1.   As the stock market rises and bullish sentiment heats up, they usually resist the tendency to raise their long-term earnings forecasts accordingly.

2.   But he resists the tendency of so many of his knee-jerk contemporaries to ridicule ALL government programs as inherently evil.

3.   Certainly it is a mark of their seriousness that the authors resist the tendency to tell their spy story in what has become the standard faux-novel form.

4.   With a certain amount of luck, those boards should lay flat for years, and will resist the tendency to open gaps between them.

5.   Freedom House warns that Washington must resist isolationist tendencies manifested by budget cuts in foreign aid.