Word: ardente
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...state with only six votes and no seniority isn't going to get far. Six votes won't stop a speeding train. I guess people just don't understand we're six out of 435. You've got to have power and seniority to get anywhere." Schroeder, an ardent opponent of term limits, won re-election three weeks ago even as her state voted to tighten its 1990 federal strictures and also extend limits to all locally elected officials...
Even the most ardent Democrat must admit that open disrespect for the United States armed forces represents a dubious qualification to become the Commander in chief of those armed forces...
...emerging market: 1.2 billion potential consumers for cars, TV sets, patio furniture, all the stuff we've already got. This is the era of global investing, it is said, and the sophisticated investor can't afford to ignore China, an exciting economy with a great future, because the most ardent capitalists you'll ever meet are the Chinese communists...
...that might come back to the district in the form of pork. Stockman, who had been trounced by Brooks in 1992, saw his chance and tried again. Some Republicans in Texas ignored him as a wild man. (Stockman unfurled posters that said FIGHT CRIME. SHOOT BACK.) But he found ardent support among the pro-lifers, term-limit advocates, and gun owners, angry at Brooks' vote for the crime bill. And the giant fell: Brooks won only 46% of the vote...
...excellent. Possessing a voice that is lithe and ripe, mezzo-soprano Maria Ewing was born to sing the title role, and she delivers a performance of untamed carnality. Slovak bass Sergei Koptchak is outstanding as her lecherous father-in-law, and Russian tenor Vladimir Galouzine is appropriately ardent as the lover. In the pit, conductor James Conlon and the Met orchestra rejoice in the score's raw power...