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  • In its desperate broadcasts that aimed to rally the resistance's sagging spirits on Tuesday, the Voice of Free Libya hit back at Col.

    Libyan Rebels Flee Key Post, Retreat to Benghazi Yaroslav Trofimov 2011

  • Meanwhile, flash forward and John Connor (Christian Bale, of course) is leading his followers in the resistance against Skynet, and Kyle Reese (remember that name?) and a young, mute companion make up the entirety of the resistance's L.A. branch.

    Well, McG's "Terminator" certainly doesn't suck ... Reel Fanatic 2009

  • Meanwhile, flash forward and John Connor (Christian Bale, of course) is leading his followers in the resistance against Skynet, and Kyle Reese (remember that name?) and a young, mute companion make up the entirety of the resistance's L.A. branch.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Reel Fanatic 2009

  • As a result of the most recent Israeli military actions, 87% of all Lebanese now say they support the "resistance's fight against Israeli aggression."

    Paul Loeb: War at Home: The Seattle Shootings 2008

  • "The resistance's arms are to fight the enemy, liberate lands and prisoners, and defend Lebanon and nothing else," he pledged, referring to his group's enmity with Israel which pulled out of South Lebanon in 2000.

    Hizbullah "we will not use arms for political goals" 2008

  • I speak to you while your brothers and your sons, the Mujahedeen and the resistance's, heroic confrontations on the front lines in South Lebanon, with -- in every village and town and hill and valley and position.

    CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2006 2006

  • And Nasrallah said at the start early on in his speech that, really, divine help was, indeed, he claims, part of the resistance's victory.

    CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2006 2006

  • On its face, this "new" plan also would require remarkable cooperation and forbearance on the part of the Iraqi resistance, which has shown no inclination to ease up on its attacks on U.S. forces and on Iraq's puppet regime, and which moreover has no incentive to ease up, since it is the resistance's increasing success at attacking and killing Americans that is driving the administration to talk about withdrawal.

    Time to Play Truth and Consequences 2006

  • The resistance's success is quantifiable in terms of the reduction in oil exports.

    The Guerilla War for Iraq��s Oil 2006

  • The present strategy is aimed at "destroying the resistance's ability to wage war", by systematically laying to waste one city after another.

    Corporate Media��s threat to Freedom 2005

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