Word: staunchest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ties? Or will his attempts to woo the right-wingers of his party alienate Independents? McCain’s recent flip-flop on torture suggests that he is trying to attract the right-wing Republican vote. That seems to explain why McCain, one of the nation’s staunchest opponents of torture, voted not to pass an anti-torture bill.This came as a surprise for those who know of McCain’s long battle with the Bush administration and members of his own party to ban the use of torture by the United States. Once a prisoner...
...would die. Andyou can’t send someone off to die withouttalking about it fi rst.RR: What is your angriest scene in the play?JM: My angriest scene in the play is the fi nale for act one, where I am baitingJuror #3, who is my staunchest opponent. Juror #3 is allowing personal feelings ofhis own past to cloud the issue, and Juror #8 is very well aware of that.RR: Is there anything you think about to mentally prepare for angry scenes?JM: Not really. I think about the character and the situation.RR: What’s the angriest...
...Despite the efforts of its founders and staunchest backers within the Medical School, the battle to keep HMI within Harvard was tipped against them after Summers left office...
...disparaging of President Bush's eight-day tour of the Middle East by America's staunchest opponents in the region was hardly unexpected. Iran's foreign minister claimed it was designed to give Israel a green light "to perpetrate new crimes" against Palestinians. Lebanon's most senior Shi'ite cleric accused Bush of "war crimes." A prominent jihadist web site called the President "this criminal, butcher and murderer of our blood...
...Minister John Howard. With 77% of votes counted in Sydney's Bennelong district, Howard trailed by several hundred votes. In an emotional speech Nov. 24 Howard took full responsibility for the conservatives' defeat. Then one of Australia's most successful leaders - and one of President George W. Bush's staunchest western allies - walked off the stage and into retirement...