1.   Almost immediately, however, a fierce nationalist resistance erupted directed by a fiery prophet in the hills of Galilee.

2.   Endeavours to change their religion had provoked fierce resistance.

3.   Hence the fierce resistance among the professionals to limited liability.

4.   None the less, the employers were intent on fierce resistance.

5.   The promotion of women ran into fierce resistance, which led to persistent and quite unacceptable forms of discrimination.

6.   The rebels have put up fierce resistance with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.

7.   The rebels have put up fierce resistance.

8.   True, bolder challenges to orthodoxy, especially when they touched upon the role played by the party, provoked fierce resistance.

9.   We can no longer afford this attitude, in an age of fierce resistance to taxes.

10.   Such a policy would inevitably draw fierce resistance from farmers.