Word: staunchest
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...Northern Ireland's police force was a primary target for the Provisional IRA during the Troubles. Overwhelmingly Protestant in its membership, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was detested by many Catholics, with the staunchest republican neighborhoods effectively becoming no-go areas for RUC officers. Over 300 policemen and women were murdered during Northern Ireland's 30-year conflict. (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...
Surprisingly, the leaders of the very movement Jaruzelski crushed agree--and have emerged among his staunchest defenders. Former activist Kazimierz Kutz, now a member of parliament, says Jaruzelski's actions allowed moderates on both sides to prevail, eventually leading to the Round Table talks that brought a peaceful end to Poland's communist regime in 1989. Even Lech Walesa, the legendary Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was interned for almost a year in the clampdown, has said that Jaruzelski would have been considered a "great patriot" had he lived in different times and that the trial...
...eventually saw some 90 people killed, and around 10,000 detained in internment camps. But as Jaruzelski and six other former top officials set out their defense in a criminal trial over their coup and crackdown, many of the former leaders of Solidarity have emerged among the general's staunchest defenders. In a bizarre twist of history, the leaders of the very movement Jaruzelski sought to crush 27 years ago now say he was right, at the time, to curb Solidarity's growing appetite for power...
...virtue of how productive he is as a player, how inspirational he is as a captain and as a defensive playmaker, I think everybody around him…[walks] a little bit taller.”To begin attacking the problem of the league’s staunchest defense, Pizzotti will need to use a mix of young receivers and junior Matt Luft—as well as his height advantage—while keeping the D honest with occasional runs. The duo of junior Ben Jenkins and sophomore Gino Gordon has yet to establish itself against a legitimate league...
...Barack Obama would be a president who will bring real change to this country. He’s even reached across the hallway—without preconditions—to show the video to our eight-year-old sister, Lilah, proving that bipartisan cooperation is possible even between the staunchest of adversaries. Now, she too has a sense of this election’s importance...