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fiercely and anti-Communist
He was fiercely anti-Communist and pro-free market.
Under Mannix's influence Wren was fiercely anti-Communist, and after the war he used his wealth to support politicians who opposed Communism and defended Catholic interests.

fiercely and they
Socially, they form clans to which they are fiercely loyal.
If housed together, acute and chronic stress may occur, and they may fight fiercely, sometimes fatally.
Both Hobbes and Bodin thought they were defending the power of kings, not advocating democracy, but their arguments about the nature of sovereignty were fiercely resisted by more traditional defenders of the power of kings, like Sir Robert Filmer in England, who thought that such defenses ultimately opened the way to more democratic claims.
Because of this, they are fiercely loyal to Vader.
More seriously, under enemy fire, Queeg abandons escorting a group of landing craft during an amphibious assault long before they reach the fiercely defended shore, instead dropping a yellow dye marker in the water and leaving the landing craft to fend for themselves, much to the crew's disgust.
The fight was fiercely contested when they collided heads, opening a large cut over Chávez's eyebrow in the seventh round.
Accompanied by his fiercely loyal brothers Ardan and Ainnle, the sons of Uisnech, they fled to Scotland.
During the breeding season, females will move into smaller areas with their young, which they will defend fiercely, especially from any males.
The complexity of the relationship between ethnicity and the Chinese identity ( John McDermond ) can be seen during the Taiping rebellion in which the rebels fought fiercely against the Manchus on the ground that they were barbarian foreigners while at the same time others fought just as fiercely on behalf of the Manchus on the grounds that they were the preservers of traditional Chinese values.
They systematically killed the fiercely resisting Caribs as they expanded, forcing the survivors back to the Caravelle Peninsula in the Cabesterre ( the leeward side of the island ).
Although some multiculturalists admit that assimilation may result in a relatively homogeneous society, with a strong sense of nationalism, they warn however, that where minorities are strongly urged to assimilate, there may arise groups which fiercely oppose integration.
Following the end of the war, the Gurkhas were returned to India and during the interwar years, they were largely kept away from the internal strife and urban conflicts of the sub-continent, instead being employed largely on the frontiers and in the hills where fiercely independent tribesmen were a constant source of troubles.
In 1761, as they travelled west, Henry was repeatedly warned by the Indians they encountered not to risk his life among the Ojibwe, who remained fiercely loyal to the French.
And the stockwhips woke the echoes, and they fiercely answered back
In Tajōmaru's recollection they fought skillfully and fiercely, but in the end Tajōmaru was the victor and the woman ran away.
In North America, communal roosting is rare, and Merlins are well known for fiercely attacking any birds of prey that they encounter, even adult eagles.
They are obsessed with their birthplaces and graves, usually possessing some of the soil from the location of their Embrace, over which they are fiercely territorial.
However, when cornered they are known to defend themselves fiercely.
The modern implications of these names are ethnic and cultural rather than geographical, and they are fiercely disputed.

fiercely and were
The wagons were burning fiercely.
While communist, the CPK was fiercely nationalistic, and most of its members who had lived in Vietnam were purged.
Yuan's imperial ambitions were fiercely opposed by his subordinates ; faced with the prospect of rebellion, he abdicated in March 1916, and died in June of that year.
These highlanders, designated as " parvatiya Ayudhajivinah " in Pāṇini's Astadhyayi, were rebellious, fiercely independent and freedom-loving cavalrymen who never easily yielded to any overlord.
According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.
The Allied Desert Air Force ( DAF ) was concentrating fiercely on his fragile and elongated supply routes while British mobile columns moving west and striking from the south were causing havoc in the Axis rear echelons.
The islands were described as “ beautiful and rewarding " and the Shetlanders as " a fiercely independent and self-reliant bunch ".
UP reporters were called " Unipressers " and were noted for their fiercely aggressive and competitive streak.
At the start of the 20th century the Russian industrial worker worked on average an 11 hour day ( 10 hours on Saturday ), factory conditions were grueling and often unsafe, and attempts at independent unions were fiercely resisted.
Extension and widening of the road was fiercely opposed by environmentalists, who were concerned about the road's proximity to San Francisquito Creek, and by residents of Menlo Park, who feared that completion of the road would increase traffic congestion in their area due to the mid-Peninsula region's lack of a direct north-south arterial.
1, 479 votes were cast for Peter Buell Porter – against Clinton's 43, 310 – because the Tammany organization, which fiercely hated Clinton, had printed ballots with Porter's name and distributed among the Tammany followers in New York City.
By his birth, its people were fiercely republican.
In the rural counties the CAPS was practically supplanting the local Conservative associations and in many areas the independent free holding farmers were resisting the most fiercely.
They were generally yeoman farmers and fiercely independent.
The early residents were fiercely independent and bent on conducting their own affairs.
Called " one of the most fiercely independent and original groups of the Nineties ", Stereolab were one of the first bands to be termed " post-rock ".
The plan was fiercely opposed in Indian Hills where leaflets were widely distributed claiming that taxes would go up, city buses would enter Indian Hills, and Louisville would send expensive sewer bills to Indian Hills residents.

