Object

• temptation: Water drained away, couldn't resist the temptation to dig.

• urge: In all seriousness, resist the urge to do this.

• eviction: Starting mid-May, the protest camp resisted eviction for 4 weeks.

• lure: She is pleased that Confusions has given her a reason to resist the permanent lure of Queens ' Ents.

• arrest: Lee broken mikes fronting slack Punk they cut a smile into our faces with still half an audience resisting arrest.

• attempt: Despite such a determined onslaught, BSL has resisted countless attempts to suppress it.

Used with why or when

• when: Its an impulse hard to resist when you know so much of its amazing 75 year history!

Present participle complement

• crease: Natural fibers allow your skin to breathe, and shed moisture while synthetic fibers help the fabric to resist creasing.

• bend: The dowel mechanism is created from the vertical rebars resisting bending at the moment of shear failure.

• crack: The glass fibers, which are chopped in situ by specially designed applicator vehicles, give tensile strength to the surface and resist cracking.

• slip: The reshaped seat is flatter and uses a new seat cover texture that resists slipping.

• try: Naturally I couldn't resist trying an Old Dick.

• throw: Prince is not only asserting his total artistic control but publicly displaying his inability to resist throwing a very heavy spanner into his works.

Modifying Another Word

• fiercely: With other Caucasian tribes they fiercely resisted Russian conquest in the nineteenth century.

• strenuously: Her claims have been strenuously resisted by H, his brother and his father.

• vigorously: British pharmaceutical companies - which vigorously resist disclosure of safety data in the UK - regularly use the American Freedom of Information Act.

• strongly: The company has strongly resisted our claim for additional payments for acceptance of new technology.

• successfully: Skyros ' soul had successfully resisted the market's designer spirituality.

• bitterly: This would be bitterly resisted by both Sunnis and Kurds.

Adjective complement

• evil: Resist not evil, and render good for evil,... were first preached in view of the implacability of Karmic law.