#resisted

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#broken #had #his #johnson #man

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#dies #freedom #grows #resisted #wherever

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#continuation #happenings #resisted #which

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years. ↗

— Ed Markey

#bush #congress #dramatically #economy #five

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted. ↗

— Bode Miller

#boarding #boarding school #coaches #good #had

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past. ↗

— Tom Peters

#energy #enthusiasm #in the past #learn #must

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#faith #precisely #resisted

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#before #better #clumsy #enemy #force

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#based #cultural #democratic #governments #human