fiercely and anti-Semitic
Typical among them was the fiercely anti-Semitic Curt Prufer, who joined the Foreign Office in 1907, served as the German Ambassador to Brazil in 1938 – 1942, and then worked closely with the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husayni in recruiting Balkan Muslims to kill Jews in 1943.
Mommsen went on to comment that given Goerdeler's background in the fiercely anti-Semitic German National People's Party, what is surprising was not his anti-Jewish prejudices, but rather that he was able to make any sort of moral objection to Nazi anti-Semitism.

fiercely and upon
By seeking to accord certain terrain international legitimacy based upon British failures to assert control over the fiercely independent Pashtun people and tribes in the region, the establishment of a border that would separate British interests from tribal interests was extremely important to British foreign policy.
Contemporary scholars are particularly interested in his account of the third and fourth centuries, which depend upon sources, now lost, whose nature is fiercely debated.
Additionally, it is said that upon hearing news of his play, The Ransom of Hector, winning the competition at the Lanaean festival at Athens, he celebrated so fiercely that he drank himself to death.
Still worse, the Kalmar War, prudently concluded by Charles ' son, Gustavus Adolphus, in the second year of his reign, by the Treaty of Knäred, January 20, 1613 imposed such onerous pecuniary obligations and such intense suffering upon Sweden as to enkindle into a fire of hatred, which was to burn fiercely for the next two centuries, the long smouldering antagonism between the two sister nations of Scandinavia which dated back to the bloody days of Christian Tyrant.
Suddenly, a raven flew from a trunk, perched upon his helmet, and began to attack his foe's eyes with its beak so fiercely that the barbarian was blinded, and the Roman beat him easily.
The Knights were fiercely protective of the local game, which consisted of wild boar and hares ( Maltese: fenek tal-grixti ): upon conviction, poachers were liable to a penalty of three years as a galley slave.
The unsuccessful attempt upon Crispi ’ s life by the anarchist Lega brought a momentary truce, but Cavallotti ’ s attacks were soon renewed more fiercely than ever.
Both parties increasingly realise that morale is highly dependent upon media portrayal and therefore the fiercely contested information battle.
Whereas in some cases the perceived " greatness " of a person, place or object might be agreed upon by many, this is not necessarily the case, and the perception of " greatness " may be both fiercely contested and highly individual.
Suddenly, a raven flew from a trunk, perched upon Valerius ' helmet, and began to attack his foe's eyes with its beak so fiercely that the barbarian was blinded, and the Roman beat him easily.
What is known more solidly is yet-more political theory: In late February 2011 upon the 2011 Egyptian revolution, PL published a fiercely supportive reaction and also called the mainstream media's characterisation of the revolution as nonviolent " lies ", asserting instead that revolutionary violence and even a quasi-communistic or at least genuinely populist spirit saturated the entire process.
Just as he was about to engage the barbarian, a raven flew from a trunk, perched upon Valerius's helmet, and began to attack his foe ’ s eyes with its beak so fiercely that the warrior was blind.
The offensive's first thrust fell upon US I Corps, which fiercely resisted in the Battle of the Imjin River ( 22 – 25 April 1951 ) and the Battle of Kapyong ( 22 – 25 April 1951 ), blunting the impetus of the offensive, which was halted at the " No-name Line " north of Seoul.
Though he is an expert in the Chinese martial arts, Lan continues to train himself fiercely in order to further improve upon his skill.
The band's style has been described as " metal fusion ", with Sherinian stating that his intention upon founding Planet X was " to find musicians that played their instruments so fiercely, it would strike fear in the hearts of other musicians when they played ".
He then turned to Ahmad Shah Qajar and the Imperial Court of Tehran, presenting himself as a fiercely loyal defender and advocate of the Qajar dynasty, and calling upon the Court to take action against the ambitions of Reza Khan.
took over the Sacramento paper upon the death of his father, James McClatchy, and led it into the 20th century, continuing the newspaper's battles for labor rights ; against the abuses of big mining, the railroads, and corrupt government ; and fiercely defending a publication's right to editorial freedom.

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