We couldn't grasp the logic of following a heroic three-day resistance with retreat.

The town's heroic resistance to the Turks, who besieged it twice both from the sea and land in the mid-1820s, became a legend.

So three overs to go, four to win, and New Zealand's heroic resistance appears to be over.

After a brief but heroic resistance, the fort's defenders were overrun.

On one planet a colony had put up a heroic resistance and died to the last man.

Not without great and heroic resistance was civilisation borne down.

Though outnumbered by 20 to one their heroic resistance gave American forces time to regroup.

And I thought he just wanted us, to test our heroic resistance!

But few were ready to engage in heroic resistance to the last.

When the town fell despite heroic resistance, it was a blow to the Republicans in more ways than one.