From the restaurant, it seemed a pageant of Iraq's wider drama, with the grim-faced resistance men looking out at the Americans driving by with flags fluttering from radio antennas, helmeted soldiers with wraparound goggles at their turrets, machine-gunners swiveling, watching for trouble.
A telegram from the Canton Council said: "Only grim war and resistance can save China, since an appeal to the League and conciliation have failed".
The frightened townsfolk — top executives from the biggest media companies and advertising agencies in the world — debated in whispers their grim choice between bloody resistance or total surrender.
Once Russia entered the war, the French Communists, as passive as any until then, took up violent resistance, with grim consequences.
That spring had brought the good news that Klaus was alive and in Switzerland after a period working for the French resistance, and the grim tidings that Wolfgang was dead, having committed suicide five years earlier.
Paradoxically, while there is great clinical need that will only get more acute given the inexorability of the evolution of drug resistance, these are grim times for the antibiotic drug discovery field [ 10].
The comedy is grim, as is the exhausted gallantry of Churchill's resistance.
If Ronny Deila had not been so grim-faced and concerned at the alarming lack of resistance amongst his own players, he would have admired Salzburg's accomplishment.
They said the war in Iraq had already provided some warning signs of potential terrorism that could become a grim reality in postwar Iraq, where some analysts fear that resistance could seriously undermine reconstruction efforts.
The scene seemed to illustrate the plight of Mr. Hussein's government, whose army has mustered little effective resistance in the capital despite much oratory about the grim fate awaiting American soldiers.
