They flooded up the staircase, ignoring the elevators, and two permanent guards offered brief resistance.

The Irish also mounted a brief resistance, but were similarly defeated.

Only local partisans, armed with weapons acquired from retreating Germans, offered brief resistance.

But as Luke joined with her and experienced the first brief resistance of her untutored flesh she felt the shock run through him.

There is an occasional brief mental resistance before some of the more stubborn join the Totality.

Fortunately the defenders had made only a brief resistance.

After brief resistance, the Vietnamese retreated in the face of the reinforcements, leaving forty-two of their dead behind.

Under fire from two directions, the French Guardsmen put up a brief resistance then fled.

The Catholic forces attacked and after a brief resistance, the Protestant army broke around 4 in the afternoon.

When Union soldiers broke through the next brigade to the north, his exhausted men put up a brief resistance before retreating.