One Afghan warlord, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a Muslim fundamentalist, is viscerally opposed to Zahir Shah.

Labour's traditionalists are viscerally opposed to the Freud proposals.

Both prospects - Kurdish autonomy and Shiite ascendancy - are viscerally opposed by many Sunnis.

Other leaders, also sprayed in red, held their heads in their hands, dismayed that the congress of a party still viscerally opposed to force had descended so quickly into violence.

They also want to reduce the pressure for tax increases, to which the President is viscerally opposed.

In fact, psychiatrists have no good answer, and the boundary between mental illness and normal mental struggle has become a battle line dividing the profession into two viscerally opposed camps.

Tory voters viscerally opposed but, as recent polling has shown, so are a majority of voters across all the parties.

President Nicolas Sarkozy was quoted as being "viscerally opposed to any form of quota", while adding "setting quotas would be the end of the Republic".

When Andy Burnham, human weather vane, came out as the first cabinet minister against the deal, it was plain he scented too many in the party were viscerally opposed.

Russia's military is still viscerally opposed to the Atlantic alliance, as is Russia's Communist Party, which still commands a quarter of the popular vote.