21.   GM has resisted that demand, saying it must have more flexibility in its parts-purchasing decisions if the company is to hold down costs and remain competitive.

22.   He has resisted demands from Christian conservatives to make Muslim organizations ineligible for government grants.

23.   He argued successfully that White House counsel, because they are government employees, could not resist his demand for testimony about what the president had said to them.

24.   He ran into trouble with the ideological old guard because he resisted demands by his colleagues in Hanoi for a complete transformation of the capitalist south.

25.   He issued new demands for the release of prisoners and resisted demands for the reduction of his police force.

26.   Hospitals are consolidating, raising their ability to resist demands for lower fee arrangements.

27.   However, organizers resisted demands that someone representing the Israeli opposition or critics of the peace negotiations address the rally.

28.   In Canada, GM had resisted union demands that it match the terms in the Chrysler-CAW agreement reached in September.

29.   In particular, Holbrooke charges Smith with resisting his demands that Serbian war criminals be pursued and arrested.

30.   In resisting the demand for extradition, Palestinian officials invoked an agreement with Israel under which neither side was obliged to extradite anyone already held in its own jails.