In fact, the trade deficit has proved surprisingly resistant to improvement.

They rarely transmit diseases to humans, and are surprisingly resistant to rabies, mainly because they have lower body temperatures than most placental mammals.

It is also worth noting that for all Russia's travails and spiritual dislocation, the people have proved surprisingly resistant to extremism.

As she sat in on the early management team meetings, Miss Lanes found herself surprisingly resistant.

Your Klingon hide may be surprisingly resistant to stun setting, especially when you're in full warrior mode.

That would normally be light to stand up to plasma cannons, but the steel that they are made of turned out to be surprisingly resistant.

THE toy industry has been surprisingly resistant to hard times.

Although they were expected to be washed away by the new wave of talent, both have proved to be surprisingly resistant to erosion.

The narrow neck just south of Aldeburgh appears to be surprisingly resistant: it was breached, however, by the 1953 floods, but reformed by bulldozers within a few days.

When subjected to biochemical manipulations, the plaques proved surprisingly resistant to degradation.