31.   His mail reflected the fierce resistance of the same purists who rejected Roger Maris.

32.   Israeli officials have said the paths were created to move tanks and armored vehicles into the warren of houses where Palestinians put up fierce resistance.

33.   Israeli attacks on Nablus and Jenin met fierce resistance.

34.   Local Democrats and union leaders have put up fierce resistance, but these reforms seem to be gaining favor, especially outside New York.

35.   No wonder, then, that the man calling the post office a troublesome anachronism is meeting with fierce resistance.

36.   Now the war threatens to spread across the mostly Muslim Caucasus, where since the days of the czars there has been fierce resistance to Russian power.

37.   Settlers leaders agreed to cooperate in the removal, but they met fierce resistance from a small community of religious settlers and second-generation settlers more radical than their parents.

38.   Similarly, Israeli soldiers said they did not anticipate such fierce Palestinian resistance.

39.   Similarly, Israeli soldiers said they did not anticipate such fierce resistance.

40.   That is why so many civic leaders are taken aback that such fierce resistance has risen.