Meanings of resisted all attempts in English

They have resisted all attempts to misrepresent or criminalise their mobilisation.

I had kept my word and resisted all attempts to make contact with me.

Since birth he has resisted all attempts to domesticate him.

We had no cannon, nor could we scale the walls, and the gates successfully resisted all attempts at forcing them.

Hadad returned from Egypt, and having gained adherents in certain parts of Edom, resisted all attempts made to dislodge him.

For the last ten years I have been troubled with a little ailment which has resisted all attempts at treatment.

They have steadily resisted all attempts to convert them to Christianity, and have practised cannibalism within a very recent period.

This implied a revolution, for St. Cuthbert's, up to this time, had resolutely resisted all attempts to hallow such profanities.

Despite brutal conditions, the seamen steadfastly resisted all attempts by the SS to turn them into collaborators with the Third Reich.

As a whole, the red tribes have resisted all attempts to lift them to the civilized level and keep them there.

She seemed in a grudging way to accept anew his professions of sincerity, but she resisted all attempts to extract any promise.

The training system had resisted all attempts at reform, with his team encountering opposition from the ministry, DHBs, and the colleges themselves, Gorman said.

The founders of the village had settled on the land without the permission of the absentee owner, and obstinately resisted all attempts at eviction.

The fame of Gauss had travelled there, but the duke resisted all attempts to bring or entice him to the university of that place.

He resisted all attempts at conversation, however, in the most dogged manner, barely returning surly monosyllables to my anxious wishes for his well being.

He said at the weekend that Mourinho had "violated" his integrity and he has resisted all attempts to coax him out of retirement.