Word: staunchest
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...split. But with the election last fall of councillors E. Denise Simmons and Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87—both councillors supported by members of the Campaign for a Democratic Future—the voting age initiative gained two of its staunchest advocates...
Drug companies are among the Administration's staunchest allies, the source of more than $12 million for Bush and the G.O.P. in the past election (compared with $5.5 million for the Democrats). A PHRma spokesman says his group took no position on the Wood nomination and denied that the e-mail to drug execs was a call to arms, describing it as "informational." Other industry sources, however, say PHRma coordinated lobbying by CEOs from major companies, who called such key Administration figures as political adviser Karl Rove and Budget Director Mitch Daniels, a former top official of Eli Lilly...
...close 5-4 split. But with the election last fall of councillors E. Denise Simmons and Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87—both councillors supported by members of the Campaign for a Democratic Future—the measure gained two of its staunchest supporters...
...dominoes begin to tumble, Kirch may have to give up significant parts of the conglomerate he built from scratch over more than four decades. And, should the controversy taint friends who helped him along the way, he may not be the only high-profile casualty. One of his staunchest backers is Edmund Stoiber, premier of Bavaria and the opposition candidate set to challenge Gerhard Schr?der for the German chancellorship in September...
Similarly, many scholars have suggested that one of the United States’ staunchest regional Muslim allies, Saudi Arabia, may also be heading towards an Islamic revolution à la Iran in 1979, stemming from the steady decline of support for the more cooperative government from the relatively conservative population...