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"The aid also aims to support Islamic Jihad as a resistance movement in the face of Israel," Mr. Abusada added.

You have a set of Syrian activist networks that have sustained a peaceful protest movement in the face of every horror this police state could throw at them.

LGBT and civil rights groups are mobilising for a nationwide battle to safeguard the gains of the marriage equality movement, in the face of a gathering backlash that is spreading anti-gay bills across the country.

Lately, the authorities seem to have singled out two groups in particular: journalists, including political and cultural reporters and editors, and women's rights activists, who have years of experience in organizing and maintaining a movement in the face of a hostile government.

Such a vision is a necessity for the Democratic coalition to have any chance of persevering, as a political movement, in the face of obstacles and setbacks, of which there will be many more in the years — and, sad to say, the months — to come.

A26 Internet Terror Tape Surfaces An audiotape was posted on the Internet in which a man identified as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist leader, condemned the Sunni Muslim clerical establishment in Iraq and elsewhere for abandoning the Iraqi resistance movement in the face of the American military offensive.

There have been movement restrictions in the face of specific disease outbreaks: nationwide during the 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic and more locally during the smaller 2007 epidemic; and from September 2007 onwards to tackle bluetongue.

How have the leaders and unsung heroes of world-changing political movements persevered in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds?

Aged 66 and plagued by both cardiac asthma and arthritis, she now faced the prospect of accompanying her husband in unceasing movement across the face of Europe, spending her last years virtually alone in alien and uncomfortable lodgings".

A weakened polar vortex has allowed the trapped air to spill out of the Arctic and hurtle south in an anti-clockwise movement across the face of the US.

But it also showed movement by the administration, in the face of the resistance of its allies, toward accepting the arms inspections as a means to force President Saddam Hussein to relinquish weapons of mass destruction.