Word: resistible
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...want to add to it," Denis Muzet, director of the Médiascopie Institute which tracks public opinion, told Le Monde. "But now there's real anger. Banks have announced positive results for 2008 after the state extended over $26 billion in aid to them - even as some bankers resist government demands for something in return by trying to hang on to their bonuses. That feeds a feeling of profound injustice in public opinion that could give rise to a revolt...
...monthly dose of the common antidrinking drug naltrexone - a medication that currently must be taken every day to be effective. But naltrexone is controversial because for some, it doesn't do anything to reduce the craving for alcohol until those addicts actually take a drink, whereupon it helps them resist taking more - a twisted bit of physiological irony if ever there was one. Twelve-step believers say the only proper response to alcoholism is total abstinence, and that a drug that allows you to drink a little puts you on a slippery slope to drinking...
...rhetoric before the Senate, understands this better than most. He spent much of his career in the 1990s at the Treasury Department working on international issues, with particular emphasis on Asia. He understands how complex the bilateral economic relationship with China is and will probably be inclined to resist pressure to formally cite Beijing as a bad actor on currency. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...confronting so clearly all that frightens and threatens us that Obama could issue his challenge. "In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given," he said. "It must be earned." To do that, he said, America must dismiss the cynical, resist the easy but futile fix, "reform bad habits and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government." (See pictures of celebrities at the Inauguration...
...America has gone more than seven years without another terrorist attack on our soil." And he pleaded with the country to maintain the focus. "America did nothing to seek or deserve this conflict," he said. "But we have been given solemn responsibilities, and we must meet them. We must resist complacency. We must keep our resolve. And we must never let down our guard...