Word: resistance
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...when it came down to it, the opportunity to move closer to family was too much to resist...
...admit that we held some high expectations for you seniors going in. You were supposed to resist traditional consulting to go into non-profit consulting. You were supposed to wrest the seat of power from old white men and give it to young white men. I was also expecting more of you to get fluent in Spanish. I guess I shouldn’t be mad, just disappointed...
FlyBy will have to resist the temptation to record ourselves singing the Indiana Jones theme music long enough to tell you about this formal. Adams House residents will swathe themselves in protective formalwear and venture into the uncharted depths of, well, Adams House. Basically, Adams is using Harrison Ford to pretend that this is different from a standard Adams House Saturday night, but we'll let it slide, with special thanks to John Williams! doo dadoot-doooooooo, doo dadoooooo?...
...population live in “shack dwellings” where large families live in cramped squalor underneath thin scrap metal with intermittent access to clean water and power. To make matters worse, the Slums Act, passed in 2006, provided legal authority to sentence those who resist eviction by up to five years in prison. Although most of these evictions occur for shack dwellings in which there are significant health and security risks it is specious for the government to not provide alternative housing—while it finances the building of stadiums...
...been drinking, 1,700 students are killed annually in alcohol related deaths, and 97,000 instances of sexual abuse are alcohol-related. Additionally, rape is more prevalent on campuses where binge drinking is common practice, as 72 percent of rape victims reported being too drunk to give consent or resist. Obviously, when not consumed in moderation, alcohol can be very dangerous...