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• r  in a staunch manner
  he staunchly defended his principles

• In war and in peace, women have stood staunchly beside Viet Nam's menfolk for nearly 2,000 years.
• That crisis pitched the ruling conservative AK Party led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the staunchly secular military, which rejected the nomination of Gul, the foreign minister .
• All are staunchly opposed to medical intervention in the case of illness, preferring instead to depend upon prayer to do the healing.

• stanchly

News & Articles

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• Vaudeville Vladimir Ruins Russia
  The staunchly conservative and moralizing Russian czar, Vladimir Putin, announced he and his wife of 30 years are divorcing. This was met with a strange silence from Kirill I, the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch, and a Putin bootlicker who allowed the state to co-opt his racket. Vsevolod Chaplin, a spokesman [...]
  June 12, 2013 - Falls Church News-Press
• State Department: No cover-up for diplomats
  The State Department on Monday staunchly rejected a news report that claimed high-ranking department officials had quashed several internal investigations into allegations of sexual assault, drug dealing, prostitution solicitation and other criminal activity by American diplomatic personnel overseas in recent years. "The notion that we would not vigorously pursue criminal ...
  June 11, 2013 - The Washington Times
• Obama staunchly defends government surveillance programs
  By Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday staunchly defended U.S. government programs conducting surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet activity, insisting that they were conducted with broad safeguards to protect against abuse. "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about," Obama told ...
  June 7, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• John E Jones III in CBS News
  Accordingly, the Padres are extremely disappointed that Mike has tested positive for a stimulant banned by MLB's drug policy. Nonetheless, the Padres staunchly support that policy and hope that Mike's suspension serves as a reminder that... Sandy Alderson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Alderson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG3ypQAfYo77WB85A7PmsJEj5uE_g Sports Network http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp%3Fc%3Dsportsnetwork%26page%3D/mlb/news/AAN4110333.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFlnPFpWGmyfS2hSwmSAzlsmjItHQ Oct 31, 2007 94340 125384 staunchly The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy," Jones wrote. "It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in...
• Nancy Pelosi in ABC News
  I was raised in a large family that was devoutly Catholic, deeply patriotic, proud of our Italian-American heritage, and staunchly Democratic,Pelosi said. "My parents taught us that public service was a noble calling."