Word: resister
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...ignored a U.N. call for a cease-fire in the country's month-old civil war with the secessionist South. The North shelled Aden, headquarters for the southern rebels, and tightened the circle around the port city. Accusing Iraq and Sudan of reinforcing the North, defiant southerners vowed to resist...
...Jackie was in no way a journalist, what with her ineptness at Q&A repartee and her whispery, little-girl voice, but still she made a success of it. Image counted a lot. Who could resist this willowy, wide-eyed girl with her clumsy hold on the camera and her wavy hair pulled back into a businesslike...
Much of the book's impact may be explained on these grounds alone: Who can resist an unauthorized peek at the inner life of a legend? Le Premier Homme has a confessional feeling, unmediated by any of the distancing ironies and disguises Camus employed in works published during his lifetime. It cannot be known whether he was reaching for the looser and more lush writing style of this narrative or whether he did not live to pare away what he might have considered its excesses. But his hero, Jacques Cormery (the surname of Camus's paternal grandmother), is indistinguishable from...
...Lennar for the destruction wrought by Hurricane Andrew at the properties investigated, it would not be fair or accurate." Not even Homestead Air Force Base could withstand the record 120-mile-an-hour winds of the unprecedented hurricane, and Florida Power and Light's concrete utility poles, built to resist 165-mile-an-hour winds, snapped like toothpicks...
...planning something like a law-and-order crackdown: he was an advocate of the state of emergency that was imposed in Natal province last month, and he has been talking more and more about enacting strict gun- control regulations. Right-wing whites and township gangs can be expected to resist them...