President Ronald Reagan, a fervent opponent of Communism, urged the stations to be more critical of the communist regimes.

He was transformed from being Rhodes ’ most ardent supporter to being the most fervent opponent of British expansion.

With the advent of the Second Party System, he allied with the National Republican ( later Whig ) Party and was a fervent supporter of Henry Clay and opponent of Democrats Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.

He was a supporter of Hannah More, and a fervent opponent of Methodism, at one time inducing the vicar of Blagdon to sack his curate, causing national scandal.

He was a fervent opponent of gun laws in Australia, maintaining that everyone had a right to take it like a man.

Caricature of Samuel Wilberforce, known as " Soapy Sam ", from an 1869 issue of Vanity Fair ( British magazine ) | Vanity Fair: Wilberforce ordained Stebbing in 1859, but became a staunch opponent of Darwinism, while Stebbing became a fervent supporter.

Bazin was also a fervent political opponent of Aristide, and ran in the 2006 election for the presidency of Haïti, but was reported to have received only about 0. 68 % of the vote in the 35-candidate race.

At this point, Tang Shengzhi expressed fervent support for Chiang's position that Nanking should be defended to the death based on its symbolic importance to the nation.

For many, the 1961 withdrawal of Pope Gregory XVI's 1837 authorization of liturgical veneration of Saint Philomena in a limited number of places ( which was not an official declaration that she never existed nor that she is not a saint ) merely means that the situation has returned to that existing before 1837, when in many places there was fervent devotion to her, accompanied only by vague speculation about the circumstances of her life and death or by belief in the revelations of the Neapolitan nun.

Following Princess Lilian's death, a cardiological conference was organized and prominent doctors and surgeons such as DeBakey and many others rendered a fervent homage to Lilian and her contributions to cardiology ( cf.

Eysenck was brought up by his grandmother, who was a fervent Catholic, though of Jewish ancestry — a fact he did not know until after her death in a concentration camp ( p. 80 ).

Orthodox Christians offer particularly fervent prayers for the departed on the first 40 days after death.

Almighty, everlasting God, who by the co-operation of the Holy Spirit didst prepare the body and soul of the glorious Virgin-Mother Mary to become a dwelling-place meet for thy Son: grant that as we rejoice in her commemoration ; so by her fervent intercession we may be delivered from present evils and from everlasting death.

With her " fervent and enlightened Catholicism ", which took the form of a rational and intellectualized form of faith, she is described as an influence on the French Catholic community until her death in 1856.

Although the nationalist movement appeared less fervent in Cape Verde than in Portugal's other African holdings, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC, acronym for the Portuguese Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde ) was founded in 1956 by Amílcar Cabral and other pan-Africanists, and many Cape Verdeans fought for independence in Guinea-Bissau.

Neoclassical Line History: The origins of this beautiful Eastern Church dating from the late 18th century a fervent Christian group of locals founded the Confraternity of Our Lady of Carmen.

Fraenkel was a fervent Zionist and as such was a member of Jewish National Council and the Jewish Assembly of Representatives under the British mandate.

Doyle is a fervent supporter of the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League.

We hear equally fervent concern over the belief that we have not enough generalists who can see the over-all picture and combine our national skills and knowledge for useful purposes.

A controversial figure, Thackeray has attracted significant attention by making statements expressing admiration for Hitler as an artist and demagogue, while condemning the Holocaust, inciting violence against Muslims, expressing support for the LTTE, and taking strong stances on the aspects of popular culture, including fervent opposition to the celebration of Valentine's Day.

It was reserved for his biographer Karl Benrath to justify him, and to represent him as a fervent evangelist and at the same time as a speculative thinker with a passion for free inquiry, always learning and unlearning and arguing out difficult questions with himself in his dialogues, frequently without attaining to any absolute conviction.

It ends with a fervent prayer for the further spiritual enrichment of the Ephesians.

We are told that he was " plain and powerful in preaching, fervent in prayer ", " a discerner of other men's spirits, and very much master of his own ", skilful to " speak a word in due season to the conditions and capacities of most, especially to them that were weary, and wanted soul's rest "; " valiant in asserting the truth, bold in defending it, patient in suffering for it, immovable as a rock ".

