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In the main square is a striking bust of Hatuey, the brave Indian leader who resisted early conquistadores until he was caught by the Spanish and burned at the stake.
NATO troops arrested a Bosnian Serb war criminal and killed another who resisted arrest.
Historically, LSC directives were seen by grantees as antithetical to their mission, so they resisted change while nonetheless remaining largely dependent on the waning federal investment.
It’s hard to imagine a faith more hostile to all idolatry, fierce in its uncompromising monotheism, and opposed to the caste system as Islam When sufi mystics or the emperor Akbar tried to create a synthesis between the two faiths, the orthodox on both sides resisted.
Throughout the 1920s and '30s, the central government in Belgrade pushed Albanians out of the region and moved Serbs in--efforts the Albanian majority resisted, often to their peril.