Stauncher

Mr. Kiwanuka, who is 6-foot-5 and 265 pounds, is generally viewed as being stauncher against the run than the 6-foot-3, 261-pound Mr. Umenyiora. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Future Games was doing great in the States and we were getting top billing at the Fillmore East (where Van Morrison opened for us) and had broken house records for sellouts in some of our stauncher venues. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If Mary, who was a staunch Catholic, married Philip, who was even stauncher, the Catholic hold on England would be secure again. ❋ GILBERT MORRIS (2010)

Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang advocated marshaling vitamin and nutritional forces against the AIDS virus, H.I.V. She maintained that foods like garlic, lemon, African potatoes and beetroot were stauncher defenses than the antiretroviral drugs that had been proved to prolong the lives of H.I.V.-positive patients and to help prevent the passage of the virus from pregnant women to their babies. ❋ EliRabett (2009)

"There has been no larger, stauncher opponent of Net Neutrality," a surprised Jason Lee Miller writes about AT&T recent rhetorical change up. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Still, one would like to know how that leadership in Europe is to be achieved, particularly if it means being a stauncher ally of the United States that way. ❋ Helen (2006)

She was, perhaps, a little stauncher than her husband in Protestantism; and though she was willing to admit that Mr Barham might not have ceased to be a gentleman when he became a Roman Catholic priest, she was not quite sure that it was expedient for her or her husband to have much to do with him. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Devil has no stauncher ally than want of perception. — ❋ Unknown (2004)

And while he may not wear a flag pin on his lapel, a stauncher defender of democracy would be hard to find. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He had wider shoulders and a stauncher frame than his elder brother and could now handle himself in any scrap without Urza's help. ❋ Grubb, Jeff (1998)

They will make it stauncher and braver and more revolutionary. ❋ Unknown (1961)

These gallant fellows, I should add, to give all honour to the corps, stood stauncher even than we bluejackets did that day; for, not a man turned his back on the foe until the captain gave the word. ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)

No man has more bitter enemies or stauncher friends than he. ❋ William Wells Brown (N/A)

It was a stauncher craft than the three churns had anticipated, though Frank had good reason to know the value of the rude canoe. ❋ Allen Chapman (N/A)

But he -- he was stauncher; he was most to be trusted when the game seemed all but lost. ❋ Coningsby Dawson (1921)

When an honourable peace has been confirmed, there will be no stauncher pacifist than the soldier; but we reserve our pacifism till the war is won. ❋ Coningsby Dawson (1921)

She always had a rough tongue, but there is no stauncher friend in England than Evelyn Howard. '' ❋ Unknown (1920)

The number of converts in any denomination compared to the number of stauncher adherents is ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)