The company has traditionally resisted labor union organizing, although unions represent some IBM workers outside the United States.

Democrats and trial lawyers have traditionally resisted changing the law, saying patients need legal recourse when they are injured.

The S.E.C. has traditionally resisted the writing of a precise definition out of a concern that its flexibility would be limited.

Russia and France favor activating the Staff Committee, which American armed forces have traditionally resisted as a threat to command autonomy.

His work shows how from the American Revolution to the Second New Deal, Americans have traditionally resisted concentration of power and understood that its distribution is critical for freedom and democracy.

These mountains were home to a people who had traditionally resisted all attempts at subjugation; this place was also of Shī'a leaning.

However, he also argues American jurisdictions have traditionally resisted fines and community service as alternatives to imprisonment, notwithstanding strong support for these sanctions among academics and reformers.

"The S.E.C. has traditionally resisted its power to second-guess a F.A.S.B. rule," Mr. Levitt said.

The United States has traditionally resisted Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel occupied in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Mr. Klein predicted that even people and groups that had traditionally resisted change would go along with his plans for the system as long as they felt part of the decision-making process.