But his proposal last year to simplify the cumbersome structure of mutual banks hit a wall of resistance among managers who feared for their jobs.

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When Petraeus and other officers tried to change the approach in Iraq, they hit a wall of entrenched resistance.

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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a resistance movement of people who want Wall Street, the government and corporations to realize that individuals have the power to create change from the bottom-up.

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For a Wall Street example of this Teflon-like resistance to problems, take Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

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But like in other attempts at regulating lucrative lines of business regulators are facing resistance from Wall Street friendly lawmakers looking to extend the deadline.

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One big issue, greater public disclosure, or transparency, of short-selling activity, was met with resistance by many Wall Street insiders, for all the obvious competitive reasons.

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The title "5 Broken Cameras" refers to the damage to the filmmaker's equipment while documenting local resistance to encroaching Israeli settlements and the construction of an Israeli wall separating farmers from their lands and olive groves.

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This idea has been championed by conservative policy entrepreneurs such as Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review and Robert Stein, a veteran of George W. Bush's Treasury Department, yet it has met with fierce resistance from The Wall Street Journal editorial board, which sees it as an unjustifiable tax giveaway that is an unhelpful distraction from the need to cut marginal tax rates.

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