1.   Although the shipping industry seems resistant to adopting his idea, a few people are looking into it.

2.   A number of the justices seemed resistant to suggestions that Rhode Island had to provide valid scientific evidence.

3.   In general, he has seemed resistant to doing the expected.

4.   Mayor Thomas M. Menino encouraged the project as a way to stimulate economic revitalization along Washington Street, which had seemed stubbornly resistant.

5.   No group in America seems more resistant to economic theory than politicians.

6.   The aim is to speed up the proceedings, but baseball seems constitutionally resistant to such forces, its tempo immutable.

7.   The New York Stock Exchange seems resistant to change.

8.   The union seemed equally resistant to making the first move.

9.   Yet the Saudis seem resistant to self-examination.