41.   Efforts to build incinerators to treat waste have faced fierce opposition in the past from environmental groups and citizens who live near the proposed sites.

42.   Efforts to change this favorable accounting treatment have met with fierce opposition from the business community.

43.   Endesa is reworking its complex plan to take control of the energy holding company Enersis in the face of fierce opposition by regulators and large investors.

44.   Faced with fierce opposition from teachers and parents, Education Alternatives Inc., has agreed with the Board of Education to take a go-slow approach.

45.   Fierce opposition from roadside property owners persuaded state highway officials to drop the scenic roads project two years ago.

46.   He faces fierce opposition from Republican leaders, who last year engineered the defeat of a similar effort.

47.   His proposal to build low-income housing in Westchester County met with fierce local opposition, and the project failed.

48.   In spite of fierce opposition, the enemy was ever so slowly enlarging its foothold.

49.   In several cases they have run into fierce opposition.

50.   Israeli negotiators demanded his release from a U.S. prison despite fierce opposition from American law enforcement and intelligence officials.