Sentence examples for once staunch from inspiring English sources

Ms. Agyemang-Rawlings and her husband, Jerry, were once staunch Mills supporters.

Businessmen, once staunch supporters, are divided, as is the country as a whole.

This week Osborne's most crucial supporter betrayed him: the IMF, once staunch proponent of his austerity, came knocking at his door.

Mr. Haider, born in 1950 to parents who were once staunch Nazis, partly defended him, saying honor and fidelity were good principles.

Since moving from Finsbury Park in London to Copenhagen three years ago with my husband Duncan, our quality of life has skyrocketed and our once staunch London loyalism has been replaced by an almost embarrassing enthusiasm for everything "Dansk".

The objective of his journey is to seek assurances of loyalty, after more than a year of harsh criticism, not only coming from dissident clerics and seminarians but religious scholars who were once staunch supporters of the Islamic republic.

HAS once-staunch Britain become an unreliable ally, without its former appetite for military intervention in a good cause?

For anti-American unrest to erupt in Egypt after all that could reflect a deeper divergence of a once-staunch ally from the United States.

Defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson, the team's first-round draft choice in 2011 and one of the few proven players remaining, all but ignored the demolition of a once-staunch defense in his effort to be optimistic.

The fact that the courts have become the arena for such lurid political theater has reignited criticism, some from once-staunch allies, that the Supreme Court is worryingly overstepping its mark.

Mr. Jiang's visit is planned as the culmination of a long courtship, intended to open China to Israeli commerce and pry Beijing from its once-staunch support for Israel's adversaries in the Arab world.