China Daily, an official English language paper, said in an editorial: "China's response, no matter how vehement, is justified.
So vehement was the inspector's disagreement with the commissioner that you suspect he might harbour an unbottled ardour for her.
Such views, while not always so vehement, are common in Greece, where the government is widely seen as corrupt, regardless of who is in power.
To reread reports of the advent of Richard James on Savile Row in the early 1990s, you would think he was selling jeans and jocks like Abercrombie & Fitch, so vehement was the response.
Equally vehement were the calls for Mubarak, currently tried before an ordinary criminal court, to be tried for political corruption and to be transferred to an ordinary prison hospital instead of the luxurious Medical Centre where he is held.
So vehement were the league's objections that even the Christopher Commission, which recommended wholesale revisions to the way the LAPD handled discipline, shied away from proposing civilian review boards.
But his vehement tone is unrelenting.
Throughout those trials, McCarthy remained an obscure politician, whose most vehement speech was against sugar rationing.
The most vehement protester is the captain, Whelan, who conceded the free-kick.
"Vehement denial is a reliable sign that an insight has hit the mark," says Franzen at one point, echoing Freud.
