Though he says little about the issue in his book, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," (Penguin Press, $35) Mr. Greenspan sought to staunchly refute charges that he contributed to the housing bubble by cutting interest rates from 2001 until 2004 and by making little effort to regulate the explosion of risky new mortgages.
But hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other interests whose support Obama sought were staunchly opposed, fearing monetary losses.
During the French and Indian War, Caudy remained on his property on the Cacapon River which he staunchly defended, and likely sought further protection at Fort Edwards to the north.
He was one of three regicides (the 50-odd signatories of the death warrant of King Charles I in January 1649) who cannily sought refuge in staunchly Puritan New Haven after the restoration of Charles II in 1660.
When the world did not act to end the slaughter of Muslims there, jihadists moved in to join the fight, and they sought to convince the otherwise staunchly secular-minded Bosnian Muslims that the world had abandoned them and that they were better off with jihadists.
Then, as now, Democrats sought to cast Mr. Ferguson as staunchly conservative, a man who supported Mr. Bush and like-minded House leaders on policies that were out of step with the district's more moderate political sensibilities.
In Soviet times it staunchly backed the Arab side, but in recent years it has sought to portray itself as more of an evenhanded broker.
The Romney campaign and its backers spent large sums on advertising in the primary season as he sought to define himself as an acceptable candidate to the staunchly conservative primary electorate.
"And so when... an institution pledging to make change has a leader so staunchly opposed to women seeking justice, it sends a message about institutional priorities.
He has, however, staunchly refused, and on Tuesday a congressional committee discovered that pilot programs by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that sought to save taxpayers by reducing foreclosures through principal forgiveness, were halted too early in their trials to measure their outcomes, allegedly (by a former Fannie employee) for ideological reasons.
