Worth was an avid opponent of North Carolina's secession from the Union.

"The most avid Congressional opponents of the provision could not have asked for more," he said.

Okumura was an avid opponent of the unions he refused to shelter or aid strikers following the evictions.

Though a representative of the great landowners himself, and an avid opponent of the bourgeois influence of Sigbrit, Gøye and Christian II seemed to maintain loyalty towards one another.

He was also widely known to be an avid opponent of President Obasanjo's attempts in 2006 to engineer a way that would enable himself and state governors to serve more than two consecutive terms.

He was an avid opponent of Nazism and in 1936 he wrote the poem "Du må ikke sove" ("Dare not to sleep!"

It was all but ordained when the Senate confirmed an avid opponent of women's reproductive rights, Samuel Alito, to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

"We're losing," complained Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, a Republican Presidential candidate, who is an avid opponent of gun control.

Hobhouse was an avid opponent of the First World War and protested vigorously against it.

Despite their party's plan for cutting taxes by $245 billion over seven years, Republicans in the poll were among the most avid opponents of them.