But resisting temptation is hard.

Stop resisting!

Every wall, every concrete wall is resisting the stresses and supporting the building.

Life is temptation. It's all about yielding, resisting, yes, no, now, later, impulsive, reflective, present focus and future focus.

This finds expression in resisting the pressure to conform to a changing society.

Well, I was born in South Africa and my parents were imprisoned for resisting the racist regime.

However, realistic objectives should be set while resisting the temptation to impose solutions that lacked universal support.

Spanish associations working in solidarity with the Saharan cause had had some success, resisting pressure exerted on them.

Between August and September 2003, the Xinye County Zero Plan Office conducted training sessions on resisting abduction for 33 middle school principals.

In any case, protecting exports by resisting euro appreciation or, more precisely, dollar depreciation is a poor way to promote economic growth. A strong currency keeps both inflation and ECB interest hikes at bay.

Well resisting temptation is hard, as the 19th century English economist Nassau William Senior said, To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.

One budget area can and should be cut military spending. But even if America s wildly excessive military budget is cut sharply (and politicians in both parties are resisting that), there will still be a need for new taxes.

Understandably, there are signs that younger politicians of all parties are resisting this development. Indeed, a party of the young might well have better prospects than the Greys.

Unfortunately, the medical community is resisting the use of pharmacogenomic data in clinical practice, despite regulatory authorities recommendations for many drugs. PBMs and consumer genomic companies can be a positive force by facilitating or advancing the use of such data.

Gansu s challenges range from modernizing its heavy industries to resisting desertification and the encroachment of the Gobi desert. While it has been making slow but steady progress, its future is clouded by worsening water shortages though it straddles the Yellow River, the water table is dwindling fast.

Palin, 29, of Wasilla, Alaska, was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, interfering with a report of domestic violence and resisting arrest, according to a report released Saturday by Alaska State Troopers.

The US, too, would be wise to stop resisting the fact that the world is changing. The US Congress has yet to ratify a 2010 agreement providing China and other large emerging economies greater voting power in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

In Ukraine, political forces resisting closer strategic links to the West have gained ground. And the Kremlin is aggressively portraying the planned establishment of a modest US missile defense installation in Poland and the Czech Republic as a threat to Russia s vital security interests.

Why are European Union leaders resisting the referendum and refusing even to extend by a few days the June 30 deadline for Greece s next payment to the IMF? Isn t Europe all about democracy?

To be sure, Germany is justified in rejecting narrow minded calls by France and Italy for unconditional fiscal expansion. After all, fiscal stimulus can work only if it supports private investment and is accompanied by much more ambitious structural reforms the kind of reforms that France and Italy are currently resisting.

That sacrifice is particularly visible in today s Congress led Indian government, which relies on support from the Left Front Communist Party. India s communists (unlike China s) remain ideologically driven, and the Left Front is resisting privatization of state assets, lifting caps on foreign direct investment, and creating a more flexible labor market.

But the second and third reasons look shaky. Those with access to finance appear to be capable of resisting the urge to locate production in poor low wage parts of the world (China aside).

At first it was the European Commission that drew criticism for its slowness in making proposals to rally national governments and their policymakers. Now it is the member states that are resisting the urgent need for a coordinated EU wide policy response to the deepening crisis.

For example, Ryan supported George W. Bush s spending spree. He also supports maintaining defense spending at or near its current level resisting the cuts that were put in place under the Budget Control Act of 2011.

They needed to improve access to education, health care and social protection, notably by giving higher priority to the financing of key social services, resisting strong pressure to decrease government spending in favour of the private sector.

Koizumi s approach was to defy the LDP s leaders by appealing over their heads directly to the electorate. He successfully portrayed himself as a rebel resisting the LDP s old guard, actually purging some of them, in defense of ordinary Japanese.

According to reliable reports, leaders of dissident factions in conjunction with other Congolese dissidents have held operational meetings in Uganda and Rwanda for the purpose of resisting the transition and peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

I emphasized the importance of a dialogue among civilizations, based on the convergence of values embedded in the common heritage of human rights, as critical for resisting such extremist ideologies, and thus, preventing their transgression on women's human rights.

