Divergent views were often expressed, sometimes strenuously.
Lord Rennard, who strenuously denied the allegations, has expressed a hope that he can now resume his roles within the party.
Hong Kong regulators strenuously rejected the rumors and expressed their support for BEA, offering the bank a capital injection if necessary.
We also have to strenuously object to the assertion, expressed on p. 7 (Authors' note: this refers to the first paragraph of the section titled "Ecological organization of the replicator system"), that the C-catalyst and the A-catalyst are exploiting the same resource (identified as "empty space").
And Mr. Obama expressed no public concern about Russian authoritarianism, a topic that routinely flavored discussions during Mr. Bush's presidency, and even he was sometimes criticized for not raising it more strenuously.
But labor unions strenuously oppose taxing health benefits, saying they have given up wage increases to secure them, and last week the idea ran into a roadblock when Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, expressed opposition to it.
In phone calls to his European allies, Mr Obama is said to have expressed frustration at Mr Netanyahu's approach to settlements, but to have explained he had "too many domestic fires to extinguish" to risk a bust-up over Israel.The White House strenuously denies this account.
When speaking out or otherwise expressing oneself on one's or one's people's behalf was prohibited or strenuously circumscribed and could be punished by beatings, imprisonment, or death with no legal protection, the tensions were indeed wretched.
Chan strenuously endorsed this interpretation, and illustrating it became the distinctive feature of the gong'an or "public case" literature of master-student encounters expressing the "bone" and "marrow" of Chan: communicating the meaning of enlightenment is not a matter of saying, but of showing.
All of those involved strenuously deny that there was a deal whether express or implied.
