The Old Believers fiercely rejected all innovations, and the most radical amongst them maintained that the official Church had fallen into the hands of the Antichrist.

However, the people of Hope fiercely rejected any help from progressors, apparently, believing them to be Wanderers' agents.

And while he fiercely rejects Mr. Buchanan's calls for protectionism, he also suggests that retaliatory trade practices would be okay.

They fiercely rejected accusations that they were atheists.

"Ten Thousand Saints," by Eleanor Henderson (Ecco; $26.99) Henderson paints a compelling portrait of Generation Xers who fiercely reject their parents' values of free love.

The union has warmed to that form of merit pay, while fiercely rejecting Mr. Giuliani's version, which would reward individual teachers.

Ritter fiercely rejected Fischer's arguments that Germany was primarily responsible for the outbreak of war in 1914.

Some of them fiercely reject a heritage they do not really understand.

The mainstream photography community in America fiercely rejected Frank's work, but it would later become a stepping stone for fresh photographers looking to break away from the restrictions of the old style.

Along with the Bush administration, the other main opposition groups also fiercely reject the Iranian model of a cleric-run state.