Example sentences of "'s resistance to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At low levels of contamination , organochlorines such as PCBs may lower an animal 's resistance to infection , and can be the cause of mass deaths . |
| 2 | This same knee-jerk reaction lies behind people 's resistance to making retirement flexible . |
| 3 | Measures to increase people 's resistance to infection are also important in prevention , and it is in this context that immunisation has played such a major role ( p. 82 ) . |
| 4 | Radiation drastically reduced the body 's resistance to infection . |
| 5 | Very often , a horse 's resistance to infection can be weakened by the constant pressure exerted during training , competition or hunting . |
| 6 | As we saw when we discussed the principles of homoeopathy , treatment by similars aims at improving the body 's resistance to diseases and expects to cure from within , out . |
| 7 | Tobacco kills vitamins and lowers the body 's resistance to disease , particularly to air-borne viruses — a side effect you should be aware of if you are cutting down on body-building food intake — and it also has a depressant effect on appetite . |
| 8 | The Labour Ministers fully supported Churchill 's resistance to the opening of a Second Front . |
| 9 | Bourjois ' Cil 18 Heures Mascara , £3.79 , for instance contains an ingredient called a hydrophobic polymer which improves the mascara 's resistance to water , whilst Lancôme 's Definicil Mascara , £12 , has a brush made of a substance called Rislan designed to be extra gentle on your lashes . |
| 10 | The NME 's resistance to the move was legendary and was reported in The Guardian of May 12 , 1976 , an article by Robin Denselow detailing the fact that the journalists had removed ceiling panels , daubed graffiti and generally run amok . |
| 11 | The amount of sizing determines the paper 's resistance to water penetration and abrasion , as well as its printability and porosity . |
| 12 | Nineteenth-century concordats had improved the legal position of Roman Catholicism in many countries and often left the clergy considerable powers over such matters as education , yet Papal Infallibility , the Syllabus of Errors and the Church 's resistance to the conclusions of biblical criticism alienated intellectuals . |
| 13 | But feminist psychology retains conventional psychology 's resistance to making sexuality a topic of frequent or serious study . |
| 14 | But after 1917 Lenin 's resistance to all forms of ‘ revisionism ’ and the ideological closure enforced in the Communist International institutionalized a petrified Marxism , asserting the accuracy of every syllable which Marx or Engels ever wrote . |
| 15 | Chamberlain split from the Liberal party largely on the issue of Irish Home Rule , which he opposed , but also due to impatience with Gladstone 's resistance to social reform . |
| 16 | The success of the party 's resistance to Home Rule had been founded on absolute faith that it was the most important issue , but by 1914 this was no longer the case . |
| 17 | It will encompass issues of the force men use against women , gender relations in the formal political arena , and the variety of women 's resistance to their subordination . |
| 18 | In the light of revisionist work it is difficult to treat Nicholas 's resistance to liberal reform as a matter of chance or historical accident . |
| 19 | There are several examples of this process in this Special Issue as well as examples of people 's resistance to it . |
| 20 | She read her way through what was in the house — not a daunting process , given her mother 's resistance to the printed word — and then resorted to libraries . |
| 21 | It comes as no surprise to learn of NASA 's resistance to Sanskrit as a language for AI . |
| 22 | The righting moment ( RM ) measures the boat 's resistance to heel , and the higher the RM , the greater the resistance . |
| 23 | Garway 's resistance to exclusion perhaps earned him the respect of the government of James II . |
| 24 | The Chinese claim that , if practised regularly , it can substantially increase the body 's resistance to illness . |
| 25 | They were gratified by Egypt 's resistance to Western pressures to enter the Baghdad Pact and by Iraq 's withdrawal . |
| 26 | Nutritionally , infant formulas are almost identical to breast milk , although , as Dr Peter Sullivan points out , as far as building up your baby 's resistance to infection goes , they have absolutely no effect . |
| 27 | The two key areas were final acceptance of the European monetary union agreement and the Government 's resistance to many of the suggestions in the social programme of the additional treaty — those were not the original social suggestions in the social action programme . |
| 28 | As leader of the South West Africa People 's Organization ( SWAPO ) since its formation in 1960 , Nujoma embodied Namibia 's resistance to the South African occupation . |
| 29 | She had been unpopular with militant nationalists , who suspected her of being too conciliatory towards Moscow , and they voted down her price rise proposals on the grounds that they might prove socially divisive and thus weaken Lithuania 's resistance to Soviet pressure . |
| 30 | Cuba 's resistance to the subsequent 30-year US blockade , he stressed , had " saved the honour of Latin America " and " saved the honour of socialism which will be defended to the end " . |