Singh remained focused on religious issues for example, staunchly advocating that a Hindu temple be built on the site of the 16th-century Babri Masjid ("Mosque of Bābur") in Ayodhya that had been illegally demolished in 1992 by Hindu activists.
Abbott is staunchly against abortion rights, which Davis supports, but the Democrat has focused on other issues, including education.
All agreed that she operated in a difficult political environment, with the effects of the Great Recession still being felt, Republicans staunchly opposed to labor-based initiatives, and the Obama administration's attentions focused elsewhere.
"Jim Wilson and George Kelling reshaped the way law enforcement thought about its role and staunchly defended the idea of proactive policing that focuses not only on preventing crime but disorder".
Mr. Gore is just as staunchly opposed to opening what he calls "this environmental treasure" to drilling, arguing the country needs to focus on conservation and other ways of decreasing demand.
After selecting as his running mate a conventional Republican politician with Washington experience, Mike Pence, the staunchly conservative governor of Indiana, he turned the press conference at which he introduced his pick into a rambling soliloquy focussed on his favorite subject: himself.
They are focusing on Haitian immigrants and Jews, some of whom might switch allegiances because Mr. Lieberman is no longer on the Democratic ticket and because Mr. Bush has staunchly supported Israel, Mr. Dinerstein said.
Orban has framed Soros, whose philanthropic work focuses on strengthening civil society and promoting human rights, particularly in former Communist countries in Europe, as the antithesis of his government's nationalist, illiberal and staunchly anti-immigration platform.
These newer paintings are worked up from hundreds of free-form computer drawings and printed rather than hand-painted: they present all-over surfaces of soft, smoky wafts of green, brown or gray in fuzzy, camouflagelike patterns that staunchly refuse to come into focus.
However, Cornwall in the English Civil War was a staunchly Royalist enclave, an "important focus of support for the Royalist cause".