To the contrary, both J. M. W. Turner and James Northcote were fervent acolytes: Turner requested he be laid to rest at Reynolds ' side, and Northcote ( who lived for four years as Reynolds ' pupil ) wrote to his family " I know him thoroughly, and all his faults, I am sure, and yet almost worship him.

Ne ' ilah deals with the closing of the holiday, and contains a fervent final plea to God for forgiveness just before the conclusion of the fast.

In Peking, Mao found that he had achieved a level of fame among the revolutionary movement for his fervent article writing, and he set about soliciting support in overthrowing Zhang's rule in Hunan.

Patrick Abercromby ( 1656 – c. 1716 ), Scottish physician and antiquarian, noted for being physician to King James VII ( II of England ) and his fervent opposition to the Act of Union between Scotland and England.

Therefore, it is proper to accord to them a fervent and reverent adoration, not, however, the veritable worship which, according to our faith, belongs to the Divine Being alone — for the honor accorded to the image passes over to its prototype, and whoever adores the image adores in it the reality of what is there represented.

While not exactly accurate, John Ford's 1924 silent movie The Iron Horse captures the fervent nationalism that drove public support for the project.

Through these years of military training, he developed his fervent passion for armaments and military strategy, which he later would employ on the battlefields of the wars of independence.

While Nehru, Rajagopalachari and Maulana Azad initially criticised Gandhi's proposal for an all-out campaign of civil disobedience to force the British to Quit India, Patel was its most fervent supporter.

" As fervent Christians the Normans were reluctant to fight their spiritual leader and tried to sue for peace but the Swabians mocked them – battle was inevitable.

As a fervent patriot, he wants to put England in a nutshell for all the world to see and to cash in on England at the same time: he does not mind that the real thing takes a turn for the worse and eventually deteriorates.

He accepted the child as God's gracious response to his fervent prayer for an heir to his throne.

Despite fervent support for the Greek cause in Russian nationalist circles, Alexander proved unwilling to defy Metternich and Castlereagh and offer the Greeks more than ( limited ) diplomatic support.

A fervent horsewoman, she rode every day for hours on end, becoming probably the world's best, as well as best-known, female equestrian at the time.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

When Thompson and her daughter began a correspondence which included fervent verses from Pantasaph, Mrs. King felt a proper Victorian alarm.

For the figure of Vincent Berger Malraux has obviously drawn on his studies of T. E. Lawrence ( though Berger fights on the side of the Turks instead of against them ), and like both Lawrence and Malraux himself he is a fervent admirer of Nietzsche.

Eric Foner denounced Johnson as a " fervent white supremacist " who foiled Reconstruction ; Sean Wilentz wrote that Johnson " actively sided with former Confederates " in his attempts to derail Reconstruction.

The Theseus was regarded with fervent admiration.

As a Senator, Atchison was a fervent advocate of slavery and territorial expansion.

" Atheists though they were, David and Marat, like so many other fervent social reformers of the modern world, seem to have created a new kind of religion.

Like Arius, he was a pupil of Lucian of Antioch, and it is probable that he held the same views as Arius from the very beginning ; he was also one of Arius ' most fervent supporters who encouraged Arius.

Although Huneric was a fervent adherent to Arianism, his reign opened with making a number of positive overtures towards the local Roman population.

Rousseau's break with the Encyclopedistes coincided with the composition of his three major works, in all of which he emphasized his fervent belief in a spiritual origin of man's soul and the universe, in contradistinction to the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, and d ' Holbach.

He was the Democratic party leader in the United States Senate, the chairman of the Committee on Territories, an avid promoter of railroads, an aspirant to the presidency, and, above all, a fervent believer in popular sovereignty: the policy of letting the residents of a territory decide whether or not they would permit slavery to exist.

Bruce Westbrook of The Houston Chronicle, in reviewing the re-mastered " Forever Changes " in 2001, called it a " seamless masterpiece, from the fervent acoustic opener ' Alone Again Or ' to the epic seven-minute finale ' You Set the Scene.

In reality, Maxim Rudometkin was a fervent follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ, and never preached contrary to that.

In 1837, Webster warned his daughter about her fervent support of the abolitionist cause.

For some prominent communists such as Bertram Wolfe, Jay Lovestone, Arthur Koestler, and Heinrich Brandler, the Bukharin trial marked their final break with communism and even turned the first three into fervent anti-Communists eventually.