The most vehement detractors of nonpartisan elections have been Democratic Party officials, who say that such elections would undercut the political strength of black, Hispanic and Asian candidates.
The other is Edwin Ortiz, 35, who operates a youth drug prevention program in the Bronx and is being backed by some of the party organization's most vehement detractors.
MR. PARK'S most vehement detractors now include some of his earlier supporters: antigovernment activists who insist that he is a fake and that the real Minerva is still at large.
The younger Mr. Rivera faced Edwin Ortiz, 35, who runs a youth drug prevention program in the Bronx and was being backed by some of the party organization's most vehement detractors: State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. and his son Pedro Gautier Espada, a city councilman.
Although obviously taken with the idea of language evolution and language acquisition as a continuum seen in primitive form in other species, she gives Mr. Chomsky his due, despite his withering scorn for most of the ideas she presents, and defends him from his most vehement detractors.
"Throwing that kind of money at someone who has no real knowledge, understanding or respect for a space is an insult to the target audience," Jezebel's Jessica Coen, who was one of the site's most vehement detractors at launch, tells me.
But it had fierce detractors.
Few people have read the book, but the article has generated more than 150 online comments from vehement advocates and detractors, more than any other piece The Review has printed this year, said Liz McMillen, the editor.
The detractors were so vehement that two of them nearly withdrew from the voting.
Women are particularly vehement.
Nashir grew increasingly vehement.
