But other powerful Shiite factions, including the Sadrists, who model their movement after Lebanon's Hezbollah, are rivals to Asaib al-Haq, whose government support has inspired deep resentments among the followers of Mr. Sadr.
In the midst of such deep disappointment, the Tottenham followers may have been numb enough not to be pained too sharply by a pair of goals from a former Arsenal attacker Emmanuel Adebayor, who is with Mourinho on loan from Manchester City.
Perish the thought, but it's almost as if the British Foreign Office were trying to be Trumpist — as if it were infected by the headlong, no-time-to-waste approach that he has demonstrated in his first days, to the deep satisfaction of his followers and the horror of his foes.
From the first of four public stock offerings in 1923 (shares are nontransferable) through the Vince Lombardi era to last year's Super Bowl win, the team has crafted deep ties to their followers.
Don't follow the follower.
To his father, he is an alcoholic with deep anger and an impressionable follower -- whether of an ex-girlfriend who turned him into a fan of punk rock or of a well-known neighborhood racist who got him interested in white supremacy.
Lowe is the Guardian's Spanish football writer, a man with deep knowledge and 135,000 Twitter followers.
He has been working to expand on the deep support of his core followers and has encouraged them to send the party a message.
Uddin, known as the Qari Saab by his followers for his deep understanding of the Qur'an, was mocked as a magician by Syeedy and his friends, who nicknamed him Voldemort after the evil wizard in the Harry Potter books.
— They came at dusk, more than 1,000 fans driving pickups and off-road vehicles down eight miles of dirt road, to celebrate an annual rite of summer that draws an intensely loyal group of followers: night racing deep in the Mojave Desert by a fleet of souped-up trucks tackling a barely marked 40-mile track of rocks, ruts, sand and sagebrush.
