7 sentences with 'resisted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word resisted and other words derived from it.
• « In other territories such as Hungary, however, the nobles successfully resisted the encroachment of their Habsburg rulers. »
• « Thus, even advocates of major reforms in France itself often resisted the idea of meddling in the wealth of the Caribbean slave economies. »
• « Secondly, French industry had always concentrated on high quality luxury goods, and French craftsmen fiercely resisted the spread of lower quality and less skilled jobs and goods. »
• « A comparable example was the treatment of the Herero and Nama peoples of South West Africa by the German army in the course of 1904 - 1905. When the Herero resisted the German takeover, they were systematically rounded up and left in concentration camps to starve to death, with the survivors stalked across the desert by the German army, the Germans poisoning or sealing wells and water holes as they went. »
• « Belgium was a neutral country before the war, and German planners expected Belgium to surrender quickly as German troops advanced rapidly into France. Instead, Belgian soldiers fiercely resisted the German invasion. »
• « Some countries stubbornly resisted this trend - France refused women's suffrage altogether until after the period of Nazi occupation in the Second World War - but there is no doubt that, overall, the cause of women's suffrage was helped enormously by women's patriotic service during the First World War. »
• « Alone among the monarchs of the great powers, the tsars had successfully resisted most of the forces of modernity that had fundamentally changed the political structure of the rest of Europe. »