Word: resister
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does Volcker continue to resist the temptations of the world outside Washington...
...largest beneficiaries of the week's festivities is Ferranti-Dege photo store. On the morning of Commencement, the store opens at 7:30 a.m. with extra sales help on hand and cash registers running to help the people waiting in line who forgot their firm or couldn't resist using it all up too quickly...
...behind the cause, Reagan may have elevated tax reform from the empty promise of party platforms to a true litmus test for congressional candidates. Conceivably, both parties could even find themselves competing for the high ground of reform, engaging in a refreshing contest over which is better able to resist the special-interest pressures that created all the loopholes and complexities in the first place...
...confusing signals to the Soviets; Strasbourg seemed a per- fect place to clarify American positions. Speaking on the 40th anniversary of V-E day, Reagan offered olive branches from a mailed fist. He charged that the Soviets were building first- strike nuclear weapons and vowed that the U.S. would "resist attempts by the Soviet Union to use or threaten force against others, or to impose its system on others by force." But in a conciliatory tone, Reagan said the U.S. was eager to make headway at the arms- control talks in Geneva, and that it built nuclear weapons...
...both political and personal reasons, Kohl was determined to resist changing plans for the Bitburg ceremony. As the first West German Chancellor to spend his entire adult life in the postwar era, he has made a crusade of restoring West Germany to full international legitimacy. To have backed away from Bitburg, in his view, would have been to falter in that quest. The Chancellor was also acutely aware that a change in plans seemingly dictated by Washington would have opened him to a charge of weak leadership. One public- opinion poll taken at the height of the controversy showed...