That is, he was neither a militant opponent of the Tehran regime, nor had he been forced to flee Iran by persecution.

In parliament, he was a fairly frequent speaker who was seen as a militant opponent of Gladstone.

He thought the Anglo-Saxons faced certain disaster from their militant opponents.

In his later years, such support for the dictatorship was tempered by the arrest and torture of his son, a militant opponent of the regime.

Later, the Islamic movement known as Hamas, a powerful force in Gaza and a militant opponent of the peace talks, distributed leaflets taking responsibility for the attack.

Caught in its own contradictions, the regime has a hard time, politically, cracking down on militant opponents.

Five people have been shot to death at abortion clinics in the last 22 months, and militant opponents of abortion have vowed to step up their activities.

In 1873, the feminist Miss Woodhull, an advocate of free love and a militant opponent of women's dependence on men, spoke in the Great Hall.

To the dismay of some militant opponents in the clergy and in Government, the President has argued that wealth is not evil.

Saddam Hussein's Iraq was among the most militant opponents of Israel's right to exist.