"The higher the leverage point, the more the system will resist changing it."

However, if the leverage points associated with the root causes of change resistance exist and can be found, the system will not resist changing them.

But he resisted changing his regular-guy image or his guerrilla-film ways.

How people resist changing their minds 'The Conversation', 27 April 2012.

The practice predated her and had become part of a tradition people resisted changing.

She hated wearing her own face and couldn't resist changing it to something else.

Or he may, as he has suggested since last summer, resist changing his ways.

He added that he couldn't resist changing a few of his lines in the name of legal accuracy.

One good reform deserves another, yet New York resists changing the crazy names it gives its courts.

The metropolitan-area dumpers had long resisted changing to land disposal, mostly because of the higher costs.