Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' resistance to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , we noted some heads ' resistance to developing their own professional understanding and their failure to engage with current educational issues . |
| 2 | And in Asturias 's Men of Maize , which deals with the expropriation of Indian communal lands for the commercial exploitation of maize , the Guatemalan Indians ' resistance to the destruction of their way of life is waged not only with arms , but also through the myths by which they preserve their concept of the world . |
| 3 | Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) . |
| 4 | When the Liberals in 1911 again proposed to grant Irish Home Rule , Sir Edward Carson , later Lord Carson , led the mainly Protestant six counties ' resistance to being a minority in a mainly Catholic Ireland — the objection still made today . |
| 5 | In the context of schooling one significant issue that is paradoxically neglected is the ‘ rationality ’ of the working-class students ' resistance to antiracist curricula and classroom discussions in so far as this resistance is bound up with a more generalized opposition to the degrees of surveillance , discipline , authoritarianism and class domination involved in conventional forms of schooling . |