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- noun Plural form of
resistance .
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In the Christian tradition deriving from Augustine, the inevitable result of habitually indulging such resistances is sin, and Coleridge was morbidly sensitive to the sinful tendencies of the "streamy nature of the associating Faculty" in his own imaginative life when it was left to itself, as in dreams and reveries (Coburn, Notebooks, 1.1833).
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Key long-term resistances for this stock are at Rs 81 and then at Rs 92.
News Centre@myiris.com India's Most Comprehensive Financial Destination 2010
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In India, Mumbai's benchmark BSE Sensex 30 continued its bull run to 15,322 in early afternoon local time Friday, after trying unsuccessfully midday on Wednesday and at the Friday open to throw a log over 15,500, where multiple coinciding short - and medium-term resistances are concentrated.
Asia Times Online 2009
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We're running short of near-term resistances to the upside, normally an encouraging sign for the immediate-term.
FXstreet.com 2009
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Short term resistances are placed at 1.2810 / 20 zone, followed by 1.2855 and 1.2898.
FXstreet.com 2009
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Winnicott believed that treatment failed more from the therapist’s inability to meet the patients’ needs than from their so-called resistances Khan,1975: xxvi.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Winnicott believed that treatment failed more from the therapist’s inability to meet the patients’ needs than from their so-called resistances Khan,1975: xxvi.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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"resistances" to throw into the circuit, in proportion to the amount of current used.
Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine Frederick Irving Anderson 1912
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However, as farmers in the U.S. and elsewhere are already painfully aware, insects develop resistance to Bt and weeds build resistances to herbicides.
Eric Holt Gimenez: Perpetuating the Eternal Food Fight Eric Holt Gimenez 2011
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Discrete values were used to define loads/demand (D) and resistances/capacity (R).
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