Opposition to
Resistance and opposition to are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Resistance" with "Opposition to", this terms are similar.
Resistance
Resistance noun - The inclination to resist.
Opposition to and resistance are semantically related. You can use "Opposition to" instead a noun "Resistance".
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Presumably this is because the main opposition to the Alliance are small resistance groups, so warships would be expensive and inefficient.
Source: Anime / Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Before that, opposition to the Empire was a scattered group of resistance groups that often didn't get along with each other, let alone work together on any kind of coherent plan.
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With great reluctance, Jane falls in with the oddly inactive resistance led by Elwin Ransom — the only opposition to the NICE's (literally) diabolical plans.If you get the feeling that this one is a hackjob copy of 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, you actually have it backwards.
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