The makers of better wines "are ferociously opposed," Mr. Dreyer, 50, said by phone.

The Third Home Rule Bill introduced in 1912 was as in 1886 and 1893 ferociously opposed by Ulster unionists, for whom Home Rule was synonymous with Rome Rule as well as being indicative of economic decline and a threat to their cultural identity.

While the Greek colonels were at times prepared to make a deal with Turkey about Cyprus, Grivas was ferociously opposed to any arrangement that did not lead to complete enosis.

He has been closely aligned with organized labor throughout his career, and the unions are ferociously opposed to the trade agreement.

The measure, sponsored by the subcommittee chairman, Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, is expected to be ferociously opposed by the tobacco industry.

Marc Blitzstein's musical position paper in defense of labor unions, "The Cradle Will Rock," is a period piece that begs an understanding of its period: the later years of the Depression when unions were exercising fresh muscles and being ferociously opposed by industrialists.

Ferociously opposed to the 1914 Union sacrée, Sorel denounced the war and in 1917 praised the Russian Revolution, calling Lenin "the greatest theoretician of socialism since Marx."

Endeavors to clear Wilde's name were ferociously opposed: "You may be quite sure you will never be asked to the house again," Douglas wrote to Wilde's primary defender, Robert Ross, after physically attacking him at a dinner party.

The reform was ferociously opposed by the Chinese Communist Party government as the violation to the Sino-British agreement.

I believe he is ferociously opposed to the euro, as he has every right to be.