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This car is resistant to rust.
Why do yields increase with herbicide-resistant varieties?
Many are convinced that he is resistant to advice.
Please, don't say anything; I haven't put my shit-resistant trousers on today.
This bacterium is resistant to penicillin.
Already many buildings are now being built earthquake resistant.
This bacteria is resistant to every available antibiotic.
Some persons appear to be resistant to HIV infection.
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Our lab found traces of fish, rust-resistant paint, and salt in his clothes.
Pure wool - super-resistant!
I understand her sleep was heavy and resistant to shaking.
Fibrous resistant.
Let me begin by acknowledging what has become axiomatic in the field of shaving cream distribution, namely that shaving cream, indeed almost all personal hygiene products for men are what we call fashion resistant.
Resistant to heat of 3,000 degrees. Harder than diamond.
It is filled with fire-resistant gas.
I want the chemical formula of your fire-resistant gas.
But I want the formula of your fire-resistant gas.
They said the gas is fire-resistant though.
You are searching for a creature which is highly resistant to phaser fire.
It's definitely phaser-resistant.
It is resistant but it can be hurt and therefore killed.
An alloy resistant to probe.
No, on the contrary, it seems to be a very snag-resistant weave.
Guaranteed. Pure wool - super-resistant!
Acro-nylon. Fibrous resistant.
Resistant to heat of 3,000 degrees.
Moisture resistant.
Testing some new high-resistant silicone oils.
But cars are too strong and resistant. We cannot kill them with philosophy.
With the electric wave, he'll produce a mighty power which are. water, fire and thunder resistant. It's strong enough to resist the devil.
Rayma, you're fire, water. and thunder resistant.
Why, Papageno, so resistant?
Sturdy, wiIt-resistant.
You are searching for some sort of creature which is highly resistant to phaser fire.
It is definitely resistant, but it can be hurt.
It took them all their time to siphon some off into that heat-resistant jar.
When Friday recovered completely and after we thank the Lord, we started to look for a bigger tree, in order to make a canoe more big and resistant than the old one.
The rockets were made of a metal that was completely resistant to Dalek firepower.
News and current affairs
Tuberculosis was also soaring, partly as a result of the AIDS epidemic and partly because of the emergence of drug-resistant TB.
Small wonder: the American public is fiercely resistant to anything that seriously forces them to compromise on their energy-burning, gas-guzzling lifestyle.
Our analysis investigated, for example, the merits of more targeted policies for the near term: purchasing mosquito-resistant bed nets and oral re-hydration malaria therapy for children in the poorest nations affected by climate change.
But countries like Lebanon have become resistant to its effects - for example, by developing creative industries - diminishing its negative impact on economic, social, and intellectual development.
But, while international organizations encourage additional ODA spending, donor-country citizens are increasingly resistant.
Private insurance would discourage construction in the most dangerous locations, owing to prohibitively high premiums, while encouraging the adoption of tsunami-resistant building standards in marginal areas.
But the outcome of this grand experiment, which pits an authoritarian government dedicated to controlling politics against an information technology inherently resistant to such controls, is far from certain.
Constitutional change is for political leaders a welcome distraction from the much more change-resistant issues of social policy.
In the late 1980's, biologists found strains that were resistant to all known insecticides.
The more complex and costly the mechanisms used, the less fit the resistant population will be.
This suggests that resistant cells are not so unfit that drug-sensitive cells completely out-competed them, but that they struggle to proliferate when both types are present.
Our models show that in the absence of therapy, cancer cells that haven't evolved resistance will proliferate at the expense of the less-fit resistant cells.
When a large number of sensitive cells are killed, say, by aggressive therapies, resistant types can proliferate unconstrained.
They will need to understand the evolutionary dynamics of resistant populations, and design strategies to suppress or exploit the adapted characteristics.
For example, some tax systems are more corruption-resistant than others, because they curtail the discretionary authority of tax officials.
Lung cancer cells that are resistant to the chemotherapy gemcitabine are less proliferative, invasive, and motile than their drug-sensitive counterparts.
Although resistant forms are commonly found in tumors that haven't yet been exposed to treatment, they generally occur in small numbers.
Among this generation's most daunting challenges are food, water, and energy shortages; climate change and rising sea levels; and the spread of new, drug-resistant diseases.
Smug self-satisfaction makes us resistant to embracing the changes necessary to maintain our standard and quality of living.
All of the IMF-World Bank missions in the world are not going to overcome the problems of malaria, or drug-resistant tuberculosis, or even low agricultural productivity in the arid regions of Africa.
Cells in laboratory cultures that are resistant to chemotherapies typically lose their resistance when the chemicals are removed.