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That has drawn resistance from some union members because of how it would affect job seniority and work assignments.

Mr. Sarkozy called for a "framework" of regulation to govern the Internet globally, an initiative that has drawn resistance from Internet companies.

20 Minutes, which is the largest general-interest daily in France, has an even smaller staff; plans to shrink it further have drawn resistance from employees, who went on strike last month, blocking publication for one day.

The proposal has sparked a fierce debate inside the Bush administration and drawn resistance from an array of cabinet agencies, causing Mr. Ridge to back off from an initial effort to get the agency consolidation into the president's new budget, officials said.

Even so, the closings drew resistance.

Movement director of Bennett's adaptation of the Wind in the Willows at the National Theatre, whose improvisational methods drew resistance from Michael Bryant, cast in the role of Badger.

The memorandum said the treatment of the black Seminoles was "a very sensitive matter" and hinted that an effort to exclude them might draw resistance in Congress.

Despite recent efforts to push back the beginning of the fashion season by at least a week to give New York designers more time to prepare, an idea that drew resistance from designers in Milan, the show dates are not changing.

Small crowds greeted him virtually everywhere, and his attacks on Mr. Romney's "vulture capitalism," the phrase the governor used to describe his rival's career as a corporate takeover artist at Bain Capital, drew resistance from voters and pundits.

13 NEW YORK/REGION 27-33 Environmentalists Criticize Plan to Buy Diesel Buses A plan by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to order hundreds of diesel-powered buses for New York City is drawing resistance from environmentalists and legislators, who say it will increase smog and health problems.

But the 2009 rule drew resistance from the securities industry, and Finra is expected to release a proposal in August that will make it easier for those unidentified brokers to scrub their records in cases where there has been a full hearing and a decision by the arbitrators.