Resisted

Marlin resisted the urge to equip it with wonderful new features that are needed as much as a big zit right where your collar meets your neck. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Boston coach Doc Rivers again resisted the urge to play Garnett for a full game, limiting him to eight-minute spurts in the first and third quarters. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But McCain resisted the label, and instead found ways to suck that were completely independent of his ties to Bush. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The audience also was told that in the day, the Rascals 'label resisted releasing "People Gotta Be Free" because they were afraid of the consequences of their artists getting too socially conscious. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet such affiliations were an inestimable boon when, not long ago, all else seemed lost; when, as Britain resisted the German fury for an entire year alone, she did much to preserve our free world order. ❋ Unknown (1950)

Nothing seemed to have been done for it but what the razor and the sponge, the tooth-brush and the looking-glass could officiously do; it had in short resisted any possibly finer attrition at the hands of fifty years of offered experience. ❋ Henry James (1879)

Obedience to a law which cannot be resisted is not the service of the heart – not the highest tribute to the Creator's glory. ❋ Unknown (1857)

They haven't impacted them as much as they could have because the labels resisted them. ❋ Greg Swan (2010)

He calls the strategy "Project Symphony"—a play, on synergy, a word he resisted because it evoked cost-cutting and had become a derided term. ❋ Jessica E. Vascellaro (2011)

Infused with the same hope that fueled his presidential campaign this one tiny phrase resisted the dire warnings of economic, environmental and terrorist apocalypses that have so dominated American thinking for the last several years. ❋ Jason Derr (2011)

And he feels that that is a seduction that has to be resisted, that is that Christianity is predicated, so to speak, and on the existence of absolute truth. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The tributary kings of Uther, and the most famous knights, successively put their strength to the proof, but the miraculous sword resisted all their efforts. ❋ Thomas Bulfinch (1831)

They resisted, which is too bad: This is a useful quickie rundown of his achievements thus far but it won't get one-tenth the views on ❋ Unknown (2010)

The major labels resisted the digital revolution at first, but Apple finally won them over through high-margin monetization of prerecorded music. ❋ Rick Aristotle Munarriz (2010)

"The pressure to modernise is being resisted, which is crazy because they need to modernise." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ralston says that the record labels resisted this at first ( "why should we give them access to something they stole"), but eventually came to the conclusion that users weren't going to buy something they'd already downloaded. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"I kind of resisted the implication that businesses have a moral responsibility to hire people," Harold Jackson , chief executive of Buffalo Supply, Inc., a medical-supply business based near Denver, said after the president's remarks. ❋ Elizabeth Williamson (2011)

Turley added that he has "resisted" any emphasis on "how high up the ranks" prosecutions should go, because it "misses the point": ❋ Unknown (2010)