That the issue remains, above all, political is demonstrated over the border, in the Catalan region of southern France, where bullfighting is embraced as fiercely as it is opposed in Spanish Catalonia, for exactly the same separatist reasons, in that case because it is banned in Paris.
Henry's parents, for instance, effervescent, embracing and fiercely optimistic from the start, became more so as the clock ran out.
You couldn't make it up.Many marvelled that Good Time Charlie had so fiercely embraced this cause.
Instead they were launched by zealous outsiders from the edges of the informational ecosystem, and were fiercely embraced, until their claims were scrutinized and found wanting.
It was much sooner than I ever thought I'd be able to be honest about myself, but my friends embraced me just as fiercely as Buffy and Xander embraced Willow.
Here's Kauffmann on Athol Fugard's "Boesman and Lena," a play he later described as "one of the best new pays I have seen in my life": "[Fugard] has embraced these people so fiercely and lovingly that in their rags and drunkenness and cunning and persistence they move through a small epic of contemporary man.
The vast majority of the people clearly value some form of permanent association with the United States, although Puerto Ricans fiercely embrace their language and Hispanic-American culture; some have even pointed out that, under statehood, Puerto Rico could no longer field its own teams for the Olympic Games.
The "public option", as it is known, has been passionately embraced by liberals and equally fiercely resisted by conservatives, including some in the President's own party on Capitol Hill.
Although he embraced the Russian Revolution of 1917, his fiercely individualistic temperament and artistic eccentricity brought reproach and condemnation from Soviet critics.
