They were most of them strong partisans, and an outrage had to be very real and very great to shake them even partially loose from their party affiliations.

Many immigrants regarded their stay in the United States as temporary and remained strong partisans in Greek politics.

These five young science students had become strong partisans of Pioneer Reventlo, and they set about gathering up more spikes for nailing up his precarious theory.

During the war they were strong partisans, and both fought gallantly all through the great struggle--Eng on the Union side and Chang on the Confederate.

Outside The Globe, he has strong partisans, as the scene at Fenway Park showed.

One third of Americans call themselves strong partisans, 28% express some party identification, though choose not to express it as strongly.

They simply didn'tsupport her, except with a certain disgruntled sense of civic responsibility, and there appeared to be significantly fewer of them than there were of the mayor's strong partisans.

Many Zulus, in fact, are strong partisans of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.

George W. Bush vs. Al Gore is not a compelling choice, except to the strong partisans among us.

On the other hand, to sum up the book's conclusions out of context would provide an excuse for strong partisans to reject what the author has to say.