Arriving at Barbados, and finding a large royalist force ready to resist them, they landed their soldiers, and defeated them in a pitched battle.
Claiming that there was danger that they might attack Virginia, "being an open and defenseless country," Nicholson organized a new force to resist them.
When the dread news spread in Charles City County that large bodies of Indians were on the upper James ready to descend on them, hundreds of angry men assembled in arms to resist them.
If business and the world call these evil tempers into action, business and the world call that religion into action too which teaches us to resist them.
Say not, that you are exposed to temptations without any power to resist them.
These temptations will be as great to you, as higher trials are to higher people; but you have the same God to look to for strength to resist them as they have.
We have learnt which of them to approach or avoid, how to set about overcoming their resistance or to resist them so as to prevent ourselves from injury; but this is not enough.
The artificial education of the rich never fails to make them politely imperious, by teaching them the words to use so that no one will dare to resist them.
You see no alternative but either to favour his inclinations or to resist them; to tyrannise or to wink at his misconduct; and both of these may lead to such dangerous results that one must indeed hesitate between them.
After this they came into Dorcetshire, and passed through the countrie with flame and fire, not finding anie that offered to resist them.
Those who preach disorder and those who preach violence must know that local authorities are able to resist them swiftly, to resist them sternly, and to resist them decisively.
These horns had the supreme power over Judah for a time, while they were in no capacity to resist them; but as soon as the Lord furnishes them with capacity and instruments impowered to resist them, they do it effectually.
The enemy are advancing from Corinth, and there are not sufficient troops to resist them.
If it is because they are followed by the plebeians, we are in a worse condition on that account, and they in a better; for were it to come either to arms or to votes, we should not be able to resist them.
But the affair was discovered before the appointed day arrived, so that those without found the city in arms, and prepared to resist them.
For at first their officers imagined that the troops they saw were some Achaeans come out to resist them.
The Eleans after overrunning Dymaea, gained an easy victory over some cavalry that had come out to resist them, by decoying them into an ambush.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resist them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
