Word: staunchly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University has proven itself a staunch opponent of its own workers and unions at virtually every turn this year...
...University has proven itself a staunch opponent of its own workers and unions at virtually every turn this year...
...wealth and his political connections and apparatus are also under increasing scrutiny. He never seems to lack funds with which to fly or bus squads of converts wherever he needs them. Strongly antiCommunist, Moon orates frequently about politics. An industrialist back home in South Korea, he is staunch in his support of President Park Chung Hee, and during...
...dollar and a close of 4.72, v. 4.551 the week before last. That was the first stage in a decline that moneymen thought might eventually come to 10%. The drop seriously embarrassed the government of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. It was Giscard, a staunch proponent of currency stability, who had brought France back into the snake last July, over the objections of his top economic advisers...
...organization is an outgrowth of a deepening unease and a new political awareness among the country's 22,000 officers. The military men are split on what their role should be in the nation's life. Most generals are veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Staunch Franquistas, they want to maintain the boot-clicking discipline of the old regime and may well demand severely repressive measures if social disorder continues. Many of the junior officers have basically been apolitical-docile career men satisfied to lend nominal support to the status quo. But some are beginning to question that...