Synonyms for resisted
re·sist·ed

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1. List of paraphrases for "resisted":

   withstood, stood, repulsed, resistance, boycott, combated

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1. John Thune:

   When Trump was in the White House… and made repeated pleas to the Republican Senate to try and get rid of the filibuster, we resisted that. The reason we did is because we knew someday we would be in the minority.

2. Bep Voskuijl:

   Even though Anne was almost ten years younger than I was, at times I almost had the inclination to tell her things that were very private. I know that she valued hearing about such intimacies. She asked me very personal questions on a number of occasions. I resisted telling her everything because I knew she was keeping a diary and I didn’t want her to write about personal matters, which I might have revealed.

3. Liu Bingjiang:

   This is a dereliction of supervision duty and it should be resolutely resisted.

4. Frederick Douglass:

   Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

5. Tsai Ting Yu:

   Before the trips, I kind of resisted the idea of China. But through the programs I got to know them better and that resistance gradually disappeared.