71.   It was fierce local resistance, for instance, which forced Sterlite Industries to shift its copper smelting plant from Ratnagiri to Tamil Nadu.

72.   It took the Spanish conquistadors and their Chilean heirs nearly four centuries to subdue the fierce resistance of the Mapuche Indians in southern Chile.

73.   Lesotho soldiers opposing the intervention have been holed up on the mountain and have surprised the South Africans with their fierce resistance.

74.   Lesotho soldiers opposing the intervention have been holed up on the mountain and surprised the South Africans with their fierce resistance.

75.   Many who come through here loathe the war yet say they want to fight, to clear the name of an army embarrassed by fierce resistance and unexpected problems.

76.   Move would allow Yeltsin to bring Russian military into the conflict but might be met with fierce resistance.

77.   On Sunday, when troops resumed their march on Jaffna City after consolidating captured positions, the rebels put up fierce resistance.

78.   On Wednesday, hundreds of Russian tanks and armored vehicles rumbled toward the Chechen capital from several directions as the Kremlin pressed its offensive despite fierce resistance.

79.   Only fierce resistance from Archbishop Damianos a decade ago stopped a government project to run a cable car up Mount Sinai.

80.   Police panicked after traders set up a fierce resistance, shooting into the crowd and killing three people, several newspapers reported.