continued resistance

collocation in English

meaningsofcontinuedandresistance

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continued
adjective[before noun]
uk
/kənˈtɪn.juːd/us
/kənˈtɪn.juːd/
still happening, existing, ...
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resistance
noun
uk
/rɪˈzɪs.təns/us
/rɪˈzɪs.təns/
the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to ...
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(Definition ofcontinuedandresistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There are two other considerations that have weighed heavily with me in deciding mycontinuedresistanceto what is being proposed.
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There is acontinuedresistanceto accept automation and a continued failure of management to press forward with it.
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There is this doubt about the invalid trike and thecontinuedresistanceto its phasing out.
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There is no doubt that she had by hercontinuedresistanceto forcible feeding greatly aggravated her punishment, but that suffering was brought on entirely by her own action.
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The difficulty, of course, is that there iscontinuedresistancebecause of the fear of redundancy.
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Indeed, we might easily delay resistance to a point wherecontinuedresistanceand true collective security would have become impossible.
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There was no mention of charges of lack of sympathy orcontinuedresistanceto authority.
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That historic task has now to be pushed through againstcontinuedresistanceby narrow, nationalistic and producer interests, often disguised by rhetoric about the social charter and technical standards.
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Notably, he broke the rules of the assembly by forcibly removing a speaker who supportedcontinuedresistance.
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T c also appeared to view nh'scontinuedresistanceas a misguided manifestation of loyalty.
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