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A fierce critic of the German Revolution and the Weimar Republic, he vehemently opposed the Treaty of Versailles, which he viewed as treason, and was a proponent of the so-called stab-in-the-back legend ( Dolchstoßlegende ), according to which the Social Democrats and Jews were to blame for Germany's defeat in the war.
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They never lived together and Mao refused to recognise her as his wife, becoming a fierce critic of arranged marriage.
Thackeray was a fierce critic of the crime fiction popular at the time, particularly that of Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
Frequently a critic of US and Soviet foreign policy, he resorted to fierce and often polarizing criticism in pinpointing his resistance towards imperialist ambitions and authoritarian regimes, including those of Francisco Franco of Spain, Gustáv Husák of Czechoslovakia, and B J Vorster and P W Botha of South Africa.
The League had resolved in 1940 to demand Pakistan — an independent state for Muslims — and was a fierce critic of the Congress.
Patel, a fierce critic of Jinnah's demand that the Hindu-majority areas of Punjab and Bengal be included in a Muslim state, obtained the partition of those provinces, thus blocking any possibility of their inclusion in Pakistan.
He was a fierce critic of Fascism but he would freely mock the promiscuous use of the word:
Years later, in 1901, Lloyd George was to go to Birmingham once more but as a fierce critic of Chamberlain and the Boer War.
A fierce critic of Marxism, he is also known in the University of Waterloo for taking part in many on-campus debates.
He was a fierce critic of secular Zionism and a proponent of Jews taking on factory work and farming.
Hillel Goldberg writes that Hutner became a fierce critic of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic group and the " personality cult built up around " its Rebbe Schneerson.
In the following years Lamont became a fierce critic of the Major government.
He was a fierce critic of pamphleteer Richard Price concerning the American rebellion.
Being a classical scholar, he was repelled by the Byzantine and later influence on Greek society and was a fierce critic of the clergy and their alleged subservience to the Ottoman Empire.
He became a fierce critic of the Indian National Congress and its acceptance of India's partition, and was one of those accused in the assassination of Indian leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
In his book Mafia State, Luke Harding, the Moscow correspondent for The Guardian from to 2007 to 2011 and a fierce critic of Russia, alleges that the FSB subjected him to continual psychological harassment, with the aim of either getting him to practice self-censorship in his reporting, or to quit the country entirely.
He was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparation obligations.
Wedekind's works are considered among the precursors of the expressionists, but in 1914, when expressionist poets like Richard Dehmel sold themselves to war propaganda, Kraus will become a fierce critic of them.
A classical scholar, Korais was repelled by the Byzantine influence in Greek society and was a fierce critic of the ignorance of the clergy and their subservience to the Ottoman Empire, although he conceded it was the Orthodox Church that preserved the national identity of Greeks.
* Ivan Rybkin, a Russian presidential candidate and fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, holds a press conference in London, stating that during his recent disappearance for several days he was drugged and made the subject of a compromising videotape.
In the GDR, although Lysenkoism was taught at some of the universities, it had very little impact on science due to the actions of a few courageous scientists ( for example, the geneticist and fierce critic of Lysenkoism, Hans Stubbe ) and an open border to West Berlin research institutions.
The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther praised Fellini ’ s “ brilliantly graphic estimation of a whole swath of society in sad decay and, eventually, a withering commentary on the tragedy of the over-civilized … Fellini is nothing if not fertile, fierce and urbane in calculating the social scene around him and packing it onto the screen.
Professor Landsbergis is a fierce critic of Russia's intentions to impose any kind of influence on the Baltic States and publicly questions Russia's actions vis a vis the Baltic States on both local and international media, as well as in the European Parliament.
Based on D. H. Lawrence, whom Huxley admired greatly, Rampion is a fierce critic of modern society.
" He has also been a fierce critic of U. S. foreign policy since the early 1980s, having helped to lead a disarmament march during the Cold War.
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The German defences in Serre were supposed to have been obliterated by sustained, heavy, British shelling during the preceding week ; however, as the battalion advanced it met with fierce resistance.
In the fierce battles against German troops on 28 – 29 April 1918 at Hauho and Tuulos, Syrjäntaka, female Red Guard platoons played a marked role.
He talked passionately on this subject, which showed his fierce German nationalism.
Paterculus described the Lombards as " more fierce than ordinary German savagery.
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest () is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U. S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and the longest single battle the U. S. Army has ever fought.
As such, the SD came into immediate, fierce competition with German military intelligence arm, the Abwehr, headed by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.
Under the leadership of the tribal chief Hendrik Witbooi, the Namaqua put up a fierce resistance to the German occupation.
The assassinations that took place during summer and autumn 1941, beginning with Colonel Pierre-Georges Fabien's shooting of a German officer in the Paris Métro, caused fierce reprisals and the executions of hundreds of French hostages.
Despite fierce fighting, the British were overwhelmed and the survivors were evacuated by Royal Navy destroyers while under direct German gunfire.
The count remained a fierce opponent of the Salian rulers, and upon the extinction of the line, his son Louis I was elevated to the rank of a Landgrave in Thuringia by the new German king Lothair of Supplinburg in 1131.
At the same time, in 1961 when the German historian Fritz Fischer published Griff nach der Weltmacht, which established that Germany had caused the First World War led to the fierce " Fischer Controversy " that tore apart the West German historical profession.
But the battle for Ortona took another week of fierce house to house fighting as the German 3rd Parachute Regiment tenaciously held on before withdrawing to the other side of he Riccio river on 28 December.
After the intervention of René Cassin, the vice-president of the Conseil d ' État, who pointed his fierce opposition to the German occupation, his citizen rights were restored on 5 October 1945.
One night, in the midst of a fierce storm, IRB leader Tim O ' Leary ( Barry Foster )– who had killed a police constable earlier – and a small band of comrades arrive in Ryan's pub and strong-arm him into helping them recover a shipment of German arms from the storm.
One of the first major tests for the VVS came in 1936 with the Spanish Civil War, in which the latest aircraft designs, both Soviet and German, were employed against each other in fierce air-to-air combat.
The next day 3rd Parachute Brigade's entire front was subjected to fierce artillery bombardment and assaults by German tanks and infantry, with the Germans particularly focusing on the positions held by 9th Parachute Battalion.
" Thälmann returned as a candidate in the second round of the election, as it was permitted by the German electoral law, but his vote count lessened from 4, 983, 000 ( 13. 2 %), in the first round, to 3, 707, 000 ( 10. 2 %), which seems to indicate that, despite his fierce opposition, Hindenburg received a substantial number of communist votes.
Colonel John Boettiger who worked in the War Department explained to Morgenthau how the American troops who had had to fight for five weeks against fierce German resistance to capture the city of Aachen had complained to him that the Morgenthau Plan was " worth thirty divisions to the Germans.
German resistance was fierce, as they launched small counterattacks and used armor to halt American movements.
In fields where the competition for study places is less fierce, the selection system resembles the German model.
The Convention's work was disrupted in March 1918 by Redmond's death and the fierce German Spring Offensive on the Western Front, causing Britain to attempt to extend conscription to Ireland unwisely linked with immediate implementation of Home Rule.
The sculpture was originally to depict islanders releasing doves of peace, but this came under fierce criticism, with some islanders remarking that had any doves been on the island during the occupation, they would have been eaten by starving German soldiers.
In 1940, during the German invasion of France, Cassel was the scene of a fierce three-day battle between British and German forces which resulted in much of the town being destroyed.
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