resists
Synonyms
Examples
He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept affliction is taken prisoner by evil thoughts, even though he resists them.
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.
You can only lean against that which resists.
Even when a goat knows that it is being dragged to graze, it still resists.