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It is therefore not surprising that they resist the lure of marriage and the trap of domesticity, for like cats they are determined not to tame their sexual energy.

* Man has free will to respond or resist: Free will is limited by God's sovereignty, but God's sovereignty allows all men the choice to accept the Gospel of Jesus through faith, simultaneously allowing all men to resist.

She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.

In this model, then, the industry is presumed to realize that they could successfully resist a change in the basic wage rate, but since such a change is the only effective means to raising prices they may, in circumstances to be spelled out in Part 2, below, find it to their advantage to allow the wage rise.

The other gods bribed Hera with a beautiful necklace nobody could resist and then finally gave in.

When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.

And he certainly couldn't have guessed that she would resist his demand for the gold or that she was not the yielding -- yes, and credible fool he had every right to expect.

* Nature of grace – Arminians believe that, through grace, God restores free will concerning salvation to all humanity, and each individual, therefore, is able either to accept the Gospel call through faith or resist it through unbelief.

In the Brunswick Manifesto, the Imperial and Prussian armies threatened retaliation on the French population if it were to resist their advance or the reinstatement of the monarchy.

He would also successfully establish the border with Nicaragua and resist an invasion from Guatemala in 1906.

However, there are twin cities which have been able to resist this final union and have maintained individual identity against the tides of history, economics and demographics.

It is the ability of a material to resist being crushed.

, has made it a practice to reveal examples of executives who try to influence news coverage, of executives who do not abuse their powers over journalists, and of journalists who resist such pressures.

But Blanche had been able to maintain a serene and assured composure in the face of her widowed mother's continued carping, had been able to resist her urgings to date anyone who offered the slightest possibility of matrimony.

Grynszpan made no attempt to resist or escape, and identified himself correctly to the French police.

Military Historian Paul Davis argued in 1999, " had the Muslims been victorious at Tours, it is difficult to suppose what population in Europe could have organized to resist them.

Work hardening creates microscopic defects in the metal, which resist further changes of shape.

This uniformity can be explained by detailed fluid-mechanical modelling, which shows that the resist moves much faster at the top of the layer than at the bottom, where viscous forces bind the resist to the wafer surface.

Ernisius wasted the abbeys resources on overly-ambitious building projects and persecuted those who attempted to resist him.

Photolithography shares some fundamental principles with photography in that the pattern in the etching resist is created by exposing it to light, either directly ( without using a mask ) or with a projected image using an optical mask.

; Assault with intent to resist arrest: The offence of assault with intent to resist arrest is created by section 38 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.

Himmler's belief that " it is in the nature of German blood to resist " led to his conclusion that Balts or Poles who resisted Germanization were racially superior to more compliant ones.

: 2 ) If a being has some active tendency, then it has some power to resist its creator.

Thus the electrons stay paired together and resist all kicks, and the electron flow as a whole ( the current through the superconductor ) will not experience resistance.

Those Greeks who chose to resist ( the ' Allies ') were defeated in the twin simultaneous battles of Thermopylae on land and Artemisium at sea.