The bill, which Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and several Council members staunchly oppose, was attacked at a Council hearing by bankers, who said it would illegally impose city regulations on an industry governed by the state and federal government.
Protesters who marched in the streets of America's most staunchly racist cities and towns were attacked by police dogs, their clothing was tattered by high-pressure fire hoses, and their lives were taken by police officers' bullets.
Leaders of the secular and more moderate group Fatah have claimed its members have been harassed and attacked by Hamas, a claim the militant group staunchly denies.
While the Combat 18 delegation were staying in Porta-down, the LVF's Mid-Ulster stronghold, members of the neo-Nazi group attacked a Chinese family living in the town's staunchly loyalist Corcrain estate.
The reason for the shutdown, reporters and editors said, was a deep fear that the president's loyalists, armed and furious with a press they viewed as staunchly anti-Chávez, would attack and kill reporters if they were sent into the streets.
Turning against his inherited values and becoming staunchly liberal, he scorned religious fundamentalism and Prohibition, regretted what he considered a Southern malaise, and attacked fascism overseas.
The department has staunchly defended its anti-terrorism record and its use of the tools in the Patriot Act, portions of which have been attacked as an abuse of government power by groups as diverse as the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Conservative Union.
In a familiar quadrennial exercise, the staunchly Republican Manchester Union Leader fiercely attacks G.O.P. candidates suspected of being insufficiently right-wing.
The characterization comes despite the fact that the Minnesota congresswoman has defined her political career with staunchly conservative positions and has a penchant for using inflammatory rhetoric to attack President Barack Obama's policies.
It will make dealing with Israel's staunchly right-wing government far more difficult, as former members of the Bush administration, such as the former U.N. ambassador, John Bolton, all but encourage Israel to attack Iran.
