"light resistance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a degree of opposition, impediment, or difficulty that is not significantly challenging. For example, "The students encountered only light resistance as they worked to complete the task."
Military officials reported light resistance in the opening hours of combat.
If American and British troops face relatively light resistance on their drive towards Baghdad, markets worldwide could continue to gain, strategists said.
Anyone trying Kranking for the first time should do no more than 10 to 15 minutes on a light resistance, Mr. Karanas said.
The studies looked at the effects of diet, exercise — mainly light resistance training and walking — and other lifestyle interventions on maternal weight and pregnancy outcomes.
The officers said the Second Brigade force was meeting only light resistance in a rolling incursion meant to rattle the Iraqi government and destroy defenders, much like the force's advance through southern Baghdad on Saturday.
Meeting only light resistance, the predawn assault was conducted in at least two locations about 60 miles apart by more than 100 Army Ranger paratroopers and other helicopter-borne Special Forces troops.
Witnesses said the army had faced only light resistance in Hebron as dozens of tanks, armored personnel carriers and jeeps backed by helicopter gunships spread out across the city.
Iraqi television denied that the city had fallen, but an Egyptian journalist, Ashraf Fuad, reached by telephone late Thursday, said he had seen allied forces entering the town under light resistance.
In 1975, two years after Nixon had crudely bragged of having achieved "peace with honor," South Vietnam fell to a Northern attack with only the lightest resistance.
Upon illumination with red and blue lights, resistance increased whereas the exchange bias and coercive field decreased.
Encountering much lighter resistance than anticipated, the Americans seized the three hills by the morning of 22 January.
