Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khomeini suggested that Banisadr could retain the presidency if he apologized for urging the Islamic country to "resist the dictatorship" of Islamic hardliners. "I am sorry that [he and his supporters] have dug their own graves," Khomeini told clergymen massed near his home in north Tehran. "I did not want it to happen this way. I want them now to say that they have been wrong so far in inviting people to revolt." Banisadr's reply, though respectful, fell short of contrition. "However angry you are, my honesty toward you will not be diminished. I think your treatment...
...Central Committee of the Communist Party addresses you out of a feeling of great anxiety for the fate of socialism in Poland, for Poland as a free and independent state ... From the first days of [your] crisis, we deemed it important that the [Polish] party decisively resist attempts by the enemies of socialism to take advantage of [your] difficulties. But this has not been done at all. Constant concessions to antisocialist forces and their demands have led to a retreat by the Polish party, step by step, under pressure of domestic counterrevolution...
...first, Smith says, he tried to resist the calling and the force that captured him. Coming from a scientific background, he was skeptical of the whole experience, and in any case, he was convinced that he just "wanted to say no"--marry, have two kids, live in the suburbs, and be a science professor...
Fortunately, most people-at least in this list-have had more pleasure from sex. H.G. Wells could scarcely resist any woman, and at one time induced his second wife to nurse his ailing first wife while he was seeing his mistress, Author Rebecca West. Wells was not exactly a Godfearing man, and in a letter to West he explained why: "God has no thighs and no life. When one calls to him in the silence of the night he doesn't turn over and say, 'What is the trouble, dear...
...Zesen and Rist, who counted each other as enemies, were intent on meeting. Logau's curiosity about the meeting proved even stronger than his scorn for the assembled poets. Their local surroundings were too constricting. No business transaction, however intricate, no love affair, however diverting, could resist the force that drew them together. Moreover, the peace negotiations brought increasing unrest. No one wanted to be by himself...