But even this decision is meeting resistance, and New York's new mayor sounds like a resister.

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The resister feels compelled by religion or conscience to follow this route rather than to pay as of their own free will for war and weapons.

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Both during his thirty years as a revolutionary and his subsequent thirty years as a resister, Einstein remained consistent in his willingness to be a serenely amused loner who was comfortable not conforming.

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In the words of the 2004 CIA's inspector general report on detainees that was also released this week, Mohammed was an accomplished resister, provided only a few intelligence reports prior to the use of the waterboard, and analysis of that information revealed that much of it was outdated, inaccurate or incomplete.

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