41.   Chan refuses to resign in the face of mounting political opposition and a threat of military intervention.

42.   Embattled Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan refused Sunday to resign in the face of mounting political opposition and a threat of military intervention.

43.   Dudayev has responded to the mounting opposition by dissolving parliament and arresting his political enemies and eventually anyone against his policies, thus creating a vacuum around himself.

44.   Embattled Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan said Sunday he would not resign despite mounting political opposition and a real threat of military intervention.

45.   Embattled Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan Sunday said he would not resign, despite mounting political opposition and a threat of military intervention.

46.   The poll came amid mounting opposition in Germany to the decision of President Jacques Chirac to resume testing on the Pacific atoll of Mururoa in September.

47.   Meanwhile, British historian James Gow told the opening tribunal session here that mounting opposition to renascent Serbian nationalism had sparked the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia.

48.   Mounting opposition in the US Congress over the loan guarantee plan, as well as overwhelming US public sentiment against the rescue, had sent the Mexican bolsa reeling.

49.   Peiris denied that the reforms were getting held up because of mounting opposition.

50.   Police had held off on the church and temple raids amid mounting opposition from academics, Buddhists and Catholics who said police had no right to violate religious sanctuary.