Word: resistive
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...Mall leading a shining, black state landau with scarlet-coated outriders. In the carriage, her pink ostrich feathers bobbing gaily, sat the Queen, King George beside her, in naval blues; and opposite their parents, riding backwards, the Princesses. As they drove past the cheering crowds, Margaret couldn't resist craning round once to see how near home they were getting...
...five months of illness, tried pleading. Said he: "Unofficial strikes are really strikes against trade unionism and against trade union democracy. If these adventures which are damaging our national economy continue . . . [they] will bring discredit upon the whole labor movement. To the trade union rank & file I would say: Resist the activities of men who bring you into conflict with your union...
...head aches that campesinos are not being paid enough for their losses, that most of the sick cattle get well by themselves, that the 'European' method of inoculating the cattle is better than the 'American' method of shooting them, that farmers should resist the 'sanitary rifles' of the troops. Now who, Juan asks, is right...
When the Japanese moved into North Borneo in January 1942, the British colony in Sandakan got its orders: "Meet the enemy, resist passively, do not cooperate. We cannot defend you. Goodbye!" Among the 80 men, women & children was Agnes Newton Keith, U.S. author whose Atlantic Monthly $5,000 prizewinning Land Below the Wind had made Borneo seem like a grim, if fascinating, place for so genteel a lady (TIME, Nov. 19, 1939). She had decided to stick it out with her two-year-old son and her British husband, who was North Borneo's Director of Agriculture. Three Came...
...troublesome teaching on the relations between church & state is largely based on Paul's words in Romans 13: "For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil."* Civil authority, however evil or foolish, said Luther, must be opposed only when it encroaches on the spiritual realm: "And you must know that from the beginning of the world there was rarely...