When local business and governmental leaders resisted Defending the boycott , SCLC agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to assist Assistance .

The Covenanters raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale a large army from the dependants of their landed class and successfully resisted Defending Charles I 's attempt to impose Action his will on Scotland in the so-called Bishops Wars .

Both the Yugoslav Partisans and the Chetnik movement initially resisted Defending the occupation .

The French crews resisted Defending , but the British boarding parties successfully captured Conquering all three vessels without suffering Bodily_harm any casualties Killing .

The municipality had not given Giving a permit and as a result Leaf , along with eleven other activists , were arrested Arrest when they resisted Defending the twenty policemen and municipal inspectors who arrived Arriving to dismantle Destroying the tents which were confiscated Surrendering .

The first siege , in August 1707 , resulted in Causation the destruction Destroying of the town , but Fort San Carlos de Austria successfully resisted Defending the onslaught .

French shore batteries and a gunboat resisted Defending the German intrusion but were greatly outgunned .

Despite repeated setbacks , the Saxons resisted Defending steadfastly , returning to raid Charlemagne 's domains as soon as he turned his attention elsewhere .

The towns of Bristol and Warren , Rhode Island were significantly damaged Damaging , and Freetown , Massachusetts ( present-day Fall River ) was also attacked Attack , although its militia resisted Defending British attacks more successfully .

Depending on the degree to which Japanese civilians would have resisted Defending the invasion Attack , estimates ran Self_motion up into the millions for Allied casualties Death .

Charles was a skilled military leader , and probably considered the invasion Attack to be a risky enterprise ; he had resisted Defending the advice of his generals to invade Attack during the Russian winter following Self_motion the first Battle of Narva ( 1700 ) .

although the battlefront now lay in the border area , the port city of unk inside unk resisted Defending the axis advance , and its substantial australian and british garrison constituted a significant threat Warning to rommel 's lengthy supply chain .

These farmers resisted Defending the tax .

During the engagement Hostile_encounter the British convoy resisted Defending strongly and suffered Causation heavy casualties Bodily_harm but two ships were eventually forced to surrender .

Despite the uneven nature of the combat , `` Bellone '' unexpectedly resisted Defending the British attack Attack for another hour and 45 minutes , causing Causation more damage Damaging to `` Powerful '' than she received Receiving herself .

Occupying defensive Defending positions throughout the lava beds south of Tule Lake ( in present-day Lava Beds National Monument ) , those few warriors resisted Defending for months the more numerous United States Army forces sent Sending against them , which were reinforced Cause_change_of_strength with artillery .

However more recently historians have taken a broader perspective noting that the Habsburgs at the same time resisted Defending internal separatist movements , and were battling Hostile_encounter Prussia and France for control of central Europe .

The governmental troops resisted Defending , but the attack Attack was both surprising Change_sentiment and fierce .

Armenia resisted Defending until the Allied forces won WWI .

On 13 September the Italians of the 33rd `` Acqui '' Infantry Division resisted Defending , and fought Hostile_encounter the Germans on the island of Cephalonia .

The isolated Russian forces resisted Defending in several areas for two more days .

The Riffian populations strongly resisted Defending the Spanish , unleashing Process_start a conflict Hostile_encounter that would last Process_end for several years .

Together with the UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher , who had resisted Defending the invasion by Argentina of the Falkland Islands a decade earlier , American President George H. W. Bush deployed Arranging US forces into Saudi Arabia , and urged Convincing other countries to send Sending their own forces to the scene .

The Republic resisted Defending this incursion ; but , left without allies and betrayed by many of the mercenaries in her employ Employment , Florence was unable to keep Temporary_stay fighting indefinitely .