Word: resister
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Acknowledging current isolationist sentiments. Lake called on the U.S. to resist the tendency. "Today we again face the old impulses to retreat. Our interests demand that we check that impulse...
With peace breaking out all over Northern Ireland, British PM John Major apparently couldn't resist the overtures of the Irish Republican Army and agreed to start holding talks with the IRA's Sinn Fein. Earlier on, Major had insisted that the IRA clarify that their Aug. 31 cease-fire was indeed permanent -- a stance that was widely viewed as unnecessarily obstinate and taken to placate pro-British loyalists. When the IRA's chief antagonists, the Ulster Loyalists, followed up with a similar declaration on Oct. 13, "that gave Major the signal that he could go ahead," says TIME London...
...them came from any side of politics except the underside. It seems that a claim to being "a good Christian"--or at least a repentant one--has become more important than any political savvy or competence. Of course, tens of millions of Americans bear this credential and amazingly resist running for high office. Maybe you also have to write a book, like North, but we have yet to see whether that will work for Dan Quayle...
There's something indulgent about eating greasy pizza, fries or steak and cheese subs. You know it'll kill you, but, like THE Breakfast Sandwich, it's too satisfying to resist...
...down," said Bengt Erik Stenmark, Sweden's maritime safety director. Investigations into the disaster could result in demands for changes to the roughly 4,500 similar ships in operation worldwide. Some specialists advocate installing dividers in the car decks to check the force of water flowing inside. But operators resist such baffles because they would interfere with the efficient movement of vehicles...