Despite David's reputation, he was more fiercely criticized right after his death than at any point during his life.

In early calculus the use of infinitesimal quantities was unrigorous and was fiercely criticized by a number of authors, most notably Michel Rolle and Bishop Berkeley.

He fiercely criticized the huge amount of useless and false information available on the Internet, mostly offered as commercial propaganda for building unnecessary needs in a population of stupid and brainless consumers.

This was fiercely criticized by Marx and the Young Hegelians, who claimed that Hegel had gone too far in defending his abstract conception of " absolute Reason " and had failed to notice the " real " — i. e. undesirable and irrational — life conditions of the working class.

" In 1909 he fiercely criticized leading members of the Russian Jewish community for participating in ceremonies marking the centennial of the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.

This proposal was fiercely criticized on the House floor by antiwar Congressman Daniel Webster of Massachusetts.

Two of Robertson's five papers in the Philosophical Transactions were fiercely criticized, and he responded by publishing a " Reply to a Critical and Monthly Reviewer " ( 1808 ).

One of the first actions of the ADFL after it began to capture towns along the Zairean border was the dispersal of the large Hutu refugee camps that were offering safe haven to many RDR militants, an act humanitarian and human rights organizations fiercely criticized.

It was fiercely criticized when first published, but since then has gained the status of one of the most prominent works of Czech literature ; the poem now is memorized by schoolchildren and continuously in print.

In a number of public lectures, he had fiercely criticized the attempts of politicians to tighten their grip on the army, urging the public to resist corruption and vested interests.

Her first book Good girls don't wear trousers ( in Italian: Volevo i pantaloni ), written when she was nineteen, caused a scandal in the small Sicilian community where she lived because it fiercely criticized what she perceived as the backwardness and chauvinism of contemporary sicilian society.

Li Cunxu and Liu Shouguang ( 劉守光 ) fiercely fought the regime forces to conquer northern China ; Li Cunxu succeeded.

Then Governor-General Fausto Cruzat Y Gongora ( July 25, 1690 to December 8, 1701 ) had most likely spent much of his time in the northern outpost in Carranglan and Pantabangan and, baking in the fiercely hot climate, probably waxed nostalgic about his hometown in Ecija, Andalusia in Spain.

He reminds me in many ways of the fiercely upright senators of the early Roman Republic.

In his autobiography, Margin Released he is fiercely critical of the British Army and in particular of the officer class.

Otto is fiercely protective of Sarge, and seems to have a particular antipathy towards Beetle.

A feisty and independent-minded politician, he was always fiercely loyal to his liberal instincts, and had a particular mistrust of the Labour Party, which he saw as centralist and corrupt.

Crocodiles compete fiercely with each other for territory, with dominant males in particular occupying the most eligible stretches of freshwater creeks and streams.

In particular, the Glasgow to Edinburgh flagship route competed fiercely with the Motorvator operation since its acquisition by Stagecoach in July 2004.

Diebold was fiercely anti-French, and he accused the Bernese in particular, as well as his fellow chronicler Petermann Etterlin because of their friendly attitude towards France.

The decision was fiercely debated across the country, as perhaps best exemplified by the Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858.

Successive Lords of the Isles fiercely asserted their independence, culminating in 1462 with John MacDonald II of the Isles making a treaty with Edward IV of England to conquer Scotland with him and the Earl of Douglas.

Nevertheless, they caused relatively minimal damage, and the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force retaliated fiercely to the invasion, flying strikes involving up to 140 McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs against main Iraqi airfields, oil industry installations, and communications sites.

While communist, the CPK was fiercely nationalistic, and most of its members who had lived in Vietnam were purged.

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.

As the Civil War went on, Booth increasingly quarreled with his brother Edwin, who declined to make stage appearances in the South and refused to listen to John Wilkes ' fiercely partisan denunciations of the North and Lincoln.

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.

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.

He penned fiercely anti-Jewish polemics, perhaps connected with his mission to the Khazar Khaganate, a state located near the Sea of Azov ruled by a Jewish king who allowed Jews, Muslims, and Christians to live peaceably side by side.

The President was by habit fiercely loyal and protective to those he befriended and complacently trusted ; effectively reformers who desired integrity in the federal government became hostile to the Administration and caused a party split in 1872.

He became ruler in 530 after deposing his cousin Hilderic, who had angered the Vandal nobility by converting to Catholic Christianity, most of the Vandals at this time being fiercely devoted to Arian Christianity.

The same theme is seen to a lesser extent in the other characters, some of whom reveal their flaws ( Simes & the Captain ), and some of whom rise to the occasion ( Sam, minor characters such as the rich Daiglers, and Ellie, who proves not only highly intelligent, but resourceful and fiercely independent ).

A statue of Garibaldi, who was fiercely in favour of the union of Nice with Italy, stands in the centre of the square.

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.

The male incubates the eggs for 50 – 52 days, removing or adding litter to regulate the temperature, then protects the brown-striped chicks, who stay in the nest for about nine months, defending them fiercely against all potential predators, including humans.

Such was the consensus that Ostpolitik had been vindicated that Bavarian Minister-President Franz Josef Strauß, who had fiercely fought against the Basic Treaty and was Kohl's main opponent within the CDU / CSU bloc, secured the passage of a Kohl-initiated 3 billion mark loan to the GDR in 1983.

* Gina Gillotti-a fiercely independent young Italian American girl, who Dennis is mostly unaware he secretly has a crush on.

A free commune around 1000, it fiercely resisted the Milanese, who destroyed it in 1111.

While being fiercely loyal to David, Joab was also suspicious of any potential rivals for Joab's power or threats to David's kingdom, and had no qualms about taking the lives of any who might stand in his way ( E. G., Abner:, and Absalom: ).

Although this may have been done to ensure that his widow was well provided for ; by doing this, Ralph essentially split his family into two, and the result was years of bitter conflict between Joan and her stepchildren, who fiercely contested her acquisition of their father's lands.

In 1641, Parliament passed a Bill of Attainder against the King's minister Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford who was fiercely loyal to Charles.

Olivier is presented as the gracious knight and paladin: skilled and brave in battle, ' fiercely beautiful ', resourceful, resilient, generous and chivalrous ; he risks his life to save an enemy who had been keeping him imprisoned in a dungeon ( Brother Cadfael's Penance ).

Another kenning may allude to this myth: in Eilífr Goðrúnarson's Þórsdrápa, Thor is called " he who longs fiercely for Þrúðr " ( þrámóðnir Þrúðar ).

Those who benefited from the old order will resist change very fiercely.

After recovering he fought for an apology from his fellow students, which he received, but more fiercely, for the dismissal of Tilley who, he argued, had known about and supported the bullying.