Anything that might divert men and materiel from that conflict is stoutly opposed.

This was stoutly opposed in the Assembly by Satyamurthi Iyer, an orthodox Congress member, under the pretext of safeguarding the Hindu traditions.

They were stoutly opposed by the Portuguese, and success was doubtful, till Ranoji Bhonsle scaled the wall in another part and divided the attention of the garrison.

President Bush has stoutly opposed them, arguing that they could easily lead to a too rapid removal of nuclear weapons from Europe.

But that proposition is stoutly opposed by Mr. Vasilyev of the Privatization Committee.

R. A. Butler was no warm friend of Churchill, the Prime Minister, whose politics on India he had stoutly opposed in the 1930s.

Dix was a staunch advocate for intellectual freedom and stoutly opposed censorship.

An involvement with period instruments is novel for Mr. Schiff, who has stoutly opposed many practices of the early-music movement (though his teachers included the English harpsichordist George Malcolm).

Long they fought equally, until the Miller began to lose temper at finding himself so stoutly opposed, and at hearing the laughter of his companions, who, as usual in such cases, enjoyed his vexation.