Dale is highly suspicious of all levels of government and ardently defends his Second Amendment rights, once remarking, "Guns don't kill people; the government does."

He helped her steer clear of drugs and ardently defended her when she said Sarah's husband made a pass at her.

By the fall Mr. Dunne was writing newspaper articles, like an Op Ed piece last October in The Washington Post, ardently defending the Administration's position.

But it encourages and subsidizes settlements and many Israelis ardently defend them for four reasons, economic, military, historical and political.

In his writing he ardently defended American punk, exposing its roots in garage rock and teenage pop.

The struggle for leadership of the colony, which begins as a personality conflict between strong and well-matched individuals who ardently defend opposing positions, devolves into a somewhat murky interplanetary free-for-all.

He so ardently defended the centralist positions of his nephew, that the congress ordered both delegates from Cundinamarca imprisoned.

Mr. Gulotta ardently defended his record.

The European Parliament has always ardently defended very strict international rules that can be applied in practice.