Profit from crime is why local politicians so adamantly resist the sovereignty of Bosnia, these officials say.

But the mayor's language seemed unlikely to shake anything loose in Albany, where many lawmakers, especially Republicans from upstate districts, adamantly resist increasing the city's share of education aid.

Czechoslovakia adamantly resisted reforms, for good reason.

No one resisted Mr. Gorbachev's call for reforms more adamantly than the gerontocrats in East Berlin.

He quotes an 18th-century French naturalist who speculated that Islamic proselytizing failed in China because the Chinese adamantly resisted the idea of giving up pork.

But Attallah, citing publications from the Women's Press for his credentials, adamantly resists charges of exploitation; the benefit, he argues, was mutual.

She adamantly resisted help and created trouble for everyone who reached out to her.

St. Casimir, a Polish church in Newark, adamantly and successfully resisted a merger with a Portuguese parish in recent years.

China and Myanmar, the two countries that have most adamantly resisted the pressure of pro-democratic protesters and their foreign supporters, are special cases as well, Professor Zunes said.

So why do you resist so adamantly?