But a group of white Aldermen, some of them Mr. Washington's most virulent critics, threw their votes to Mr. Sawyer and, in effect, crowned him mayor.

I am also angry at the fact that being a virulent critic of Labour's policies and tactics gets me labelled as a 'Tory.'

Of course, many of the most virulent critics never saw any of the first 2,176 points of Nykesha Sales's career, let alone the final 2.

His more virulent critics whisper of other, more embarrassing pictures, all in support of their general characterization of Weah as a callow playboy, well meaning but susceptible to manipulation.

An even more virulent critic was the maverick Gândirea editor and left-leaning Trăirist Petre Pandrea, who contends that Tudor was notorious as a blackmailer.

Roger Fry of the Bloomsbury Group was a particularly virulent critic.

The Gallery's most virulent critic was J. Morris Moore, who wrote a series of letters to The Times under the pseudonym "Verax" savaging the institution's recent cleanings.

This causes some embarrassment now and generates much media derision, but costs him little in the long run; Gore's most virulent leftist critics today will come home to him in November.

Until his death, Polonsky was a virulent critic of director Elia Kazan, who had testified before HUAC and provided names to the Committee.

He has been a virulent and harsh critic of Israel during his tenure in Congress.