The scramble by two staunch adversaries to shore up the embattled Iraqi authorities underscored how seriously they take the situation in a country in danger of fragmentation as a result of this week's sudden advance by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis).
In California and elsewhere, the staunchest adversaries of the right to die are churches and religious believers who assert that the time, place and manner of each person's death is chosen by God, and that we have no right to change that regardless of the human cost.
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My husband, a moderate liberal, and his friend, a staunch conservative, have become such political adversaries that they can't surmount the differences that were once the most exhilarating part of lively dinner conversations and backyard debates.
As evidence, Mr. Taylor said his forces had captured rebel soldiers who said they were trained by American troops in Guinea, a staunch American ally whose autocratic president, Lansana Conté, is among Mr. Taylor's chief adversaries.
Some individuals staunch their empathy through the deliberate endorsement of political or religious ideologies that promote cruelty toward their adversaries, while others are deficient because of bad genes, abusive parenting, brutal experience, or the usual unhappy goulash of all of the above.
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.
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Grover Norquist, a staunch conservative who is president of Americans for Tax Reform, said he had joined the coalition with some of his traditional liberal adversaries because he feared Congress was moving too quickly.
This shows that it pays to be a staunch friend of the U.S. in extending freedom and does not increase a nation's strategic importance to be America's political adversary.
