31.   In the most plausible explanation of its disappearing act, limestone veins offered less resistance than the surrounding granite when the glacial melt gathered speed.

32.   It showed dozens of deputies swinging batons, kicking and hitting the partygoers, who appeared to be offering little resistance.

33.   It would not offer significant resistance to a hurricane, but the smaller levee would slow erosion on the island.

34.   Lightly armed Bosnian government troops offered some resistance to the advancing Serbs, but were being easily pushed back, Western diplomats said.

35.   Meanwhile, the Diamondbacks offered little resistance to Helling, who had won his last three starts.

36.   Monday night, the Sixers offered little resistance.

37.   McDermott, of Haverhill, offered no resistance and was placed under arrest at gunpoint.

38.   None were said to have offered any resistance, and no law enforcement officer was injured.

39.   Norman Myers, a British researcher, documents the multibillion-dollar insurance value of preserving wild feed grains that offer resistance to plant diseases.

40.   Neither the woman nor the man appeared to offer any resistance or make any attempt to get away.