strong resistance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstrongandresistance
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strong
adjective
uk/strɒŋ/us/strɑːŋ/
powerful; having or using great force ...
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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 ofstrongandresistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofstrong resistance
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As a consequence,strongresistancefrom pensioners might have been expected.
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Near the end of the mid-nineteenth century, the control exerted by the king over women's marriages had obviously begun to provoke somestrongresistance.
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Recovered rats showedstrongresistanceto reinfection and this resistance could be passively transferred with serum to non-irradiated and irradiated splenectomized rats.
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At that time (1987), it had met withstrongresistancefrom all the components of the ' 'pro-growth' ' coalition.
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Strongresistanceand threats of legal prosecutions thus characterized the process of adaptation.
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It censured two cabinet ministers, withstandingstrongresistancefrom the executive to have the censure motion lifted, particularly for one of the ministers.
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As a result, there was astrongresistanceto any sort of land tax on agricultural production.
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It has encounteredstrongresistancefrom the public domain and from 'open science' rules and has even led to the creation of new 'commons'.
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This suggested that there was astrongresistanceto infection associated with these rabbits.
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The expansion of state planning was met withstrongresistancefrom some social quarters.
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This mechanism confersstrongresistanceto organophosphates and lower resistance to carbamates and pyrethroids.
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Sampling, which may offer a way out from those conflicting needs, also traditionally encountersstrongresistanceand is seldom employed.
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Although the initial purpose was a new and shared concern, attempts to establish cross-boundary and crosssectoral working met withstrongresistancefrom the existing institutional framework.
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I very much hope that we will get that but there isstrongresistancefrom a number of developing countries.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Then there is the matter ofstrongresistanceto majority voting.
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Thus, all the lines of action debated so widely in the world have not at this stage met anystrongresistance.
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To my mind there will bestrongresistanceto the transfer of individual hospital funds to the area health committees.
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I should like to see an insistence on getting value for money and astrongresistanceto any price increase.
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