widespread resistance

collocation in English

meaningsofwidespreadandresistance

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widespread
adjective
uk
/ˌwaɪdˈspred/us
/ˌwaɪdˈspred/
existing or happening in many places and/or among ...
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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 ofwidespreadandresistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The intensive use of anthelmintics has resulted inwidespreadresistance, affecting all of the major compounds.
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The occurrence ofwidespreadresistanceto chemicals, and multiple resistance to chemicals within a single isolate of ticks, poses great problems for the effective chemical control of the parasite.
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Ipsen argues effectively that thewidespreadresistanceof individual older people to change might, when pooled together, represent the basis for urban innovation.
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Although this had some support from the poor peasants, it metwidespreadresistancein the countryside, with numerous riots and attacks on officials and in some areas even armed uprisings.
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This is threatened by, for example, accumulations of chemicals in the environment and the ever morewidespreadresistanceto antibiotics.
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What is clear is that there has beenwidespreadresistanceto the new measures.
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I do not wonder that there iswidespreadresistanceto these camps.
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I do not agree with those who talk about organisations having carried out surveys which show that there is nowidespreadresistanceto change.
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Fluoroquinolones are no longer recommended due towidespreadresistanceof gonorrhoeae to this class.
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However,widespreadresistanceto reforms within the government and from a significant part of the population soon stalled the reform efforts.
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Both the campaign against priestly marriage and that against simony provokedwidespreadresistance.
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This plan was abandoned in 1932 in the face ofwidespreadresistanceto collectivization and the failure to meet production goals.
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