1.   The oil companies face stubborn resistance from environmentalists.

2.   The stubborn resistance of the people remains an inspiring example.

3.   What accounted for this stubborn resistance of nationalities to the predicted assimilation?

4.   They have shown a stubborn resistance to change.

5.   But this is not a time for personal pride and stubborn resistance to stand in the way of the cold, hard facts of life.

6.   Along the Gold Coast of Fairfield County the stores are meeting some stubborn resistance.

7.   Although the screen has been befogged by effusions of all sorts and from many sources, viewers have shown a stubborn resistance to being snowed.

8.   An English professor at the University of Iowa, Lutz is almost weak-kneed from the sheer immensity of the subject and its stubborn resistance to a grand schema.

9.   But like Adolfo Rodriguez Saa, an interim president who resigned on Sunday, Duhalde had to contend with some stubborn resistance within his own party.

10.   But stubborn resistance remains.