1.   A bipartisan drive to change the rules for financing federal campaigns is running into stiff resistance from veteran members of Congress.

2.   A stiff resistance might well increase the pressure on Washington to end the war on Southern terms.

3.   Investors had mixed views of how bonds would react if the bailout plan met stiff resistance in the Diet.

4.   The city government is facing some stiff resistance.

5.   The hierarchy, however, mounted stiff resistance and publicly denounced any attack on ecclesiastical privileges and property.

6.   The troops are encountering stiff resistance.

7.   The last two projects were expected to meet stiff congressional resistance.

8.   These conditions were expected to meet stiff resistance in the Legislative Assembly.

9.   Almost from the start of the battle, the allied troops met with stiff resistance from enemy fighters burrowed into mountainsides.