Anyway some of these positions were not shared by many members of the party, most of whom staunchly opposed stem cell research and artificial insemination.

Although Hezbollah had joined the new government in 2005, it remained staunchly opposed to the March 14 Alliance.

He was staunchly opposed to government ownership of business.

The Swedish Crown Prince Charles XIV John of Sweden | Charles John ( Bernadotte ), who staunchly opposed Norwegian independence, only to offer generous terms of union After brief fighting, the peace established a personal union between the two states.

Former President Ulysses S. Grant, an ally of Sen. Conkling, notified President Garfield by letter that he disapproved of Blaine's nomination and staunchly opposed Garfield's appointment of Robertson as the port of New York's customs collector.

She staunchly opposed the Republican's Head Start program overhaul in the 108th Congress, invoking her experience growing up poor and challenged by a speech impediment.

However, after Stalin's death in 1953 Molotov was staunchly opposed to Khrushchev's de-Stalinisation policy.

This unique relationship makes them less likely to leave, makes the land more valuable, and makes them even more staunchly opposed to polluting it in any way.

In the ensuing years ( particularly post-1995 ), there has been interest in resuming passenger service by Bucks County officials ; however, neighboring Montgomery County officials are staunchly opposed to it.

When the Muslims proposed the creation of an Islamic-majority Pakistan, many Sikhs staunchly opposed the concept.

However, he was staunchly opposed to the League of Nations.

The Elector of Saxony was staunchly opposed to the idea.

" Reactions were mixed among students, employees and alumni, many of whom were staunchly opposed to the name.

The Japanese envoy for his part describes the contemporary relationship with the various Emishi: those who had allied themselves with the Yamato court ( known as niki-emishi, i. e. " gentle Emishi "), those who remained as enemies staunchly opposed to Yamato ( known as ara-emishi, i. e. " rough Emishi " or " wild Emishi "), and the distant Tsugaru Emishi ( located in present-day northern Aomori and in southern Hokkaidō ).

" He was staunchly opposed to the British government's insistence that Rhodesia introduce majority rule before independence, and believed that " Perfidious Albion " ( as he called it ) was going back on numerous promises of independence for Rhodesia.

" America First staunchly opposed the convoying of ships, the Atlantic Charter, and the placing of economic pressure on Japan.

There were contrasting view about his theological position: on the one hand, he was exiled three times under Arian emperors ; on the other, he was strongly opposed by those faithful to the memory of the staunchly pro-Nicene Eustathius of Antioch, whom the synod of Melitene deposed for his Homousianism ( Nicene trinitarianism ), which they considered a heresy, and by Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, the firm opponent of Arianism.

He thus believed that true Rightists should aid the spread of Communism and Third World anti-colonial movements wherever possible, and he remained staunchly opposed to the government and culture of the United States, which he did not even consider to be truly Western in nature.

Birney staunchly opposed this resolution and it was defeated, though a new resolution was soon after drafted and passed, despite Birney's opposition yet again.

Because DSP was staunchly opposed to the invasion of Iraq by the US, a campaign to divide the DSP and force a change of government in Turkey was started.

French remained staunchly loyal to the Soviet Union though privately he opposed the Khrushchev line.

She staunchly opposed granting civil unions and marriage for same-sex couples.

He staunchly opposed popular demands for peace at any cost and firmly clung to Russia's wartime alliances.

Suspicious of his family friend Woodrow Wilson's project of spreading democracy and of imperialism, he was staunchly opposed to the war, and upon returning to the U. S., he saw that many of the provisions of, " the Treaty of Versailles constituted an attack upon international and interracial peace .... ar will follow upon war in a wearisome progression.

Indeed he was never rich, but he staunchly defended the rights of the monks at St. Catherine's Monastery when he persuaded them eventually to send the manuscript to the Tsar.

However, the Britannica has also staunchly defended a scientific approach to emotional topics, as it did with William Robertson Smith's articles on religion in the 9th edition, particularly his article stating that the Bible was not historically accurate ( 1875 ).

He was staunchly Presbyterian, even though his family was Roman Catholic.

The decrypts showed that there was much tension in Anglo-Polish relations with the British pressuring the Poles to allow Danzig to rejoin the Reich and the Poles staunchly resisting all efforts to pressure them into concessions to Germany.

Several of these articles advocated his staunchly feminist views, calling for the liberation of women in Chinese society ; alongside his early experiences with forced arranged marriage, this was possibly influenced by the recent death of his mother and his increasing romantic involvement with Yang Kaihui ( 1901 – 1930 ), the daughter of Mao's recently deceased mentor Yang Changji.

In interviews, Speight explained he had originally based Alf on his father, an East End docker who was staunchly reactionary and held " unenlightened " attitudes toward black people.

An alternative view of these events was proposed by an American historian Stephen Christopher Rowell, where he believes that Gediminas never intended to become a Christian himself, since that would have offended the staunchly pagan inhabitants of Žemaitija and Aukštaitija.

Louis XIV was staunchly Catholic and he revoked the Edict of Nantes on 18 October 1685, undoing the religious tolerance established by grandfather, Henry IV, almost a hundred years before.

First of all, he was staunchly anti-slavery, despite coming from an area of Spanish America that relied heavily on slave labor.

A staunchly conservative Catholic, he was having dinner with the Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber and the Nuncio to Bavaria, Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli ( who would later become Pope Pius XII ), when he learned of the putsch.

Internationally, the Republic was now seen as being staunchly anti-communist and a potential ally in the emerging global Cold War between the American-led ' free world ' and the Soviet-led bloc.

Collins was nominally Episcopalian, while Finnegan came from a staunchly Roman Catholic family.

During the American Civil War, Concordia Parish was staunchly Confederate.

His father, Soong Ta ( 宋達 ), was a career military officer staunchly loyal to ROC President Chiang Kai-shek and rose to the rank of Major General in the Nationalist Army from an enlisted sailor.

Like most of Middle and West Tennessee, Waverly was staunchly pro-Confederacy during the American Civil War.

During the U. S. Civil War, Scott County was staunchly pro-Union.

Harris, the fifth of nine children, was born in Limerick city, Ireland ( then known as the Irish Free State ) into a middle-class, staunchly Roman Catholic family.

Blaney was also a TD for Donegal ; a staunchly Republican area which bordered Derry.

A dedicated member of the Orange Order and staunchly Protestant, he famously stated, in April 1934, in response to Éamon de Valera's assertion that Ireland was a " Catholic nation ": The hon.

This was a controversial decision, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Geoffrey Howe, was staunchly pro-European.