11.   A skewer or paring knife inserted into the meat should encounter no resistance, and the meat should be nearly falling from the bone.

12.   Additional infrastructure projects, like the creation of connecting waterways, are encountering resistance.

13.   Alliant has encountered unexpected resistance in the labyrinths of the Ukrainian bureaucracy.

14.   But apart from the resistance the Indian proposals seemed likely to face from the established nuclear powers, they seemed certain to encounter resistance from Pakistan.

15.   But black performers still encountered mainstream resistance.

16.   But after more than a decade of pedaling, they encounter little resistance from their human clients.

17.   But expenses are climbing even faster as patients use more medical services and managed-care companies encounter growing resistance to cutbacks on payments.

18.   But from the start, the arrival of the profit-making company encountered resistance that sometimes included protests, threats and vandalism.

19.   But Mr. Giuliani too is encountering resistance.

20.   But the crackdown encountered fierce resistance from the companies and business groups.