Stop resisting!

But resisting temptation is hard.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Moreover, there are countries with government debt burdens that are as large, if not larger, than those on Europe s periphery the United States and Japan being prime examples. Other countries, like Norway and Switzerland, are running current account surpluses that exceed 10 of their GDP, but are resisting currency revaluation.

In particular, ownership separation in the wealthy continental European nations and the US can be linked with the role of labor inside the firm and within society. In some nations, labor greatly influences the firm through politics i.e., opposing mass lay offs and resisting restructuring plans that change the nature of the workplace.

Because of rural impoverishment and a drought earlier this year, dire hunger afflicts millions of people. Donors are rallying for food aid, but they are resisting the obvious need to help the poorest million farmers (and their four million dependents) get soil nutrients and improved seeds in time for the planting season this autumn.

On one hand, stimulus had become a dirty word even within the Obama administration well before the Republicans mid term election victory ruled out another round altogether. On the other hand, medium term consolidation will be all but impossible in America s current atmosphere of hyper partisanship, with Republicans blocking any tax increase and Democrats resisting reforms of entitlement spending.

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?