form of resistance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformandresistance
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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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 offormandresistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In large part because of the political repression within the arsenals, workers perceived mobility as the bestformofresistanceand avoided direct action.
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Yet, this does not presume the weakening of power, rather the counterattack only increases the strength of power in theformofresistance.
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Thisformofresistanceis inferred from the frequent references in piece-rate rules to workers' indolence.
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Whether it could be construed as aformofresistanceis another question.
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This total disjunction of the discipline from society was cast as a rejection of society's commodification, as aformofresistanceand critique.
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First, the host could adopt a quantitativeformofresistance, which can be used to limit the deleterious effects induced by the parasites.
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This was probably, at least in part, due to various fitness costs acting against thisformofresistancewhen selection by insecticides was relaxed.
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His career well exemplifies the thesis that, in the context of colonial intrusion, collaboration could be the most effectiveformofresistance.
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Such behavior, considered so foul by the reformers, actually constitutes aformofresistanceto the middle-class fashioning of communal space and its uses.
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Others point to the historical origins of organic agriculture as aformofresistanceto agricultural industrialization and contend that organic agriculture is an idealized alternative.
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Secondly, it was examined as a potentialformofresistanceto processes making old bodies invisible because of their loss of cultural value in its broadest sense.
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The 'underground' ethos of the local dance culture is read as aformofresistanceto those who exercise conventional political and commercial power in the city.
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Eisenman asserted that his architecture was a critique and aformofresistanceto commodification via its autonomous practice.
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I say so because, otherwise, aformofresistancewill develop among the general public and could erupt into outbursts of intolerance against individuals.
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It seems to us to be going too far to make anyformofresistance, for example to the displaced residential occupier, a criminal offence.
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They would be the most difficultformofresistancemovement if there were to be such armed aggression.
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As such, resistance is part and parcel of such nationalisms and their very existence is aformofresistanceto imperialist intrusions.
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The use of weighted clothing is aformofresistancetraining, generally a kind of weight training.
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