11.  Some of the proposals appeared likely to run into difficulties, including heavy Republican opposition in Congress.

12.  That deal fell through under the weight of heavy opposition from racing participants and even many Bay Meadows stockholders.

13.  The bill never made it out of an Ohio House committee after heavy opposition from the NRA.

14.  The bill passed in the House hit heavy opposition in the Senate over whether it would allow religious groups to discriminate in their hiring practices.

15.  The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to give final approval to that request next month despite heavy opposition from car makers.

16.  The Longhorn proposal has drawn heavy opposition from landowners, environmentalists and public agencies.

17.  The patents bill has been held up for several years, in part because of heavy opposition from some inventors.

18.  The White House had already run into heavy opposition from civil rights groups, the computer industry and congressional Republicans.

19.  They did not, although they insisted they had come close despite heavy opposition from the party establishment.

20.  Two bills to do that are pending in the Missouri legislature, but face heavy opposition.