mount resistance

To try to stop or keep something from happening. I'm worried that the townspeople are going to mount resistance once they learn that yet another tax has been levied against them.

See also: mount, resistance

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The camera was unable to separate Phantom Bridge, ridden by William Nevett and Davy's mount Resistance in the Beechfield Handicap.

Davy Jones won races in his sixties

The weak and vulnerable and those least likely to mount resistance, like single parents, will also be hammered.

Happy New Year? Ask me in another decade.

For they prove every day that they are losers, ineligible to rule and even to mount resistance.

Ayoon Wa Azan The Victims Will Not Be Brought Back to Life

Subsequent chapters take the same approach in exploring the ways enslaved people used secret meetings and parties, the wearing of prohibited clothing, the consumption of alcohol, and homes and private property to mount resistance (60-61, 116).

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women & Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

Ending a decade-long quest, scientists have now identified a gene that enables the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum to mount resistance to chloroquine, a major antimalarial drug that has become increasingly ineffective around the world.