Winning a civil resistance, a social movement, a nonviolent struggle, a community organizing campaign profoundly changes the participants.

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France's Cabinet approved a draft bill Wednesday that would give same-sex couples marriage and adoption rights in the face of fierce resistance from the Roman Catholic Church and social conservatives.

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It is chiefly resistance to change and a determination to preserve the French social model at all costs.

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While a string of temporary sexual encounters might appear glamorous on celluloid, in contemporary reality this fear of commitment and resistance to emotional intimacy might trigger worry in a normal social circle.

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It has become a symbol for everyone's struggle of the government versus the street, of the revival of the political left, of youth resistance to authority and of France holding on to its cherished social protections in a world of encroaching globalization.

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Riled by the resistance, Mr Hombach dropped his job a couple of months before the election, which the Social Democrats thumpingly lost.

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Resistance to streptomycin is spreading, but while that might make some cases incurable, the economic and social conditions for TB to spread no longer exist.

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Consumer resistance to sharing transaction-level and location-based information is going down, as evidenced in various social media sources.

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Very often, the social sciences are pressed into service to deal with this frustration, by enabling scientists to understand better how to overcome resistance to science and to drive radical change.

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