When I first met him in London in the 1980s, he was with Salman Rushdie at a Royal Court play, and his became a staunch Muslim voice against the fatwa.
Not only did he come out of the closet in the 80s, one of the first congressmen to do so, but he was a staunch and powerful voice for liberalism in America.
Both the president, Nicolás Maduro, and his late predecessor, Hugo Chávez, voiced staunch support for Assad's rule.
Mr. Lieberman has voiced staunch opposition to the public option, which many Democrats support and which in different forms is in the health care legislation passed last month by the House and in the bill now being debated on the Senate floor.
As Clinton voiced staunch support for Obama's call to strengthen United Nations sanctions against the country, the Trump campaign had a different message: Clinton and Obama are not strong leaders. .
President Barack Obama has voiced staunch opposition to the measure, arguing that it would open the U.S. up to lawsuits by other countries.
Since the departure of Ben Ali, who enforced a political and legal code based on staunch secularism, the voices of the religious have been able to reassert themselves in the public square.
But defying critics who dubbed him a publicity seeker, he has undergone any number of reinventions, from shedding pounds on his once-stout frame to asserting himself as a forceful voice and staunch advocate of civil rights, most recently as the host of the show "Politics Nation" on MSNBC.
With weary voices and staunch, down-home roots-rock guitars, the Hangdogs sing about unglamorous, hard-drinking men and the women they love and leave.
