Led by the Dutch, they fought a rearguard action to preserve something of the semi-automatic weapon.
Vociferous groups, both on the left and the right, are still fighting a rearguard action.
Betty Boothroyd, the speaker, fights a sustained rearguard action to preserve the Commons of yore.
ONE-TIME SHOCK, THEN PROSPERITY The vast majority of electric utilities are fighting a ferocious rearguard action against true deregulation.
But one Oldenburg company, despite being listed in Frankfurt, has been fighting a rearguard action against modern capitalism.
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It would nevertheless be wrong to portray Mr O'Neill as fighting a lone rearguard action against foreign aid.
This law can be expected to face violent resistance as well as a rearguard action in the courts.
Vociferous Israeli groups, both on the left and the right, are still fighting a rearguard action against the plan.
The European Commission is fighting a rearguard action to force farmers to work in a way that benefits the environment.
If McCain wins, conservatives say he'll be fighting a rearguard action against expanding the right to sue, not reining it in.
The Dragons' rearguard action was not helped by Brew earning a yellow card for interference, leaving space in behind that Shanklin exploited.
Centurion Andy Flower led a spirited rearguard action in the morning session.
During the rearguard action goalscorer Collins fell awkwardly and was forced to limp off a minute before half-time, to be replaced by Craig Morgan.
The forces of reaction are now mounting a belated rearguard action.
But Paul Collingwood dug in to score a painstaking 40 from 188 balls, and he and Bell batted together for 57 overs in a stunning rearguard action.
Its chairman, Ed Jenkins, has been running a rearguard action against plans to harmonise international accounting standards, because he believes that standards overseas are not tough enough.
But the rearguard action in favour of Nick Clegg was being staged just 12 hours before the counts started for the referendum on changing the voting system to AV.
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While it battles bin Laden's al-Qaeda network abroad, the agency has been fighting a ferocious rearguard action at home to keep the CTC independent of the new Department of Homeland Security.
But it was the dismissal of Nevland that had changed the course of the game and, while Fulham had a measure of control beforehand, they were forced into a rearguard action after the dismissal.
Mr Smith, the culture secretary, initially strongly favoured this approach, but the tourism industry has mounted an effective rearguard action, arguing that avant-garde artists are never going to be as big sellers as history.
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After that it's on to a committee-stage debate on the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill - with Labour continuing their rearguard action against the cap on benefit increases to 1% - below the rate of inflation.
Birmingham boss Alex McLeish will no doubt feel his side deserved their victory, not least for their hugely impressive rearguard action, although no-one could argue they were slightly fortunate to be ahead at the interval.
In the US, it will strengthen the argument of those fighting a rearguard action from the banks to water down the Volcker rule, which is supposed to prevent banks taking big investments for their own account.
Hernych was playing in the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time in 19 attempts and launched a gallant rearguard action towards the end, but Soderling rarely needed to move out of first gear.
At a conference in Washington DC in 1884, the French fought a valiant rearguard action but only Brazil and Santa Domingo thought they had a case, and France, reluctantly, adjusted its clocks to the emerging reality of Anglo-Saxon supremacy.
The Italians forced Spurs into a dogged rearguard action for long spells to protect the slender lead Peter Crouch's goal gave them from the first leg in the San Siro and ensure they succeeded where arch-rivals Arsenal failed in European combat.
It has been especially active in environmental cases, where lawyers are fighting a rearguard action on behalf of communities affected by environmental degradation, and in property-law disputes, where the vast expansion of home-ownership has caused many conflicts between the new owners and property developers or the state.
But while Durham launched a rearguard action at Chester-le-Street to frustrate Somerset and hold on for a draw, Notts picked up the six bonus points they needed by scoring 400 and taking three wickets on the final day which, coupled with three points for a draw, handed them the title.
He says the point of his rearguard action is not to defend the hereditaries but to ensure that the reformed house is at least as independent as the present one, and that the government does not use its newly announced royal commission as an excuse to abolish the hereditaries and then do nothing to fill the vacuum.
On more occasions than even he cares to remember, Lord Steel has proposed a bill which would allow peers to retire, to be expelled from the House if convicted of serious criminal offences, and to exclude the 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in it... that last provision was pulled in the face of a determined rearguard action, the last time the bill went through.
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