10 sentences with 'resistance'
Example sentences and phrases with the word resistance and other words derived from it.
• « The reason for this resistance to injury is unclear. Guiler supposes that nature endowed the species with a brain stem with an underdeveloped pain perception centre and an exceptional blood clotting ability. »
• « "It's a pity," says the zoologist. "Both the species' resistance to infection and the clotting properties of its blood deserve in-depth study." »
• « The systematic practice of this activity increases the muscular resistance of legs and arms, although it is necessary to have this strength beforehand. »
• « For example, in 1985, researchers at Harvard Medical School discovered to their disappointment that bacterial resistance to a new antibiotic had spread not only to Boston hospitals, as expected, but to much of the Western Hemisphere, from Seattle in the northwestern United States to Venezuela. »
• « But even more ominous is the evidence that resistance genes can spread to very different species of bacteria. »
• « For example, one that determines resistance to tetracycline, initially found in streptococci, has recently appeared in six other bacterial species, including the one that causes venereal disease. »
• « Pyrrhus took his remaining troops and returned to Greece. After his flight, the south was unable to put up much resistance, and all of Italy was under Roman control by 263 BC. »
• « This extraordinary power did not provoke resistance largely because the practical reforms that Augustus introduced were effective. »
• « In the provinces, there was a pattern that took place over a few generations. After being conquered by the Romans, there were often resistance movements and rebellions. These were crushed with overwhelming and brutal force, often worse than the initial invasion. »
• « There was no sustained resistance to Christianity simply because "polytheism" or "paganism" was never a unified system, and it was impossible for people who worshipped a whole range of gods to unite "against" Christianity, especially when it was the official religion of the Empire itself. »