Previous attempts to phase out the payment method have encountered stiff resistance from both individual and business customers.

Often, when the unspoken rules are broken, my clients encounter stiff resistance.

Ill-disciplined and untrained, they were meeting stiff resistance from government troops who have nowhere left to retreat.

Some attempts to modernise the game have met stiff resistance.

In the education sector, too, the idea of performance-related pay has been met with stiff resistance.