People always resist change, yet sustained growth relies on a continuous shift in resources to more efficient use.
The instincts of the Orthodox hierarchy to resist change and support the worldly and powerful are nothing new.
The fact is, people and political systems resist change that happens too rapidly.
Those that resist change can look forward to years of relative decline.
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Many local advertisers who have used traditional radio for years resist change.
But conservatives, especially in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will resist change.
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Bureaucracies tend to seek to maintain the status quo and resist change.
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Difficult to treat, hoarders resist change, frustrate family and aggravate landlords.
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Federal bureaucrats in deeply ingrained cultures of distrust will resist change.
It is human nature to resist change, especially change that may bring significant inconvenience to the vast majority of the people, those who are enjoying the spoils of the status quo.
Correspondents say King Abdullah has been cautiously pressing for political reforms, but in a country where conservative clerics and some members of the royal family resist change, liberalisation has been very gradual.
Older people tend to resist change.
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The ultra-Orthodox Shas party is likely to resist any change to Israel's draft law, and the pro-settlements Jewish Home party will likely resist attempts to restart talks with the current Palestinian leadership.
Banks and corporations can be expected to resist a change that would present their earnings in a less flattering light.
The United Auto Workers will fiercely resist such a change--initially.
In an answer to a question, Ms. Anderson said that she and her colleagues were very sensitive to the possibility that the organization will resist a radical change to the new agencies.
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The road ahead will be marked by huge challenges, and there will be those who resist the forces of change.
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The world is different when it's the people you know, and I do not think we will be able to resist the forces of change when our friends are dying on screen, in front of us, and we know that we could do something but have decided not to.
The issue is not whether governments will hold back the forces of change from abroad, but whether they will resist the more insistent forces of economic change in general.
In response, people generally want others' behaviour to change, but resist having their own freedoms curtailed.
That for Unilever, part of the journey is to resist becoming a bystander to climate change and other societal challenges.
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The UK is determined to resist any loss of influence, but fundamental change is on its way.
"I still resist it, and purposely, because I was so far behind a few weeks ago, and things change, " he told CNN on Sunday.
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