Resistance Quotations | Page 3

Most corporations have spent a very large percentage of overall income on fixing this problem. Back in 1995 and 1996, most companies were resisting any year-2000 effort.... That resistance was overcome because of people raising a flag.

Microsoft's news was put into perspective as the day moved along. The path of least resistance continues to be to the upside for this market.

We in the Islamic Jihad and resistance factions are free of commitment to this calm.

You can do this on a land treadmill but water resistance is important. If you have to walk in a pool you have to lean forward.

We must strengthen the ideological and political education of officials and raise their awareness of and resistance to the sabotaging acts of hostile domestic and foreign forces,

We have to monitor the situation to see whether resistance becomes a big problem or not.

We have more than 100,000 (Kurdish resistance fighters), and Syria also has tens of thousands. These forces can liberate Iraq with the support of the United States, with cooperation and coordination with American forces.

Using these protocols, our results were remarkably consistent throughout each of our trials. Time and again we found the same soybean varieties had the same levels of resistance or susceptibility to soybean aphid.

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

Today, through the overuse of antibiotics, many of our most deadly diseases are showing significant resistance to our best line of defense antibiotics. It's critical that we find new ways to combat these diseases and ensure that doctors and patients are aware of the impact of over-prescribing on increasing antimicrobial resistance.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

We get some resistance to rentals because Longfellow residents can't imagine who would want to come into this neighborhood to rent,

We know that American and Iraqi forces ... surrounded a house where there was fierce resistance and when the American and Iraqi forces jointly tried to storm the building the occupants blew themselves up, they committed suicide,

well-functioning markets have no innate tendency to promote excellence in any form. They offer no resistance to forces making for a descent into cultural barbarity or moral depravity.

We are on pins and needles here with some dangerous levels in the euro. This area was thought to be resistance and we are poking our head above it.

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

The path of least resistance for the Australian dollar is down. Base-metal prices are likely to continue to come off a bit as inventories rebuild.

It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out...

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

This neighborhood has a lot to do with it. It's almost a political thing, resistance to Home Depot, the big-box, giant corporation.

We are laying all our eggs in one basket. I think there will be great resistance to continue to leave those rods laying around those communities.

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

We were alarmed to find such a dramatic increase in drug resistance in circulating human influenza viruses in recent years.

We were able to significantly reduce weight gain. The insulin resistance was less, and the blood pressure fell.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.

The fact that BOJ acted in the face of resistance from certain government officials and politicians means the market must now focus its attention on the central bank rather than the government.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

Expect resistance but pray for miracles!

We used those markers to ensure we had the genes required for multi-race resistance and focused our field-testing efforts on identifying superior yield performance. We stacked the deck and were able to come up with all face cards.

When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

There has been some resistance because of work schedules but if a member wants to play, he'll find a way.

There has been quite strong resistance around 118.20 yen and as the dollar failed to clear that line, it faced selling pressure.

We're not abandoning the resistance for the government. We're putting the government in a position that strengthens and backs the Palestinian people when it comes to resistance. Our weapons will remain in our hands and so will the weapons of all the Palestinian people, with all its forces - security, military and popular forces, to confront any possible new aggression.

We thought there might be resistance from the truck drivers, but they really embraced it, and they drive out of their way to find the stuff.

There are good trends everywhere. Some people are looking for a 5 percent to 10 percent correction, partly because they think it's healthy and partly because they want a pullback so they can jump back in. But the path of least resistance remains up.

While it may seem amusing at first, this is really a very serious issue. The more people do their part to control the spread of infections, the less we have to use antibiotics, which lose their potency over time as bacteria develop resistance to them.

While hormone resistance can likely be acquired in multiple ways, it appears we may have uncovered a general contributor to hormone resistance in prostate cancer.

Fight for your highest attainable aim/ But never put up resistance in vain.

Fighting is still going on and we are facing quite a resistance from the other side,

We're talking about one extra carnation, which is one of the cheapest flowers, and nobody ever puts in just one extra flower ... That's why it's so tough. Every arrangement has to be controlled for product going into it and the people who come into this business are not numbers people. They are creative so they've got an automatic resistance to doing what they need to do to make it profitable.

While the numbers in the study are very small, the resistance and clinical failures here are very important. Resistance could mean the difference between surviving and not surviving.

We've had quite a few discover the wonderful reality to why shaving helps so much. It not just for the reduction of resistance by the removal of hair, but it also removes a whole layer of dead skin cells and allows the kids to feel the water better.

There is still some resistance in churches, there is a glass ceiling to calling women as senior pastors,

We had a good, positive day today. The market managed to consolidate itself despite some sideways moves and broke the long-wanted resistance level. Surprisingly for the eve of Carnival, the volume was good.

We've got a lot of economic news between now and the next Fed meeting in May. The path of least resistance is higher, but there's a bumpy road.

This was certainly not a worthwhile battle. What do you gain - that a few ballplayers can't play ball? This was a silly resistance and just not worth it.

We fully support an 8-year cycle as well. If the commission feels an 8-year cycle will provide that additional confidence regarding the resistance of our system we support that objective.

We repeat that the (Security Council) article pertaining to the resistance is dealt with within the framework of internal national dialogue,

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

We just had no resistance on the defensive end tonight. You can't trade baskets or think that you are going to outscore a team like the Wizards.

We expect some harsh resistance there, ... We know that some of them are armed, and we're still in dialogue with them.