In this regard, I have insisted on the importance of using legal frameworks to ensure that women's rights are respected, protected and fulfilled, and resisting all attempts to dilute women's rights, in particular internationally recognized sexual and reproductive rights.

In relation to political economy issues, he identified two key questions (a) how to increase the bargaining power of disadvantaged stakeholders in the value chain, and (b) whether TNCs were working with, or at least not resisting, activist and advocacy groups.

Israel s leaders seem intent on gaining time both tactically, by resisting the soft pressure of US President Barack Obama s administration, and strategically, by preparing the country for a new world in which emerging powers such as China play an increasingly important role.

But they have to be open to cooperation and coordination with others. We must be vigilant in resisting the start of a trend reminiscent of developments in the early years of the twentieth century a trend that quickly led to global disaster.

But Russia is no match for the US militarily and no match for China economically, and its soft power is virtually non existent. If Russia can provoke America whether by granting political asylum to the traitor Edward Snowden, for example, or by resisting Western diplomacy in the Middle East it is not because it has become a great power once again, but simply because America is no longer the great power that it once was.

But the fact that several Asian and emerging market countries are resisting this decline by buying dollars is putting inordinate pressures on the more flexible currencies, such as the euro and the Canadian dollar, which are trading at record levels. (What are the Chinese planning to do with all their ever growing 1.4 trillion in reserves?

In this sense, The Lucifer Effect is a celebration of the human capacity to choose kindness over cruelty, caring over indifference, creativity over destructiveness, and heroism over villainy. At the end of my narrative, I invite readers to consider fundamental strategies of resisting and challenging unwanted social influences, and I introduce the notion of the banality of heroism.

There has already been for you a Sign in the two armies that met (in combat) One was fighting in the cause of Allah, the other resisting Allah these saw with their own eyes Twice their number. But Allah doth support with His aid whom He pleaseth. In this is a warning for such as have eyes to see.

There has already been for you a Sign in the two armies that met (in combat) One was fighting in the cause of Allah, the other resisting Allah these saw with their own eyes Twice their number. But Allah doth support with His aid whom He pleaseth. In this is a warning for such as have eyes to see.

But it isn t just importers who are blocking real devaluation. Unions, too, are resisting the necessary wage reductions, and public and private debtors fear the prospect of insolvency if their assets and revenues are assessed at a lower value, while their debts remain unchanged.

It happened in Palestine, and it could well happen in Egypt if free and fair free elections were held. As a result, Arab nationalist governments feel justified in resisting serious political reform and vindicated in repressing all domestic opposition, particularly the swelling Islamist movements.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, which chairs the G 20 this year, has asked for a review of the governance of the financial system. In response, the existing bodies are vigorously defending their autonomy, resisting any attempts to impose on them a modicum of coordination and discipline.

Belarus was ready to cooperate fully with the United Nations Security Council committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), and it welcomed other international instruments such as the Proliferation Security Initiative and the Russian Federation's initiative for the development of nuclear technologies capable of resisting proliferation.

Having the army uproot Jewish settlements with inevitable scenes of settlers resisting and being dragged off will be a traumatic event for the country. The plan also entails considerable strategic risks, which, probably more than the prospect of uprooted settlements, account for the large no by Likud members.

Furthermore, with regional tensions high, the economic impact of the removal of sanctions turns out to be negligible, while conservatives gain ground in resisting reform. Rouhani and his allies are unable to offer ordinary Iranians economic hope a failure that causes them to lose both the legislative and presidential elections.

In other words, Greece's new government must now try to convince its European partners that it deserves more financial support, while pushing for a reduction of its existing debt and resisting the austerity policies on which previous lending was conditioned. For Syriza and its voters, the political honeymoon could be short.

The agreement would also have provisions for intellectual property protection and what are dubbed the social and environmental issues. In short, the TPP s core agenda will offer the region a Doha Round type agreement that includes the social and environmental agenda that developing economies have been resisting within the WTO.