1.   And, worse still, the numbers are increasing as the disease spreads and grows more resistant to drugs.

2.   As foreign-policy conundrums, the two have little in common, except that both are familiar and both have grown more resistant to U.S. influence.

3.   Alan Victor, an executive vice president of Lansco Corp., said some retailers have grown resistant to demands for higher rents from landlords.

4.   By rights, it seemed, the bugs should be growing more resistant to the toxin.

5.   Doctors are increasingly facing staph bacteria that have grown resistant to penicillin antibiotics such as oxacillin, an important treatment for such infections.

6.   I may have to stop taking thalidomide if these and other effects become intolerable, or if the tumor cells grow resistant to the drug.

7.   In recent years, staph germs have grown increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

8.   Mosquitoes have grown resistant to many remedies and the aid group is worried that without help African governments will choose cheaper replacement drugs that are less effective.

9.   New bacteria and viruses evolve, and old ones grow more resistant to treatment.

10.   Otherwise, the HIV can quickly grow resistant to its effect.