We saw resistance to the initial Korean cars, but that was mainly related to quality. If the quality (of Chinese cars) is up to snuff, if the consumer feels there's value, they'll go for it.

We do not promise our people to turn Gaza into Hong Kong or Taiwan but we promise them a dignified and proud life behind the resistance in defense of their honor, their land and their pride.

Even though the white cedar has been lying on the forest floor for two years, it is still able to be sent to the mill because of its resistance to rot and decay.

Difficulty is the element, and resistance the true work of a man.

First of all, the policy is not racist. The intention is to make the league image more corporate rather than hip-hop, which has been the going trend for years, ... It's a natural outcome of what happened last year with the brawl. As for the NBA, it's probably the most progressive league with regard to its diversity practices. There may be some resistance to this policy, but (the NBA) needs to just stick to its guns.

There's pretty good evidence that the intensity of prolonged exercise suppresses certain aspects of the immune system. If someone is just doing fitness exercise, it seems like their resistance is better.

The resistance to globalization has a new quality today. You have populist leaders in developing countries who are empowered by high oil prices and you have a protectionist climate in the rich countries. The two trends reinforce each other and could slow globalization.

The resistance of a woman to a mans advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes its just a sign of experience.

There should be some really fast times. There's no wind resistance in the woods, so they really rip off some great times.

Things are getting worse. However, despite the greater instances of attacks the amount of investment in security has produced a degree of resistance to those attacks. Internal breaches of security was five per cent three years ago (today it is 30 per cent) . . . perhaps with the implementation of improved security people have a better ability to discover security breaches than in the past.

It would be nice if we could switch to a policy where we could support some kind of Iraqi resistance that would take Saddam out of the box. However there's very little support for that in the region.

The selling abated, prices stabilized and people decided the path of least resistance is up.

The sleep disordered breathing continuum predicts that you cannot have upper airway resistance syndrome or obstructive sleep apnea and not snore.

The tame retail sales outlook helped the bond market. The market rewarded that with a very strong day. Financials and technology stocks righted themselves. We're on the cusp of taking out some important resistance levels.

The species has no sting, and does not display active resistance when interfered with. I once imagined they exercised a sort of superintendence over the others; but this function is entirely unnecessary in a community where all work with a precision and regularity resembling the subordinate parts of a piece of machinery.

Terrible. I thought we started off terrible, no sense of urgency, no resistance on the defensive end. We played like the game didn't mean a thing. It's not everybody obviously, but as a team, collectively, we were awful. We looked more like we were scared than anything.

Protecting muscles at all times is a good thing. And understanding how stretching increases resistance to injury will really help to do this.

Our terminology -- Hezbollah -- is not a militia. It's a resistance ... and there is a difference between resistance and militia,

Officers came under attack. At one point, they're defending themselves. At another point, a transition is made to where they are trying to arrest a person for a felony act of violence. ... Certainly, the standard for use of force in the United States is that the officers can use force to defend themselves and/or to overcome resistance to arrest,

Now, I'm down to 162 pounds, and have dropped from taking seven meds a day, down to one med, after blood pressure and cholesterol began dropping dramatically, and my body began producing insulin, thus reversing the insulin resistance and that problem too has been eliminated,

decided to desist from all sorts of resistance and to stop our actions against the Israelis.

Coach (Jimmy) Williams said it best that these guys have a resistance to learning. We go over it every day. For some reason these guys don't absorb it. That's what has frustrated the coaches. They're good people. They're not bad kids at all. But it's been a very frustrating year for the coaching staff.

A properly designed exercise program for menopausal women should include aerobic, resistance and flexibility exercises to help rebuild essential muscle and bone mass post-menopause. Before hiring a personal trainer, be sure he or she is certified by a credible organization such as the American Council on Exercise.

As always, protectionism doesn't work. The past resistance to change has resulted in the Italian banking system being still affected by fragmentation, with plenty of small-scale players.

Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The breakthrough of the key resistance of the one-year moving average delivers a positive signal to the market and could mean further gains in coming days.

Bank of America has chosen to take the coward's route of least resistance and pay off the shakedown artists in the reparations movement.

As long as we are under occupation then resistance is our right.

That paradigm shift involves the issue of building a democratic people's resistance movement and other options available democratically and that elections are not just exclusive to the achievement of that objective.

You're talking about transgenic organisms. And there's a lot of resistance to that in the human population.

This great achievement shows that resistance against illegal demands from others can pave the way for greater achievements.

This confirms the downward trend overall, with some resistance in the Paris region. This weekend we will exercise extra vigilance in the Paris region.

This food is needed urgently. People are trying to recover from a major disaster; they are in shock and their bodily resistance will go down if they do not have enough food.

Almost every client we coach has some resistance or dislike to budgeting.

This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground.

There was heavy resistance from the other side,

There will be initial resistance to this type of service, because privacy and security are concerns.

there will be Arab popular resistance anyway and this has begun.

There was strong resistance around the 15,300 level and it made perfect sense for investors to take profit after the recent rally as there was no fresh buying incentive. The (market) sentiment is still positive.

There's all this resistance out there right now. The trend is to sell into any rally, so people feel like, 'Why should we buy?,' ... In terms of what's coming up, we have the Fed meeting tomorrow.

There's a little bit of profit taking. I think support should be around $10.28 to $10.30, and resistance will be around last night's high.

There may be some resistance developing, but the birds aren't recovering yet.

This level of resistance is quite alarming. This is saying that these resistant viruses are spreading, and that's something we have to be concerned about.