Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parties have protested, often violently, electoral fraud. But if a new election deal was struck, it immediately backfired. Worried about the threat to their dominance, p.r.i. supporters in Tabasco took to the streets, blocking highways and clashing with p.r.d. militants.The demonstrators urged the p.r.i. state governor Roberto Madrazo to resist any effort to remove him from office...
...singer identified in the program as "Carmelita Della Vaca- Browne," a burly Puerto Rican ex-soprano whose voice (since she gave birth to triplets) has darkened to a take-no-prisoners mezzo. In the role of the doomed warrior Radames, all-American tenor "Tex Stolto" can't seem to resist handing out 8-by-10 glossies of himself. And as Ramfis, the high priest, Russian bass "Boris Pistoff" doffs his headdress to reveal himself as a Conehead...
Both teams found that within two weeks, all of the AIDS virus in the body were mutated to resist the drug. From this, the researchers were able to calculate that 100 million to one billion new virus particles are produced every...
...House. And the vast, multimillion-dollar network of political and charitable organizations that he has built to spread his gospel could be a difficult target to defend. All of them draw their financial support from overlapping groups of business executives and other wealthy supporters whose identities Gingrich has resisted disclosing until recently. The donors range from restaurant and bar operators to the owners of vast mail-order operations. They will now be looking to the Republican Congress to stave off a hike in the minimum wage, resist health-insurance mandates and block any ideas to shift taxes from income...
...human nature to resist change, to prefer consistency over tumult. Name changes are not so much in our distant past; in 1984, South House became Cabot House, and residents there adjusted to it without the militant-sounding statements that are flying out of Pforzheimer...