But the Lakers also played staunch defense, holding San Antonio to 34.5percentt shooting, and received bounce-back performances from forward Lamar Odom and guard Derek Fisher, who were a combined 4 for 21 in Game 1. Odom was a force inside with 20 points, 12 rebounds and 4 blocks, while Fisher had 11 points and didn't turn the ball over.
As Governors Walker and Kasich hold staunch, refusing even to negotiate, the protests in Wisconsin and Ohio continue, joined by thousands of others from states across the nation.
Her father, Mikhail Plisetsky, was an engineer and staunch communist who held a senior position in the country's coal industry.
"In many ways, the published book is more Haley's than its author's," Mr. Marable writes, noting that Haley, who died in 1992, was a liberal Republican and staunch integrationist who held "racial separation and religious extremism in contempt" but was "fascinated by the tortured tale of Malcolm's personal life".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a staunch Trump supporter, held up the military move as a warning to other regimes.
In response, the White House and progressive groups are ready for what looks to be a monumental fight to get the nominee confirmed -- setting their sights on Republican incumbents, including Grassley, whose staunch opposition to holding confirmation hearings could backfire at the polls.
The staunch Calvinists endeavoured to hold the Reformed Church to the strict orthodoxy expounded by Franciscus Gomarus, a Leiden professor of theology, against the broader, less rigorous tenets upheld by his colleague Jacobus Arminius.
The Liberal National party seat lost to Labor in Queensland was Longman, held by staunch Turnbull ally Wyatt Roy.
Randolph was a contentious figure: although he shared the staunch states' rights views held by most of the Virginia legislature, he had a reputation for fiery rhetoric and erratic behavior on the Senate floor, which put his allies in an awkward position.
Others hold the equally staunch position that some questions are so profound that they must forever lie beyond the scope of natural science.
