Sentence examples for few staunch from inspiring English sources

Ayatollah Ahmed Jannati, the council's chairman, is one of Ayatollah Khamenei's few staunch allies among powerful clerics.

To be sure, there were a few staunch fans who lamented the team's possible move to Brooklyn after its sale late yesterday to the developer Bruce C. Ratner.

A few staunch opponents of affirmative action also fretted that the administration's legal brief, to be filed on Thursday, might be more narrowly drawn.

Although youth groups announced plans to protest in favor of reform this week, a few staunch supporters of the regime showed up instead, carrying photos of the king and signs denouncing calls for a constitutional monarchy.

There have been, to their great credit, many holdouts and even a few staunch and loud opponents of Trumpism among Republican regulars, and even more among the conservative intellectual classes.

Another reason it has been held up: When the film, Mr. Kelly's eagerly anticipated follow-up to his 2001 cult hit "Donnie Darko," had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last year, the critical reception — except for a few staunch defenders — ranged from negative to vicious.

Some said they hoped that Mr. Bush's first defeat on a judicial nomination might persuade him to take their views more into account and send up fewer staunch conservatives and more moderates.

Or is he the John Major whom his few but staunch fans discern: not so nice but cleverer, braver and more resilient than his public image, his chief problem that he leads a party which has taken leave of its senses?

Worse yet, few solutions exist to staunch the cash flow: the DISCLOSE Act, intended to counter the effects of Citizens United, twice failed in the Senate this year; and the best option, public financing of elections, can't even get a hearing in Washington.

And very few espoused Mr. Giuliani's staunch defense of the police.

A number of serious ("prosumer") amateurs and even a few professional photographers have become staunch mirrorless fans, especially now they provide almost as much control over shooting conditions as full-sized digital SLRs.