Fierce opposition to the intervention usually continues long after evaluation has shown it to have great benefits and insignificant negatives.
As a fierce opponent of Western intervention, she worked to help Mr. Assad's government more effectively get out its side of the story, friends said.
A fierce opponent of government intervention in the marketplace, Mr. Gramm, a Republican from Texas, recalled the episode during a 2001 Senate debate over a measure to curb predatory lending.
National opinion was divided — as it would later be over different wars — but in this early instance these two men, though they hadn't yet met, stood on the same side in their fierce opposition to American intervention and to the "establishment" that was urging it.
My later research moved to this history of vaccines, and why this highly-regarded public health intervention ignited fierce public resistance in the late 20th century.
Struggling to meet the demands of the inner city and federal accountability, teachers and administrators over relied on fierce sanctions and police intervention to manage behavior.
Many of these changes resulted in fierce rows.Besides banking interventions, the Swiss are deluged by directives they have not helped shape.
Rivalries so fierce that broken bones, police intervention and large crowds were common.
Russia, an ally of Assad and fierce opponent of outside military intervention in Syria, said any attempt to impose a no-fly zone using F-16 fighter jets and Patriots based in Jordan would be illegal.
In dealing with demonstrations last year, Mr. Pairin, a lawyer and clan chief, was forced to restrain ethnic Kadazans, descendants of fierce headhunters, from counterattacking, and thus provoking intervention.
