He was a fierce opponent of anti-semitism and supported the unconditional acceptance and integration of the Jews in Europe.

To withstand Saxon overlordship Wenceslaus ' father Vratislaus had forged an alliance with the Bavarian duke Arnulf the Bad, then a fierce opponent of King Henry ; however, it became worthless when Arnulf and Henry reconciled at Regensburg in 921.

His fierce opponent Bernard Saisset, bishop of Pamiers, said of him, " He is neither man nor beast.

The country's form of government is a dictatorship, under the rule of ailing president " Papa " Monzano, who is a staunch ally of the United States and a fierce opponent of communism.

He also experienced personal problems with former ally Itamar Franco, his predecessor that later became Governor of Minas Gerais and a fierce opponent of his administrative reforms that saw the states lose its capacity to contract debt and forced a reduction on local government spending.

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.

Otto was active on the Austrian and European political stage from the 1930s, both by promoting the cause of Habsburg restoration and as an early proponent of European integration — being thoroughly disgusted with nationalism — and a fierce opponent of Nazism and communism.

The Emden-Eybeschutz controversy was a serious rabbinical disputation with wider political ramifications in Europe that followed the accusations by Rabbi Jacob Emden ( 1697 – 1776 ) who was a fierce opponent of the Sabbateans, against Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz ( 1690 – 1764 ) whom he accused of being a secret Sabbatean.

Fordice ( a Republican and fierce political opponent ) nearly died in his own car accident.

Labor activists, however, knew him as a fierce opponent of unionization.

In 1883, he succeeded Albrecht von Stosch-a fierce opponent of Chancellor Bismarck-as Chief of the Imperial Navy.

A key part of the campaign was to secure Labour Party support ( Herbert Morrison was a fierce opponent of the Daily Worker ).

Peabody was a fierce opponent of unions and of any social legislation that limited businesses ' right to run their own affairs as they saw fit.

Odría, a fierce opponent of APRA, was appointed Minister of Government and Police.

He was a fierce opponent of the policies of the Earl of Leicester, the governor ‐ general at the time, and instead favoured Maurice of Nassau, a son of William.

Grant supervised the Army of the Potomac ( which was formally led by his subordinate, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade ) in delivering the final blows to the Confederacy by engaging Confederate forces in many fierce battles in Virginia, the Overland Campaign, conducting a war of attrition that the larger Union Army was able to survive better than its opponent.

He came to consider the ACS as working against the interests of American blacks, and became a fierce opponent of re-Africanization.

'" Rice became a fierce opponent of the National Council of Churches, the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, and prominent liberal ministers, such as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Nels Ferré, and G. Bromley Oxnam.

Although a fierce opponent of black majority rule and Communism, his government did make concessions towards political reform, whereas internal unrest saw widespread human rights abuses on the hands of the government as well as the militant opposition.

After Frederick II of Prussia had conquered Silesia in 1742, his fierce opponent Maria Theresa of Austria once again stroke back in the course of the Seven Years ' War: In 1760 Austrian troops under the command of field marshal Laudon invaded the province and on June 23 defeated a Prussian corps under Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué at the Battle of Landeshut.

In 1979 Murphy was a fierce opponent of Devolution.

He is well known for his strong euroscepticism and was, through the work of the Convention, a fierce opponent of the official drafts being prepared by the presidium of the Convention, criticising them as being too federalist.

In time, Milo Đukanović became a fierce opponent of Milošević's regime, thus gaining worldwide support and sympathy for Montenegro.

Baxter was also a fierce opponent of the Ku Klux Klan of Maine, which supported the career of his political nemesis and successor Owen Brewster.

They both possess near classic stances, dug in firmly, arms high, set for fierce swings.

Hitler's fierce anti-Soviet rhetoric was one of the reasons why the UK and France decided that Soviet participation in the 1938 Munich Conference regarding Czechoslovakia would be both dangerous and useless.

The plan met with fierce opposition in both countries and was condemned vigorously by a large number of countries.

: I never discussed it with Warren, but I believe we were both standing for same reason — out of regard for the creativity, the stamina and the many fierce battles and lonely nights that had gone into the man's twenty motion pictures.

Fighting until dark was fierce but inconclusive as both sides attempted to maneuver in the dense woods.

The ensuing battle was fierce, with heavy casualties on both sides, but when Henry Percy himself was struck down and killed, his own forces fled.

In both the animated films and all subsequent television series, they are also depicted as looking like elephants, albeit slightly cuddlier and less fierce than those Pooh imagines in the books and with rabbit-like tails.

In a fierce firefight, the federals gunned down the guerrillas, both those still awake and those who had succumbed to the gas.

No one firm controlled the industry, and fierce competition ensured that innovation in both hardware and software was the rule rather than the exception.

The film concludes with both of the fighters throwing their first punch simultaneously, but this time, they fight in the spirit of friendly competition rather than as fierce rivals.

The fighting was fierce as, unlike earlier, both sides fought hard.

They sealed its doom by inviting in among them ( like wolves in to the sheep fold ), the fierce and impious Saxons a race hurtful both to God and men, to repel the invasions of the northern nations.

In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal caused both to use yellow journalism for wider appeal ; it opened the way to mass circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue and appealed to readers with multiple forms of news, entertainment and advertising.

Originally fierce competitors, by 1855 both groups were finally convinced that consolidation was their only alternative for progress.

Merchant chose to name the album Tigerlily as she felt it captured the feel of the album, which she described as both " fierce " and " delicate ".

The winds were fierce on and overnight, giving both fleets pause.

A swift drive was followed by fierce fighting to the south during the first two days of the advance, with both sides taking heavy losses.

Historians dispute whether his fierce opposition to Zionism was grounded in nationalism or antisemitism or a combination of both.

The vast painting — it measures 10 by 22 feet ( 3. 1 by 6. 6 meters )— drew both praise and fierce denunciations from critics and the public, in part because it upset convention by depicting a prosaic ritual on a scale which previously would have been reserved for a religious or royal subject.

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.

Despite the ideological similarity of the two parties, the clash of egos both inside and outside the National Assembly became increasingly fierce, starting with the Federal governments decision to oust the NAP provincial government in Balochistan Province for alleged secessionist activities and culminating in the banning of the party and arrest of much of its leadership after the death of a close lieutenant of Bhutto's, Hayat Sherpao, in a bomb blast in the frontier town of Peshawar.

In the face of fierce competition from both home and abroad all these traditional industries rapidly declined.

The next four games were drawn, despite fierce play from both players.

One of the episodes in Erich Kästner's " The 35 May " depicts Wallenstein in his afterlife being engaged in a fierce war with Hannibal and emphasizes both generals ' callous disregard for the lives of their soldiers-underlining Kästner's pacifist views.