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Even his most bitter opponents can not prove he would have been a bad leader.

Before the fall of the city he was already well known as a bitter opponent of the union.

From this day on she'd doubtless be his bitterest opponent.

But be is against us, and is our bitterest opponent.

But there are still bitter opponents in the now leaderless Labor Party.

But soon afterward the two became bitter opponents.

I am sufficiently well known as a bitter opponent of "Theosophy" to risk nothing in making these remarks.

They had both supporters and bitter opponents within the Christian secular and religious leadership.

Since the legislation passed, he said, even bitter opponents are avidly joining discussions about design details.

You and Pompeius are going to have to seem like bitter opponents for the next almost six months."

His bitterest opponents were made into his devoted servants.

In later years he and Hirsch became bitter opponents as the leaders of two opposing Jewish movements.

But other millions were bitter opponents.

His bitter opponent, Tycho Brahe, was an only child.

He moved to Bremen for a brief time and became a bitter opponent to the Anabaptists.

In both matches, Harbhajan had a hand in removing both of his bitter opponents.

Those are very bitter opponents."

But later he became Fessler's bitter opponent.

He was a bitter opponent of the partition of 1947 and wrote several Bengali poems criticising it.

Even Mr. Dreier's bitterest opponents say he is up to the task.

For more than two decades, the Prince was a bitter opponent of Chief Buthelezi.

He could mold men's emotions and shape their minds so that his bitterest opponents were made into his devoted servants.

Clodius was famously a bitter opponent of Cicero.

Mr. Peterpaul was a bitter opponent of the first buyout effort, which he said required the company to take on too much debt.

A staunch right winger and free market advocate, she became a bitter opponent of the labour movement and Livingstone.

He was also a strong vocal opponent of the war in Vietnam.

But there were vocal opponents to migration among black leaders, too.

Today, however, the commission is a vocal opponent of rampant development.

He has been the most vocal opponent of the administration's plan and listed his many reasons at the meeting.

Monsanto is even meeting with some of its most vocal opponents.

He has been a vocal opponent of violence and extremism.

These developments turned him into a vocal opponent of the dictatorship.

Doris Davis had been a vocal opponent of the war since its beginning, however.

The letter said this group was "a vocal opponent" of implants.

Perhaps the most vocal opponents are those who see this project as detrimental to the traditional way of doing science.

He has developed an interest in climate change and become a vocal opponent of Proposition 23.

Despite assurances from state and company officials, the expansion has vocal opponents.

American dairy farmers were among the most vocal opponents of the agreement.

A new mayor and two trustees, all vocal opponents of the project, were elected.

And last year's most vocal opponents are now supporters.

Like many other in his party, Dumont was a vocal opponent of abortion.

The plan's many vocal opponents object mostly to the new incinerator.

When a company briefly took over the management of the public schools in Hartford, its most vocal opponent was the teachers' union.

He was later a vocal opponent of the Kosovo War.

However, his summary dismissal made him a vocal opponent of the occupation.

A vast majority of residents support the designation, the group found, and it turned up no vocal opponents.

In recent years drug stores and pain specialists have been the most vocal opponents of monitoring.

King has been a vocal opponent of illegal immigration.

Peterson was also a vocal opponent of free trade with the United States in 1988.

Like him, she has been an outspoken opponent of affirmative action.

He is an outspoken opponent of the plan to increase fees for foreign students.

Scott has been an outspoken opponent of the Bush agenda during his 8 years in office.

And they noted that even the most outspoken opponents in Congress still talk of compromise.

During his time there, he became an outspoken opponent of the Communist regime.

In 2002 and 2003 he was an outspoken opponent of the Iraq War.

He was known for being an outspoken opponent of tariffs on imported art.

He has been, for example, an outspoken opponent of nuclear weapons and armaments in general.

He was later an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War.

Religious groups, particularly the Catholic Church, are likely to be the bill's most outspoken opponents.

Another outspoken opponent of the invitations also pronounced himself pleased.

Fair has also been an outspoken opponent of evolution.

And German businesses have been outspoken opponents against any new restrictions on data scrambling.

Pratt became an outspoken opponent of tribal segregation on reservations.

He also established the paper editorially as an outspoken opponent of slavery.

The bishop, an outspoken opponent of abortion, said afterward that the visit had nothing to do with politics.

Justice Handler is the most outspoken opponent of capital punishment remaining on the court.

Several outspoken opponents said they were hiding from security men who were hunting them down.

He is 50, has seven children, and is an outspoken opponent of the miniskirt.

It should be pointed out that George Bush has been an outspoken opponent of marijuana.

Sullivan was an early and outspoken opponent of British colonial policies leading to the revolution.

Like his late predecessor, Flynn is an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq.

He is a devout pacifist and an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.

Absent from the President's schedule was any session with outspoken opponents of the Government.