He resisted just enough to let us know there was some humanity left in the man.
He resisted calls to have the government take controlling stakes in Citigroup and Bank of America.
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Wisely, he resisted, and built a model organization for focused and worthy donation.
There was an attempt to elbow Mr Duncan Smith out of his job during the ministerial reshuffle, which he resisted.
As the jobless population grew, he resisted calls from Congress, governors, and mayors to combat unemployment by financing public service jobs.
He resisted that tendency, and was often criticized by the hard left.
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He resisted the idea of creating a separate department for nine months.
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He resisted calls to use emergency powers to take over the running of the airline, used no government money and made a tempestuous union face reality.
As he stands on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, the new archbishop might reflect on how at first he resisted the instinct to become a priest.
He said he always feared Mr Brown regarded him as a "stopgap" chancellor and describes how he resisted efforts to replace him with Ed Balls, a close ally of Mr Brown, in June 2009.
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But until late last year, he resisted efforts for Right to Work legislation, which would be the first passed by a state in two decades, and the first in the industrial Great Lakes states.
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The most important one was that record companies around the world kept suggesting that he remake the song in order to get to the hook faster, and in all case he resisted their suggestions.
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Those close to Gingrich say that's precisely the question he is considering privately, even though last week he resisted appeals by Democrats--and quiet entreaties by some in his own party--to limit the scope and the length of the inquiry.
Although Mr. Clinton was compelled in 1999 by veto-proof bipartisan majorities in Congress to sign legislation making it the policy of the U.S. to deploy a limited, effective national missile defense "as soon as technologically possible, " he resisted calls to exercise our Article XV right to withdraw so as to implement that policy.
But he has resisted age long enough to know he is fortunate.
So good that it is understandable that he has resisted moving into new markets.
He has resisted demands from Christian conservatives to make Muslim organisations ineligible for government grants.
Mr Gove said he had resisted publishing the information because the DfE "wanted to protect public-spirited volunteers from intimidation".
Mr Cameron said he had resisted attempts to further reduce the rebate.
Whitmarsh hailed the "maturity" of the 33-year-old, and admitted he had resisted calls to stop the duo competing against each other.
Diaz says that broadcasters are willing to pay for that viewer retention, though he has resisted their attempts to license the product.
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And he has resisted the delusion which would most surely condemn his party to eternal opposition, that of seeking clear blue water between himself and Mr Blair.
Given all this, it is a credit to Mr Obama that he has resisted the temptation to follow the popular mood and turn his focus entirely inward.
He strenuously resisted domestic and international pressure to preclude testing.
But Mr Field, a former welfare minister, said he had resisted pressure from Labour's whips and would be keen to have one of the referendums in his Birkenhead constituency.
But he has resisted the temptation to make wholesale changes and the return of fit-again wing Shane Horgan to replace Andrew Trimble is the only alteration to his starting XV.
While he went further than he had previously in urging Mubarak to begin a meaningful transition, he ultimately resisted urgings of White House aides to call outright for Mubarak to resign.
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