Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salinas has yet to show any such independence in his Cabinet appointments. He was putting young, foreign-educated technocrats in top economic positions, while maintaining the intransigent old guard of PRI leaders, who will resist any attempts to weaken the party's hold over the state in key political positions...
...other governments, along with bankers and multilateral organizations, to extend the repayment periods of the existing loans, so that Mexicans are not forced to postpone badly-needed services and internal investment to pay off the debt and to keep the U.S. dollar down. Foreign governments must also resist pressure for protectionist legislation which would cripple the export possibilities of Mexico and the other debtor nations in Latin America...
...people: too dumb to see through the smoke, too emotional to resist the "hot-button" ads. As one disgusted commentator put it (on this page), "The voters are idiots...
...Wright. But all the while, Bush clung to his conviction, shared by Brady, that the economy could grow its way out of the deficit without new taxes or serious spending cuts. "Our most important priority is to keep our economy growing with low inflation," he said. "We must resist the policies that will impede that effort, such as raising taxes...
...impact. The record is timely enough to get in a neat lyrical crack about the new John Lennon biography ("I don't believe in Goldman his type like a curse/ Instant karma's gonna get him if I don't get him first"), but sufficiently tough-minded to resist looking to music for salvation. Like the Lennon song from which it draws its title, God Part II suggests only that if there is any anodyne at all for spiritual pain, it lies inward, on the far side of a troubled heart...