Resisting the temptation to improve on Chekhov, he has produced an attractively straightforward version of the comic story ' Vint ,' in which a group of civil servants give an original twist to a popular card game.

Resisting all attacks, they held out against increasing odds until nightfall.

Resisting and co-operating iwi both found that the Pākehā desire for land remained.

Resisting the much larger Axis forces for 16 days was certainly an enormous achievement of Kœnig and his men.

Resisting unlawful arrest is a possible justification for breaking the law.

Resisting calls for the dangerously leaning structure to be demolished, from 1990 to 1995 the ruins were excavated under the auspices of the Instituto Cultural de Macau to study its historic past.

Resisting his father's plan for him to train to follow in his footsteps, Dubois, encouraged by his teachers, decided in 1877 to study medicine at the University of Amsterdam.

Resisting Russell ’ s call for an immediate cabinet meeting, Palmerston again called on the Law Officers to prepare a brief based on the actual events that had occurred, and an emergency cabinet meeting was scheduled two days later for Friday, November 29.

“ Resisting the Forces of Death ” & “' No ' to the Vietnam War ” in Liberating Faith: Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom.

* General Theory of Optimal Trajectory for Rocket Flight in a Resisting Medium

* Stark, Christine and Rebecca Whisnant ; Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution And Pornography, Spinifex Press, 2004, ISBN 1-876756-49-7

McCarthy had been training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Rorion at the Gracie Academy in Torrance, CA in the early 1990s, and was designated a certified " GRAPLE " ( Gracie Resisting Attack Procedures for Law Enforcement ) instructor by the Gracie Academy in December 1993.

*" Prostitution for everyone: Feminism, globalisation and the ' sex ' industry ", essay published in Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution And Pornography ( ISBN 1-876756-49-7 )

Resisting repatriation during World War II, she stayed in Bangkok and continued to work for her school.

* Resisting the Meaningless Simon Critchley talks power, politics, and the problem of nihilism with Tom Cutterham for Cherwell. org

Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media, Peter Lang.

Resisting censorship and exile, the friars of San Marco fostered a cult of " the three martyrs " and venerated Savonarola as a saint.

Resisting ideolologies involves resisting the conceptual metaphors which an ideology adopts and imposes upon us, Goatly argues, following George Lakoff and his critique of conceptual metaphors in contemporary politics.

Resisting the arrival of the god, Lycurgus had pursued all of Dionysus ' followers, the Maenads, with an ox-goad and imprisoned them ; Dionysus was forced to flee to the undersea grotto of Thetis the sea nymph.

Resisting systems in the present, and creating alternative, sustainable ways of living are often deemed more important than protesting.

Resisting the impulse to throw the wretched thing across the room, I read on.

In a 2007 speech, " Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire ", Pilger described his experience with executives of the American Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) who refused to screen Year Zero, which, according to Pilger, has never been broadcast in the USA.

* Freedom Next Time: Filmmaker & Journalist John Pilger on Propaganda, the Press, Censorship and Resisting the American Empire, Democracy Now !, 7 August 2007.

* Resisting McDonaldization, ed.

* Canagarajah, A. Suresh ( 1999 ), Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching, Oxford University Press.

Resisting ecclesiastical censure, he left Jena ( Feb. 1562 ) to found an academy at Regensburg.

Resisting golf tourism and golf's expansion has become an objective of some land-reform movements, especially in the Philippines and Indonesia.

Resisting Pitt's attempt to draw him into alliance against the ministry he had quit, Yorke maintained, in a speech that extorted the highest eulogy from Horace Walpole, that parliamentary privilege did not extend to cases of libel ; though he agreed with Pitt in condemning the principle of general warrants.

Resisting the Discourse of Critical Discourse Analysis: Reopening a Hong Kong Case Study.

* Brysac, Shareen Blair ( 2000 ) Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra Oxford University Press.

His motivation comes from the overwhelming sense that he is predetermined to kill the old woman by some power outside of himself.

Only four years out of law school, he had committed himself to an overwhelming smorgasbord of editorial projects, the major ones in conjunction with friend, business associate and later U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper.

In October 1798, the local Ottoman governor Ali Pasha Tepelena – having great ambitions to make himself a semi-independent ruler – attacked Preveza with an overwhelming force.

He said that he, himself, had never deceived the public – it would never have occurred to him to do so, and that he was sure that the same applied to the " overwhelming majority " of BBC staff.

Anderson describes himself as " a socialist with strong, nay overwhelming, anarchist instincts.

During the Battle of Sarikamish in December 1914, he commanded a cavalry squadron within the corps led by General Gabashvili and distinguished himself by capturing and defending the strategic " Eagle's Nest " against the overwhelming Ottoman troops.

At the story's climax, Tetsu discovers himself and the overwhelming responsibility the power he is searching for holds.

In the wake of this overwhelming transformation, the Quintessons had invaded the planet, but they were not the only threat to Cybertron's safety: The Wreckers were also faced with Cryotek, who had used the legendary Divine Light to tap into the power of Primus and transform himself into a living god.

On 24 August 1914 during the action of Elouges, Belgium, when the flank guard was attacked by a German corps, Major Alexander handled his battery against overwhelming odds with such conspicuous success that all his guns were saved notwithstanding that they had to be withdrawn by hand by himself and volunteers led by a Captain ( Francis Octavus Grenfell ) of the 9th Lancers.

The Union advance was disorganized but effective ; finally overwhelming and scattering what ought to have been, as General Grant himself believed, an impregnable Confederate line.

" He discards Leo's confession in spite of the overwhelming evidence including: Leo's fingerprints ; a video of Leo committing the murder ; photographs that Leo took of himself before, during, and after killing Laura, and many letters Leo sent personally to Cooper confessing to the murder that Cooper regarded simply as " another piece of the puzzle.

He was however forced back by overwhelming numbers of British troops and was pushed back with only some 20 men left, all, including himself, wounded.

The drawback of being one with everything was that Rayner could no longer sleep or separate himself from the overwhelming responsibilities these abilities imposed upon him.

He feels himself, in essence, as belonging to a different race from that of the overwhelming majority of his contemporaries.

Sigmund Freud himself experienced fleeting derealization when visiting the Acropolis in person ; having read about it for years and knowing it existed, seeing the real thing was overwhelming and proved difficult for him to perceive it as real.

Due to the overwhelming success of this album, Levine found himself being courted by many English A & R men, eager for him to work with their artists.

As she dies, a burst of light engulfs Tommy and when vision is restored, Tommy finds himself inside the Mother's den with reams of data overwhelming him, making him numb with power.

Although Pushkin himself denied authorship of Gavriiliada, an overwhelming majority of scientists agree that he indeed wrote the poem.