Indeed, religions do not resist the pressures of economic change well.

Dispersion stability refers to the ability of a dispersion to resist change in its properties over time. D.J.

MADRID Arab societies often appear rigid and resistant to change to outsiders, because what they see is these countries ruling regimes, which mostly do resist development and change.

But there are many examples where such change was sudden and violent the French and Russian Revolutions, for example.

Given North Korea s behavior over the last decade, the sudden change of leadership increases the threat of unexpected incidents.

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A few years ago, Professor Vaclav Smil tried to calculate the probability of sudden disasters large enough to change history.

But the war in Lebanon and its consequences have caused a sudden and fundamental change in the leisurely pursuit of this policy.

Then 10,000 years ago, exploiting a sudden change in global climate with the end of the last ice age, humans learned to farm.

Most constitutions including the American one aspire to freeze history, or to set up a lasting institutional order that will resist the winds of change.

They like the way things have been working, and why shouldn t they? In countries with corrupt and imperfect democracies, they have the wherewithal to resist change.

There are no easy ways out of underdevelopment without challenging traditional lifestyles, customs, and social relations. Indeed, religions do not resist the pressures of economic change well.

It's useless to try and resist.

Entrenched interests (food processing companies, in the case of nutritional labeling) resist change with all of their lobbying efforts, but public outrage is too strong for them to win.

Questions about the change in practice have reached US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who admitted that she herself would resist a sexual pat down and President Barack Obama.

In the first two, the US reassures each of these region s countries that there will be no sudden change in the balance of power that will threaten them.

Sudden, violent storms are frequent.

According to Ogburn, cultural lag is a common societal phenomenon due to the tendency of material culture to evolve and change rapidly and voluminously while non material culture tends to resist change and remain fixed for a far longer period of time.

Saleh will undoubtedly resist such an effort.

We can erect houses that resist burning.

That is, the markets have been more vulnerable to sudden large drops than they have been to sudden large increases.

China s increased financial power may have increased its ability to resist American entreaties, but despite dire predictions, its creditor role has not been sufficient to compel the US to change its policies.

One should, however, resist falling back on fatalism.

Large and sudden increases in the rates of assessment of developing countries must be avoided, and any change in a country's share of total contributions must be commensurate with economic realities.

They have looked at legal institutions as complex systems of rules, players and symbols and have seen these elements interact with society to change, adapt, resist or promote certain aspects of civil society.

99.9 percent of them resist being inducted into prostitution.

Advanced countries are certain to resist any new commitments.

No wonder recipient countries resist inflows of hot capital.

The complainant himself made no attempt to resist arrest.

There are forces at the heart of our unsustainable way of life that resist change, but we also see signs of hope, some of which we identify in section III of the present report.

Before any real change can place, both institutions require fundamental governance changes. The puzzling circumstances of the IMF head s sudden departure announcement do not justify a business as usual approach to his replacement.

All of a sudden, a dog began barking.

Definition A retaining wall is a structure designed and constructed to resist the lateral pressure of soil when there is a desired change in ground elevation that exceeds the angle of repose of the soil.

Well, you could resist the temptation to announce your goal.

So why do I hope that they resist that temptation?

Moralities that resist this logic are branded obstacles to progress.

So we will resist the temptation of revenge and retribution.

Try not to resist the changes, which come your way.

A dictator s sudden death almost always triggers political instability.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

We were all touched by his sudden passing away.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance.

And he used the chairmanship to elicit commitments to resist protectionism.

It's like taking a very sudden snapshot of the proton.

This sudden fear of emerging countries presents a major dilemma.