71.   This time, political opposition as well as stiff Chechen resistance and bungled military planning, forced Yeltsin to proceed slowly.

72.   Those rules, first proposed more than a dozen years ago, were met with stiff resistance from the airline industry.

73.   Welcomed in Cromwell, Groton and Norwich, it is meeting stiff resistance in Shelton and Branford.

74.   When well-trained colonial armies were ordered to crush the outlaws, they met with stiff resistance.

75.   When they attacked again, at dawn on Friday, they ran into stiff resistance.

76.   Opposition officials said anti-Taliban fighters advancing on the city faced stiff resistance from reinforced Taliban, but still managed to cut a key supply road.

77.   Opposition soldiers were providing stiff resistance to the attacks in Barikab, near Bagram, Sohail said.

78.   Pakistani analysts with long experience dealing with the Taliban warn that the Islamic militia will put up stiff resistance.

79.   A senior South African officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the force lacked troops and proper equipment to handle the stiff resistance.

80.   A senior South African officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the force lacked enough troops and proper equipment to handle the stiff resistance.