1.   Within the local councils, though, there is increasing dissent from the policy.

2.   He has vowed to stay the course despite labor unrest and increasing dissent in his own party.

3.   Hemmed in by a tightening Israeli stranglehold, which triggered overnight exchanges of fire outside his Ramallah offices, Arafat is also facing increasing dissent among Palestinian hardliners.

4.   Hemmed in by a tightening Israeli stranglehold, which triggered overnight exchanges of fire outside his Ramallah offices, Arafat was also facing increasing dissent among Palestinian hardliners.

5.   Arafat is also facing increasing dissent among Palestinian hardliners.