"Our opponents will deride our tax-cutting record as extreme and demean our administration as cruel," Mr. Pataki wrote in a two-page fund-raising letter dated April 25.

His opponents derided his argument.

Some opponents derided the effort as "Andy Green's hobby."

Some opponents deride Mitchell as an old man in a young man's job, but he just smiles.

Voter 'Heartburn' Political opponents deride such efforts as meaningless political gimmickry.

Mr. Ozal's divided opponents have derided the slogan, but their challenge is hampered by popular support for the Prime Minister's goals.

But what opponents deride as inexperience and inflexibility, supporterssee as a willingness to skewer special interest groups and the courage to stick to a pledge of no new taxes.

That term was born just after World War I, as opponents of a League of Nations derided what a Times editorial called "a super-State, a super-Power."

Political opponents rudely derided the idea as a high-tech campaign billboard for Mr. Gore's Presidential ambitions.

His opponents derided the appointment as an act of nepotism.