The appellate court, however, sided strongly with the WHA and Hull, calling the NHL's business practices monopolistic, conspiratorial, and illegal.

Johnson was a known slave holder in Kansas and sided strongly with the proslavery group in Kansas.

After initial hedging, the President strongly sided with Soviet freedom fighters.

In a letter issued in February 1993, the Government sided strongly with Microsoft's opponents.

The Daily News's editorial sided strongly with Mr. Bloomberg, aiming its shots at the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew.

Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis sided strongly with the companies, largely due to his hostility to all forms of socialism.

The Court in the Darby case sided strongly with Holmes' dissent, which they named "classic".

In a detailed, 31-page letter issued last week, the Patent Office sided strongly with Microsoft's opponents.

Miss Ginzburg strongly sided with the adoptive parents, arguing that their nurturing the child for 14 months should have entitled them to keep her.

However, it sided strongly with the military against the generally anti-socialist Islamists, and its leader, Abdelhak Benhamouda, was assassinated by the latter on January 28, 1997.