11.  So far, Lehman has accomplished much of that agenda, but not without bitter opposition from some agency customers, chief among them independent inventors.

12.  That outspokenness often has been the catalyst of bitter opposition.

13.  That proposal has created bitter opposition from civil liberty and privacy groups.

14.  The acquisition generated bitter opposition.

15.  The bill has encountered bitter opposition from ophthalmologists, who are full-fledged physicians, and touched off a lobbying war on Beacon Hill.

16.  The bill prevailed over the bitter opposition of the state hospital lobby.

17.  The NATO bombing has been met with bitter opposition in Russia and elicited vitriolic attacks by nationalists in parliament.

18.  The next president will face bitter opposition from the party that lost the election, an almost evenly divided Congress and a weakening economy, he said.

19.  To be sure, the most bitter opposition has come from foes of the whole development, who readily admit they would likely criticize almost anything Queens West did.

20.  An attempt to shut down the Islamic Affairs office could arouse bitter opposition throughout the Arab world.