Policymakers' overwhelming (and misguided) focus on budget austerity is facing increasing resistance.

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The government at Westminster, facing increasing resistance from anti-turbine campaigners, needs Scotland to meet its ambitious renewables targets if the UK is to meet more modest ones.

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The change followed a Journal investigation in 2012 revealing that India, for years, had ignored evidence of increasing drug resistance and today likely has far higher rates of resistant TB than officially reported.

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Other adapters can do some of that, but its final trick is the piece de resistance: increasing the speed of a lens by a full stop.

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Resistance to drug treatments is an increasing problem.

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Resistance to the existing flu drugs Relenza and Tamiflu is becoming an increasing problem, largely due to their overuse.

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