The Resisted Rise of Segolene Royal

Those who are terrorists for some, are resistance for others.

Ideas for carbon taxes run into resistance everywhere.

Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.

Yet the reinterpretation has faced some resistance at home and abroad.

Had Clinton tried to send American troops, he would have encountered stiff resistance in the US Congress.

While implementation will be a long struggle, with occasionally fierce resistance, key reforms are already underway.

In other areas, such as science and industry, the impulse to impose one s views on the world encounters the resistance of external reality.

Many Palestinians believe that Israel inflicted this damage on Gaza to drive a wedge between the people and the resistance.

And naturally, I encounter a lot of resistance, because it's considered to be anti intellectual and counter to serious learning.

The workers and campaigners were met with a violent confrontation in which many workers were beaten suffering serious injury.

Around midnight on 26 July, police say they raided the block in Kalyanpur and faced resistance from those inside.

With a perfect conductor (i.e., zero resistivity), all of the current would flow at the surface, with no penetration into and through the conductor.

This deflationary tendency will create serious economic problems, which do not necessarily result from deflation as such, but may stem from a natural resistance to deflation. In each country, a number of prices are rigid, because sellers resist selling cheaper, as low productivity gains and wage defense by unions leave no margin for lower prices.

This deflationary tendency will create serious economic problems, which do not necessarily result from deflation as such, but may stem from a natural resistance to deflation.

Then the Israeli tanks that had been shooting up the trench lines crossed over them to enter the box, and finish off Egyptian resistance.

it may be a passive resistance against a state religious bureaucracy whose role in the moral policing of society has become well known and notorious.

The people of Yemen proved to be people of resilience and steadfastness and keep impressing the world with their civil peaceful resistance in their struggle for freedom, democracy and building a new Yemen.

The real problem is that China s authoritarian system faces little opposition when it decides to bulldoze a shantytown that stands in the way of a new airport.

During this time, government crackdowns spurred as much by infighting within the Turkish state as broadening resistance to AKP rule, have come to define the country in the eyes of the international media.

Unfortunately, Europe is so divided nowadays that the ability to achieve such an outcome is not promising, with new initiatives along these lines facing increasing political resistance.

Rousseff proposed the reform after the June 2013 protests in a response to the demands of those in the streets, but has encountered a lot of resistance in partisan and intellectual circles.

However, the new law outlining the rules for banning content has run into resistance from national Ukrainian television channels that are already looking for loopholes in the new legislation.

In all of these cases, economic failure and a lack of opportunities and hope for the poor and young are fueling political and religious extremism, resentment of the West and, in some cases, outright terrorism.

Especially in view of the Iraq experience, Putin has won substantial public sympathy by arguing that opposition to Western democracy promotion is resistance not to democracy itself, but to Western intervention against Russian sovereign democracy.

Amanullah Khan, who became the country's Emir in 1919 saw his own ambitious reform agenda face fierce opposition in the form of Mullah e Lang s revolt, strongly backed by clerical networks.

Wherever you encounter resistance in Latin America, you find people working to change perceptions and reject the definitions propagated by fear, isolation, and the kind of reductive headlines found too often in the mass media.

But it, too, will have to face strong opposition from domestic agricultural interest groups and manufacturing sectors, which might mobilize even more strongly than they did in opposing the FTA with the US.

Similarly, the accounting problems with executive stock options were recognized by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, but again early efforts at reform met with resistance, from the obvious sources.

Worse still, when American soldiers encountered resistance, they employed methods invading homes and mistreating prisoners that alienated and humiliated the population, generating resentment and rage.

If this means a special status at the expense of other Middle East powers such as Egypt or the Gulf states, Obama might run into strong opposition from America s traditional allies in the region.

Mexicans are rallying on Twitter in support of a film called The Perfect Dictatorship from director Luis Estrada under the hashtag NoALaCensura (No to Censorship) for fear that the release of the biting satire of Mexico's politics could encounter resistance from authorities.

Sergio García, Armando's brother, lamented the role played by the National Human Rights Commission, which had previously listened to the worries of a peaceful resistance group that has spent more than seven months fighting against the Autovan Teya motorway, affiliated with Grupo Higa.

They took him to a hidden place in Naguanagua (anther neighbourhood in the city) where he was gagged, tortured, beaten and had his hair shaven while receiving death threats for being allegedly linked to the resistance . They wanted to interrogate him to find information about the leaders of the protests against Nicolás Maduro's government. They suffocated him with a pillow.