Resists

The mind – the brain – resists this, and so you actually consciously choose the easy, the familiar. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Valentin resists his attraction to a fellow Tolstoyan, then falls deeply in love with her. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While it's fair to say McCain resists talking about his personal faith and his immediate family, biography has been essential to his political identity, and to this campaign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Alexander Daza, or el Niño, is the evangelical pastor and the leader of the community, a label he resists. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In my view, the correct way to fill in the blank of the sentence "nationalization ___ cartels" is not with the word "resists" but with the word "fosters." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Which I suppose it must, because there must be something that fundamentally "resists" God in order for there to be a creation at all -- just as an artist cannot make a sculpture out of water, only a hard and resistant substance that "fights against" him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This means that if you were to get rain on the watch of fell in a pool with it and got out, there is a probability that water would not get in (it "resists" water) but if you dive with it that resistance likely will be overcome.). ❋ Unknown (2010)

In addition, the tread compound resists tread block chipping, chunking, and tearing, especially during heavy loading and towing applications. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Police are able to use reasonable force to obtain fingerprints from a person who resists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet like his mother, he finds the other both horrifying and compelling, resists his imprisonment yet learns from it, and comes to love some of his captors. ❋ Erika Nelson (2009)

This oil "is a highly durable material that resists further dissipation," MacDonald concluded. ❋ Joel Achenbach (2010)

Any lawyer who resists this temptation but instead chooses to argue the point – who chooses the long way around, to try to achieve a better outcome for the client – is my favorite lawyer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whenever any one of us resists opening a door, we are shrinking the pie instead of expanding it for everyone. ❋ Mariela Dabbah (2011)

Leavitt tells a haunted yet revelatory tale and resists the urge to end it neatly - instead it has the unmistakable agony and glory of real people living real lives. ❋ Holly Cara Price (2011)

Haunted by a failed relationship in his past, Will resists the advances of a beautiful fellow teacher. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

What differentiates Jobs from many is that most of the world lives and functions in silos, defends them and resists anything that tries to pull them out of them. ❋ M.D. Mark Goulston (2011)

Though Ms. Sigman boasts a strikingly athletic form, her character never resists the often intimidating gang members—a passivity and stoicism that have prompted criticism of Mr. Naranjo's dramatic choices. ❋ Steve Dollar (2012)

Moscow also resists putting any new pressure on Iran's nuclear bomb makers. ❋ Unknown (2011)