Sentence examples for zealous opponent from inspiring English sources

He was a leading figure in Vanguard, an extreme unionist outfit, and a zealous opponent of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.

Wise called himself a "zealous opponent of Chinese immigration" and set out to vigorously enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act, a 1882 law that banned from America all Chinese laborers.

Pike was certainly correct that Friend was "a zealous opponent of abortion".

that abortion should "turn the stomachs" of those who support Roe v. Wade; endorsed the re-election of Pennsylvania State Representative Stephen Friend, someone Mr. Pike described as a "zealous opponent of abortion" because "Friend's leadership and independence on other issues are more important than his crusade against the right to an abortion;".

It may also be that even the most zealous opponents of the president and his policies don't want to be preached at when they go to the movies.

The flaws in Diaz's plan became apparent soon after the red envelope reached the New York offices of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a left-wing legal-advocacy group that counted itself among the most zealous opponents of the administration's Guantanamo policy.

There are many ironies embedded in this moment: Xi has made it clear that he believes his success, and the future of the Party, hinges on the Party's ability to beat back corruption and restore the faith of his people, yet his administration is putting some of the country's most zealous opponents of corruption on trial.

Indeed, it can be argued that the biggest obstacles to a cut in the number of whales slaughtered do not lie with the harpoon-wielders, but rather with their most zealous opponents, for whom the best is the enemy of the good.Japan's critics say that by using a loophole in the IWC charter to practise "scientific" whaling, the country is violating the spirit of the document.

But they may have underestimated their opponents' zealous commitment to telling people how to live their lives.

Indeed, "John Wise, the collector who refused to admit Wong, described himself as a 'zealous opponent of Chinese immigration.'" writes University of Connecticut law professor Bethany Berger.

The plan noted that an "initiative to proactively open state park and forest land to horizontal drilling/fracturing will be met with zealous resistance by environmental activist opponents, who are skilled propagandists" (emphasis theirs).