81.   This has drawn fierce opposition from the Bosnian Serbs who fear acts of ethnic vengeance by the Sarajevo authorities.

82.   Threats to eliminate the tax breaks had provoked fierce opposition in the Brazilian Congress.

83.   To surmount the fierce opposition from physicians and hospitals, Johnson instructed his lieutenants to make whatever concessions were necessary to hammer the bill through Congress.

84.   Until there are more early warning signals, the Fed will encounter fierce political opposition to any rate increases, analysts said.

85.   When BA and American first proposed the alliance, they said they expected approval within months but fierce opposition from rivals and consumer advocates helped intensify regulatory reviews.

86.   Wilson and the colleagues who have continued his work encountered fierce opposition when they first announced the existence of their African Eve.

87.   Pakistan is siding with the United States despite fierce opposition by Islamic parties.

88.   Polls have showed that most Montenegrins support an independent state, but there is fierce opposition, especially in the north of the republic bordering Serbia.

89.   A federal judge has lifted a temporary restraining order barring Makah Indians from hunting gray whales, an ancient tradition that has sparked fierce opposition in recent years.

90.   A military tribunal had convicted them of murdering four political opponents, but critics of Abacha said they were falsely accused because of their fierce opposition to his government.