“Resistance” or “Resistants”—Which to use?

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nounthe action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with.
nounany mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion.
nounthe military action of resisting the enemy's advance.
nounthe capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents.
nounthe degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria).
noun(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness.
noungroup action in opposition to those in power.

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…Australians came up against strong resistance around the Bumi River.
…type of resistor with electrical resistance inversely proportional to its temperature.
…was a violent and peasant-led resistance movement provoked by British repression…
…including Samarkand, with little apparent resistance.
…Basco, which was accomplished without resistance.
…completely independent of the additional resistance to be found when the…
…of her involvement with the resistance.
…Amanat, Jewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and…
…hold around Sattelberg against determined resistance following a hard slog through…
Fierce resistance from the 2/28th halted them…

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