Word: resister
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...above is just a hypothetical scenario—any resemblance to actual people or events being, of course, entirely coincidental. I offer it to help you relate to someone who found himself in a similar situation, and didn’t have the strength to resist...
...articles in the Ec 10 sourcebook were penned by Feldstein himself and on many topics, only one side of the debate is included (such as his famous privatizing social security lecture). The course is so rife with bias that even The New York Times couldn’t resist a little Feldstein bashing: “Thousands of Harvard undergraduates have received a decidedly anti-tax, free-market-leaning introduction to economics” from Feldstein’s class...
...strategy is inherently perilous. Troops penetrating the city would face attacks from street fighters, snipers and suicide bombers. Added to the mix are "volunteers" who have traveled to Iraq from other Arab countries, notably Syria and Lebanon, to help resist the allied forces. "There are a lot of them," says a senior U.S. military official. "They seem to have been here for a while." If U.S. forces don't take control of Baghdad quickly, the city could fall into chaos...
...band has recently shifted away from the noisy, heavy distortion that characterized their style. They resist comparison to Sleater-Kinney, who also evolved out of polemic punk, saying that their move is simply a natural progression for a band whose members are maturing...
...Their claims to military prowess are limited to nocturnal raids with Special Forces soldiers to capture or kill Saddam loyalists still in An Najaf. "We try and arrest our enemies," Mussawi says, "but if they resist we have to kill them." To date, everyone appears to have resisted. One of the Special Forces soldiers on the way out to lead one of these nocturnal raids yelled out to a group of reporters, "You guys can make yourselves useful in the morning by washing the blood off our trucks...