Word: resister
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...believe that the policy we are carrying out with the Soviet Union has put us in the best position to resist Soviet pressures and in the best position to exploit possibilities of positive developments in Soviet policies. Now, however, the debate gets carried on as if we are giving away things to the Soviet Union. Where has the Soviet Union made a unilateral gain...
Thurber is a classic American wit, and if this production works it is because of his writing. Like his stories it is flawed and evasive, but who can resist the disarming deviance of the little woman who smiles blandly at the audience and says "I never dreamed their union had been blessed with issue till their daughter stabbed the superintendent of schools...
...people of New York are not worth helping, but Burns and the Federal Reserve are ready to help out the major commercial banks in case of default. And last week, just after blasting New York, Ford celebrated the 200th birthday of the U.S. Navy by announcing he would resist all efforts to cut defense spending. No item in the budget is more essential than that, he said...
That same day he took part in the kind of event that is better suited to Congressmen than Presidents. As the honorary grand marshal, Ford rode in the Mountain State Festival parade in Elkins, W. Va. (pop. 8,287). Three times along the parade route Ford could not resist the urge to leave his limousine and pump hands. The President's good friends as well as his critics might fairly ask whether right now Jerry Ford should take part in a festival, no matter how entertaining it might...
...speakers at the rally encouraged students to use political pressure to resist the budget cuts. The crowd responded with shouts of "eat the rich" and "they say cutback, we say fight back...