Both share the support of Evangelical voters and both Republicans have taken fiercely conservative stances on abortion and a hawkish position on Iran.

In Congress, Mr. Herlong was known as fiercely conservative on tax issues and as a spokesman for oil and cattle interests.

Despite being a Democrat, Williams was fiercely conservative and possessed an assertive personality and held a high sense of duty.

In this fiercely conservative Algerian society, Miss Fathi chose not to go back to her village because she felt ashamed.

The population at the old capital remained fiercely conservative, while the population at Luoyang were much more eager to adopt Xiaowen's policies of sinicization.

The Kremlin has done little to help the fiercely conservative farmers cope with the brave new world of capitalism.

To an extent that would have seemed unimaginable a few years ago, most European countries have adopted fiercely conservative fiscal and monetary policies that are surprisingly in harmony with one another.

In a fiercely conservative country she has spent her life fighting for women's rights, including campaigns against female circumcision, domestic violence and political exclusion.

Although many blacks in South Africa have small farm plots, agribusiness has been a white preserve, and a fiercely conservative one.

The fiercely conservative 77-year-old North Carolina Republican has the power as chairman to ignore the broad, bipartisan support that Mr. Holbrooke enjoys in the Senate.