Even if negotiators could agree on the outline of large-scale cuts in Medicaid, they would still face wide and bitter resistance.

They put up bitter resistance in the air scoring a few successes.

At the beginning, there had been the assault against a brief, surprisingly bitter, but almost pointless resistance.

Given the high fares they have been able to charge, their bitter resistance to deregulation is easy to understand.

Efforts to cut costs met with bitter resistance by union workers opposed to layoffs.

He was tireless in his bitter resistance to all the festivities of Boreas.

When officials resorted to drafting men, they faced bitter resistance.

They fought their way to the top of the Heights despite bitter resistance, then paused to drag up some cannon.

But there was bitter resistance to the idea.

Those withdrawals also generated some of the bitterest resistance among Israeli nationalists.