Such a body could also face fierce resistance from rebel groups fighting on the ground.
Yet paid leave proposals in cities are met with fierce resistance in the name of small business success.
Supporters of her successor, Fidel Ramos, had also wanted to tinker with the constitution but ran into fierce resistance.
Although Iraqi paramilitary fighters were putting up fierce resistance, the suburbs and parts of the city appeared to be in coalition control.
Maryhelen Kincaid, land use chairwoman of the East Columbia Neighborhood Association, was a touch surprised at the relative lack of fierce resistance against the development.
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France's Cabinet approved a draft bill Wednesday that would give same-sex couples marriage and adoption rights in the face of fierce resistance from the Roman Catholic Church and social conservatives.
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British troops, with the support of coalition air power, have been pushing steadily into Basra since shortly after the start of the war, facing fierce resistance from Iraqi regular and irregular troops.
Back in 1997, the then free-market-friendly Republican state Senate and the then free-market-friendly state governor, George Pataki, tried to get rid of rent restraints, but ran into fierce resistance from the Democrat-controlled assembly.
It has resisted immediately imposing losses on bondholders, yet insists they must share the pain from 2013 and has started to discuss lengthening debt maturities despite fierce resistance from the European Central Bank.
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Western diplomats say they were confused by China's initial attempt to have Mr. Devillers extradited from Cambodia as it was certain to have met fierce resistance from the French government and the European Union.
SEPI, Izar's state holding company, recently had to postpone plans to split the loss-making Izar group's four military and six civilian shipyards into separate companies because of fierce resistance to the job cuts involved.
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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.
And fierce public resistance to eroding generous worker and consumer protections has made governments unwilling, or unable, to implement the kinds of deep structural reforms that could help.
He will meet fierce Franco-German resistance, but Ireland is another prompt for the EU, and Germany in particular, to look at a broader, formal restructuring (including Greece and probably Portugal).
Resistance to this is fierce, and may account for much of the recent drop in his popularity.
Resistance against Dutch occupation was fierce and did not end, arguably, until 1903, some say a decade later.
But it has met fierce political opposition and has been badly bruised as resistance to free trade persists on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Amistad uprising, a story of triumphant resistance, was a daring choice of subject given the fierce racial tensions of the 1930s.
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