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Indonesia's courts are cleaner at the top, and the Head of the Supreme Court is a staunch advocate of democracy and press freedom.
In his staunch commitment to advancing social justice, Sanders also clearly embraces this strand of American Jewish identity.
By combining staunch military resistance to rebellion with a political program designed to entice rebels back to normal life, the Uribe government has demonstrated that insurgencies can be curtailed.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, both countries became staunch NATO allies even before they joined the EU.
When he protested that he was a staunch non-smoker, the doctor commented that X-rays of his lungs showed otherwise.
She was also a staunch secularist who established a foundation to provide scholarships to young girls so they could attend school.
Germany’s position in the refugee crisis has transformed the AfD into a staunch anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim movement, supported by disillusioned voters from across the political spectrum.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has emerged as a staunch defender of the country, exemplified in a 2008 address to the Knesset (Israel’s parliament), in which she identified Israel’s security as an essential feature of Germany’s Staatsraison.
After all, as one of the world’s largest democracies and a staunch supporter of multilateralism, Brazil has more in common with proponents of the liberal order than with China, Russia, or Turkey.
But sensitivity to human rights has done nothing to staunch trade unionism's worldwide decline.
Despite being seen as a pro-China “hawk” and a staunch supporter of the CCP, Leung was deemed unfit.
Under Trump, the US has also become a staunch supporter of authoritarian regimes, from Saudi Arabia to the Philippines.
Indeed, because of America’s staunch support of Israel, especially now that President Donald Trump has given Binyamin Netanyahu’s government license to do anything it likes, Israeli oppression of the Palestinians is seen as a common US-Israeli enterprise.
But even as these efforts are gathering momentum, The Financial Times, which used to be a staunch supporter of multilateral free trade, dropped a cluster bomb on Doha, even congratulating itself that, in 2008 (when a ministerial meeting failed to reach closure), it “argued that leaders should admit the negotiations were dead.”
Indeed, pundits explained Syria’s initial immunity to the Arab Spring by pointing to the regime’s staunch defense of Arab dignity, reflected in its resolute hostility towards Israel.
One response was the decision by the People’s Bank of China to increase the one-year interest rate from 5.31% to 5.58%– its first rate hike in over nine years – in an effort to curb fixed-investment growth, staunch increasing prices, and offset a worrying decline in savings.
To staunch the flow of migrants over the Balkan route, Hungary has imposed controls on its borders – and was promptly followed by Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Poland.
In these epochal battles, women's fiercest enemy has been tradition, and its staunch ally: religion.
Today’s Dark Lords of FinanceLONDON – In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, Lords of Finance, the economist Liaquat Ahamad tells the story of how four central bankers, driven by staunch adherence to the gold standard, “broke the world” and triggered the Great Depression.
And, with the “troika" (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) intervening in the most mundane decisions, a sense of bitterness and anger has permeated public opinion, even among staunch pro-Europeans.
But Turkey now finds itself increasingly isolated from both camps, owing to its downing of the Russian fighter and its staunch opposition to Assad, whom both American and European leaders increasingly believe will have to play some role in any political settlement.
This would have serious consequences for the US and other staunch Western supporters of Israel that have major strategic and economic interests in the region.
This staunch commitment to sovereignty also led the BRICS to oppose sanctions against the Syrian regime, which is massacring its civilian population with impunity.
He is a staunch advocate of industrial policies, which will lead him into sharp confrontation with the European Commission and many of his colleagues.
It will be particularly significant for Poland, a staunch ally of the US in NATO.
The conservatives were often staunch Roman Catholics, who felt deeply uncomfortable with the secular French Republic, which they associated with liberals and Jews.
Finland, a staunch supporter of firm austerity policies, is in negative territory for the first half of the year.
Majali remains a staunch champion of the idea, as he made clear in a recent meeting in Amman with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
But the Spanish government’s staunch refusal to authorize such a referendum has left Catalans with only one option: to demonstrate their will by filling their parliament with candidates who will push for sovereignty.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim is a liberal: he is also a staunch Egyptian and Arab nationalist.
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