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I could feel the cold, stiff resistance to his words among the passengers, but not a single one of us turned to look at him.

But efforts to promote the project have run into stiff resistance.

But again, the troops met far stiffer resistance than expected.

Despite a stiff resistance by the south, the province would fall later in the day.

The last two projects were expected to meet stiff congressional resistance.

Other ideas are likely to face stiff resistance from the agencies.

The mission, which took shape last week, has run into stiff resistance from the Administration.

But this attack met stiff resistance from the start and made no progress.

Anyone trying to get me would encounter stiff resistance by my staff.

His proposals met with stiff resistance from the staff, the parents and the students of the school.

The Army had met fierce resistance in the western part of the city.

When the final battle came, they would put up fierce resistance.

They turned out to be wrong in the face of fierce Chinese resistance.

On 15 December 1312, he took the city, despite fierce resistance.

Once again the attack met with fierce resistance and it too failed.

The town was the scene of fierce Jewish resistance during those years.

This was partly because of a fierce local resistance to change.

As head of state, he led the local population in a fierce resistance to the French occupation forces.

When the assault began at 8.30 pm, there was fierce resistance.

It was not until 23 July troops had reached the base against fierce resistance.

The most strenuous opposition to the use of lampricide has come from Vermont.

The former point had been practically gained before his death, in spite of strenuous opposition.

This sparked strenuous opposition from neighbours in the expensive Beaches area.

The industry is expected to mount strenuous opposition in New York, the center of the financial services industry.

I made strenuous opposition to this request.

He sometimes offered strenuous opposition to official colonial policy affecting Nigerians in general.

Residents and city officials have voiced strenuous opposition to the proposal, citing potential health and safety problems.

In 1704 he was given ownership over the strenuous opposition of officials in New France.

These two concerns - about proliferation and the environment - have provoked strenuous international opposition.

During the 1960s, he faced more strenuous opposition in the Democratic primaries than in the general elections.