Sentences with phrase «such stiff resistance»

The commission has held educational workshops in dioceses around the world, but has faced such stiff resistance to some of its proposals at the Vatican that its most prominent member, Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins, resigned in frustration in March.

And since almost everyone you ask will say it's not all OK, then why put up such stiff resistance for 1 thing in a book that has lots of other (unquestionably) good things to guide human behavior?

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Mr. Cuomo himself backed away from such a proposal after hitting stiff resistance from Mr. de Blasio and the press, and said instead that he hoped to streamline the university bureaucracy, an idea Mr. Heastie voiced support for today.

Such proposals, however, have met stiff resistance in the Legislature, especially in the GOP - controlled Senate.