I was, it seemed, persona non grata in every quarter, but not entirely without a staunch following of noted political thinkers and students of jurisprudence.

From actions aboard, it is easy to guess that Spencer's boast of twenty staunch followers was a modest estimate ''.

Frick was well known in industrial circles for maintaining staunch anti-union sensibilities.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a staunch supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.

Although Malesherbes was a staunch absolutist-loyal to the monarchy, he was sympathetic to the literary project.

He remained to the end a staunch Catholic, though all Chemnitz had gone over to the Lutheran creed, and it is said that his life was ended by a fit of apoplexy brought on by a heated discussion with a Protestant divine.

Unlike his father, the new tsar Alexander III ( 1881 – 1894 ) was throughout his reign a staunch reactionary who revived the maxim of " Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and National Character ".

Randolph attempted to block Madison's nomination by running James Monroe ; thus gaining the support of Federalists, since Madison was considered Jefferson's staunch political ally.

Bentham was an early and staunch supporter of the utilitarian concept ( along with Hume ), an avid prison reformer, advocate for democracy, and strongly atheist.

His grandfather was a staunch atheist.

During the abdication crisis of December 1936, Ribbentrop reported to Berlin that the reason the crisis had occurred was an anti-German Jewish-Masonic-reactionary conspiracy to depose Edward ( whom Ribbentrop represented as a staunch friend of Germany ), and that civil war would soon break out in Britain between the King's supporters and those of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's.

St-Laurent's father, a Compton shopkeeper, was a staunch supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada and was particularly enamoured with Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

A staunch supporter of this position, at the Congress Mao was elected to the Communist Party Committee, taking up residence in Shanghai.

However, McMahon was a staunch free-trader, and there were also rumors that he was homosexual.

Although Kirov himself was a staunch Stalin loyalist, he was in favor of a general relaxation and reconciliation toward former oppositionists.

It was, as well, an incredibly brave move on the part of Azuero, which lived in fear of Colonel José de Fábrega, and with good reason: the Colonel was a staunch loyalist, and had the entirety of the isthmus ' military supplies in his hands.

In light of his overt involvement in Italian politics – anyone who voted for a Communist candidate in the 1948 elections was threatened with automatic excommunication – Pius XII became known as a staunch opponent of the Italian Communist Party.

His father Charles was a staunch royalist and accomplished artist whose paintings were displayed and given prizes at the Parisian salon, at least in those years when he was not absent in protest of the rise to power of Louis Napoleon.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

) He was an outspoken pioneer in favor of diversifying the NCS by admitting women cartoonists.

Several Arab states supported Libyan territorial claims to the Strip, among the most outspoken of which was Algeria, which provided training for anti-Habré forces, although most recruits for its training programs were from Nigeria or Cameroon, recruited and flown to Algeria by Libya.

She was at one time called the " most dangerous woman in America ," due to her free-love idealism and outspoken nature.

As a result he, along with outspoken young goaltender Glenn Hall, was promptly traded to Chicago ( which was owned by James D. Norris, Bruce's elder brother ) after his most productive year.

Mayr was an outspoken defender of the scientific method, and one known to sharply critique science on the edge.

In the 1850s, he was especially outspoken in New York.

He was an outspoken and early critic of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

He was also among the first and most outspoken advocates of Esperanto in the science fiction community.

Two of the most outspoken critics of the guild system were Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith, and all over Europe a tendency to oppose government control over trades in favour of laissez-faire free market systems was growing rapidly and making its way into the political and legal system.

He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often ( but not always, as the beginning of the First World War ) sympathising with pacifist views.

The government ( foreign policy conduct was the responsibility of Józef Beck ) undertook opportunistic hostile actions against Lithuania and Czechoslovakia, while it failed to control the increasingly fractured situation at home, where fringe groups and extreme nationalist circles were getting more outspoken ( one Camp of National Unity was connected to the new strongman, Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły ).

Bogart was drawn to Bacall's high cheekbones, green eyes, tawny blond hair, and lean body, as well as her poise and earthy, outspoken honesty.

