Yet, precisely because of the studied resistance he will get, Tarkenton is showing the same courage post-football that he clearly demonstrated in his storied gridiron career.
Senate Republican Whip John Kyl of Arizona said Holder's speech shows that more needs to be said about how former Guantanamo detainees will be handled, and he predicted Republican resistance to Obama's plans.
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Ms. DICKSON: A group of freedom riders had come to town in August of 1961, and although Rob wasn't participating with them because he would not take a position of being passive when it came to resistance, he was supporting them, offering them housing, transportation.
He acknowledged that there is a resistance to it, but he repeatedly today, in his press conference, made the argument that this is meant to stop the terrorism that has hit Baghdad, especially in the last couple of weeks, and that it's not meant to prevent Iraqis from living their lives.
Pulling off onto the soft shoulder, he felt a certain resistance from the undercarriage.
In particular, he may encounter political resistance to the planned slowdown in public-spending growth.
Heyman, it turned out, put up no resistance when he got the news.
He joined the French resistance to combat Nazism, editing an underground newspaper, Combat.
While natural gas may be the path of least resistance, he says that experience teaches investment pros to always diversify.
He believes that such resistance will prevent consumers of organic products from enjoying many nutritional and safety improvements to come.
Chamberlain says he has encountered some resistance, in part because of Pennsylvania voters' nostalgia for the economic prosperity of the 1990s.
"We will not leave any pockets" of resistance, he told French television.
As a spy for the French Resistance, he survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead.
Murray appeared to have broken the Argentine's resistance when he recovered the deficit in game five but Del Potro hit straight back to break again and sealed the set after 90 minutes with another blistering forehand winner.
He felt a terrible inner resistance but could not feel what it was that it resisted.
"I've been on them so many times, I was getting concerned about developing antibiotic resistance, " he says.
But he also saw that blind resistance to reform would destroy America's schools.
He was repeatedly met with resistance by the Irish rearguard, while striker Rafik Djebbour also looked lively enough but was unable to carve out a proper opportunity.
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In the book, Hessel urges young people to take inspiration from the anti-Nazi resistance to which he once belonged and rally against what he saw as the newest evil: The love of money.
Ayatollah Sistani has never advocated military resistance, but he has already shown that he commands enough support in Iraq to force the US-led coalition running the country to drop or revise several political transition plans.
So the fact is he has, through his actions and despite great resistance from Republicans, extended the life of Medicare, but he knows that much more needs to be done to keep it sustainable.
He has written a memoir, "Threshold Resistance, " that tells about his career and a 9-month prison sentence he served in 2004 on an art auction price-fixing conviction.
During his years in prison he became an international symbol of resistance to apartheid.
Babel also had a shot deflected wide before he broke Luton's brave resistance in first-half injury time.
"In France, in Europe, in the world, Stephane Hessel was the spirit of resistance incarnate, " he said.
Obama has been unable to implement most of his bad policy proposals because he has met with such conservative resistance.
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Last year, when he sought to relaunch the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (better known by its Afrikaans initials, AWB), only a few hundred people turned up.
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