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Recent Examples of resister
His expression was again lightly sardonic: a Jewish wiseass, a natural resister and conspirator, one maybe even handicapped in that role by looking too much the part.
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John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
The black paint across the mouths of Leah and her fellow resisters illustrates the real tragedy in Ennis — that their voices aren’t being heard — and Hank’s need to compensate for his inadequacy by hiding what happened to Annie is only making matters worse.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
In contrast, passive resisters will give the appearance of being on board but not follow through.
—Eric Waller, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
In my experience, passive resisters are the employees who need to be replaced sooner rather than later.
—Eric Waller, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
The black paint across the mouths of Leah and her fellow resisters illustrates the real tragedy in Ennis — that their voices aren’t being heard — and Hank’s need to compensate for his inadequacy by hiding what happened to Annie is only making matters worse.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
In contrast, passive resisters will give the appearance of being on board but not follow through.
—Eric Waller, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
In my experience, passive resisters are the employees who need to be replaced sooner rather than later.
—Eric Waller, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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What's New On Friday 170 House Republicans joined Democrats to approve an emergency funding bill just hours before a partial government shutdown was due to go into effect, despite President-elect Donald Trump's threat to oust any rebels.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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Over the years, there have also been news reports of Syrian rebels being treated in Israeli hospitals.Lauren Frayer, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
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Evan Turk’s provocative and emotive illustrations, portraits within this portrait, bring swirling movement and feeling to the story of this defier and definer of the times.BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
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Everybody enjoys being thought of as a scofflaw, or a hell-raiser, or defier of authority, especially if such activity happened in the past.Karen Martin, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020
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Initially a religious movement focused on promoting Yemen's Zaidi Shiite Muslim community, Ansar Allah grew into a powerful insurgent group that captured large swathes of northern territory, including Sanaa, between late 2014 and early 2015.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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The country is now largely under the control of an insurgent group named Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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The two who came closest to challenging him—the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin—are now dead.Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
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While Musk was on his honeymoon, Botha and other mutineers met with PayPal’s lead investors to make their case.Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a Sunni Islamist umbrella group of oppositionist forces with ideological and organizational roots in al-Qaeda.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Within Russia, the oppositionists’ challenges are far greater.Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
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Granted, such dialogue would be much harder with MAGA or leftist crazies, racists, anarchists, misogynists or white supremacists.Mike Mcgrew, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
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Their dilemmas evoke our disregard of the vacancy in Antifa anarchists and our encouragement of gender dysphoria.Armond White, National Review, 25 Sep. 2024
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This anecdotally bitter discovery - the name Amarone, means ‘the big bitter’ in Italian - led to the creation of one of what is now one the country’s most celebrated reds.Paul Caputo, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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There are two festive holiday colors: buffalo check and red.Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
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And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
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As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
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“Resister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resister. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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