When Shah Jehan's army attacked the guru in 1635 at Lehra near Mehraj, Kala along with his clan sided firmly with him.

During the Shaba invasions, France sided firmly with Mobutu: during the first Shaba invasion, France airlifted 1,500 Moroccan paratroopers to Zaire, and the rebels were repulsed.

After hearing the theologians, the bishop sided firmly with the Jesuits, but a year later "many ecclesiastics and educated persons" continued to voice their objections.

Schuchardt firmly sided with the outdated viewpoint of the Vasco-Iberian hypothesis, which stands in stark contrast to his earlier open-mindedness.

The Cornishman sided firmly with Bogue, and immediately identified two donors, one of £500, and one of £100.

Germany's Minister for Telecommunications, Wolfgang Botsch, not only sided firmly with Telekom but flew to Brussels several times to make his case with Mr. Van Miert.

From this point on Pembroke sided firmly with King Edward in the political conflict.

Richard Peck, the university's interim president, who is an ex-smoker, firmly sided with Mr. Nelson's decision, saying: "I don't think we should make a profit from lung cancer."

With the outbreak of The Silesian Uprising, Hochberg sided firmly with the German cause and afforded the land to German paramilitary organizations, even for prison, where Polish prisoners were kept.

When the two kings had resolved their differences, Dynamius sided firmly with Childebert.