A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled, and was outspoken in her anti-war convictions.

As in 1942, he was more outspoken about what was happening than Himmler would have liked: " Our state ’ s security requires that we take whatever measures seem necessary to protect the German community from Jewish threat ," he wrote in May.

He was outspoken in his love of the South, and equally outspoken in his hatred of Lincoln.

Russ, an out lesbian, was one of the most outspoken authors to challenge male dominance of the field, and is generally regarded as one of the leading feminist science fiction scholars and writers.

Kemp was also outspoken on immigration on around this time: according to Kemp's interpretation of a scientific index that he and Bennett support, " immigrants are a blessing, not a curse.

Dole was a longstanding conservative deficit hawk who had even voted against John F. Kennedy's tax cuts, while Kemp was an outspoken supply-sider.

Each wore the monkish scourge at his waist but this, it seems, was not employed for self-flagellation.

He was intolerant of what he regarded as loose speculation parading as theory, and sought through his writings to save his beloved science of chemistry from what he regarded as the scourge of modern structural theory.

The etymology from ken – tauros, " piercing bull-stickers " was a Euhemerist suggestion in Palaephatus ' rationalizing text on Greek mythology, On Incredible Tales ( Περὶ ἀπίστων ): mounted archers from a village called Nephele eliminating a herd of bulls that were the scourge of Ixion's kingdom.

This was gradually alleviated as Spain and other Christian powers began to check Muslim naval dominance in the Mediterranean after the 1571 victory at Lepanto, but it would be a scourge that continued to afflict the country even in the next century.

Many argued that it was a scourge on cricket and must be stamped out, while some did not see what all the fuss was about.

Out of this arose the renowned corps of Janissaries, which was considered the scourge of the Balkans and Central Europe for a long time, until it was abolished by Sultan Mahmud II in 1826.

He was the scourge of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall political machine.

The namesake and subject of “ Ragnar ’ s Saga ”, and one of the most popular Viking heroes among the Norse themselves, Ragnar was a great Viking commander and the scourge of France and England.

The former had been a scourge of the population, especially children, whereas the other was a leading cause of death in wars, killing the wounded.

Though Genghis was at first seen as a scourge of Christianity's enemies, he proved to be surprisingly tolerant of religious faiths among those subjects that did not resist the empire, and was the first East Asian ruler to invite clerics from three major religions ( Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism ) to a symposium so that he might learn more about their beliefs.

The town's population was described by the Bolivar Bulletin as " fleeing from the scourge ".

It was clearly a historical battle, being described by Gildas, who does not mention the name of the Britons ' leader ( he does, however, mention Aurelius Ambrosius as a great scourge of the Saxons immediately prior.

Like the Fokker scourge, the period of Allied air superiority which followed it was brief.

The scourge, or flail, and the crook, are the two symbols of power and domination depicted in the hands of Osiris in Egyptian monuments and they are the unchanging form of the instrument throughout the ages ; though, the flail depicted in Egyptian mythology was an agricultural instrument used to thresh wheat, and not for corporal punishment.

Hard material was affixed to multiple thongs to give a flesh-tearing ' bite ' 12: 11: ... My father scourged you with whips ; I will scourge you with scorpions.

The latter wrote a special treatise in praise of self-flagellation ; though blamed by some contemporaries for excess of zeal, his example and the high esteem in which he was held did much to popularize the voluntary use of the scourge or " discipline " as a means of mortification and penance.

In Second Nephi chapter 5, the original wording was: " Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cursed, receive a skin of blackness, and become a scourge unto the Nephites.

" The phrase, " skin of blackness " was removed and became: " Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cut off from the presence of the Lord, are cursed, and become a scourge unto the Nephites.

He soon concluded that politics was the only way in which he could make an attack on the scourge of tuberculosis.

From the communist view, the primary scourge of the planet at that point was fascism, and that under the circumstances, fascism had to be defeated first and communist revolution could come after that.

The word comes from narthex ( Medieval Latin from Classical Greek narthex νάρθηξ 1. giant fennel, 2. scourge ) and was the place for penitents.