"resistance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- First, they said, ferocious resistance to a military raid that began Tuesday had prompted the deadliest fighting in the area in two years, suggesting the presence of a top Qaeda leader.
- Perhaps the cause of the final debacle can be found in the ferocious resistance that the incredible computer had been putting up against him.
- After the Japanese successfully broke into the Taiyan basin, the Japanese continued to encounter ferocious resistance.
- Storms smashed his ships and ferocious resistance from blue-skinned tribes and vicious dogs were almost his undoing.
- Although the Anglo-French force defeated Argentine forces, the cost of victory proved excessive in light of the ferocious resistance from the Argentines.
- What he did not expect was the ferocious resistance offered by Lieutenant General Vasily Chuikov.
- The ferocious resistance suggested there were perhaps 1,000 enemy fighters dug into the caves and crevasses.
- The Army was short of food and gasoline, but, as Iwo Jima and Okinawa proved, it was capable of ferocious resistance.
- Militarily, the battle ended indecisively with the Iraqi security forces clearing some districts but facing ferocious resistance in others.
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