Word: resisted
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...Sacks is especially engaging at a time of highly specialized, technical and increasingly impersonal medicine. Who, these days, wouldn't want a warm, erudite physician, one who might prescribe a cat as well as a CAT scan? Who could resist bragging about My Doctor the Writer? Certainly not those whose lives he honors in his books...
...amendment. The loss was also the first real sign that major provisions of a contract born in the House, where the budget amendment breezed through in two days, could meet death at an early age in the Senate. And for once Democratic leaders who had been struggling to resist the Republicans were able to frame an issue their way, even if they had to resort to the oldest liberal scare tactic. Against the irresistible force of budget-balancing sentiment they placed the immovable object of Social Security's sanctity...
Levy makes this point well and repeatedly. Crisply-uniformed UN troops pass by Bosnians freezing in the mountains and air-drop relief food into an icy river. Some UN officers struggle with the cruelty of this position, but most are unable or unwilling to resist policy defined by distant leaders. Bosnian military leaders, many former intellectuals or white-collar workers, speak with guarded firmness about the fighting, appearing at worst as misplaced men, but mostly seeming deeply and quietly courageous...
Hopefully, Harvard will continue to resist ethnic studies, which would be going in exactly the wrong direction. Thomas C. Horne...
After reading an editorial in the New YorkTimes by Havel, Huth was encouraged to write aresponse which was recently completed and will beprinted in a Czech national science journal. "Icouldn't resist the opportunity to write aresponse that would be printed in the Czechrepublic," he says...