resistance
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None makes their preferences public, but polling results that have leaked suggest that all of the leading candidates have been met with at least some resistance from a P5 country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The 10-year yield touching 5.3% has been something of a resistance level lately, as MarketWatch has reported.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
For older adults who are largely inactive, even a small amount of consistent resistance training could therefore provide a practical starting point for improving physical function.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Whether that is exciting or unsettling may depend on the player, and there has been some resistance to the wider use of the technology in gaming.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
After years of internal resistance, Bertillon converted the Paris police to a new system, which he modestly called the Bertillon system.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
The most powerful ones have to be used as rarely as possible, to give bacteria fewer opportunities to develop resistances.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024
Driven by the overuse of antimicrobials, pathogens are quickly building up resistances to once-successful treatments.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
Though mosquito insecticides exist, the pests are developing resistances, and advancements are needed to reduce their numbers and slow the spread of pathogens they carry, including the malaria parasite and the Zika and dengue viruses.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
Over time, populations within any species of bacteria emerge with one, then two or more resistances to antibiotics, until we get potentially untreatable super strains.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023
That something seemed to have rules and resistances of its own, ones that did not stem from me.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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