Lucas was also nominated the Democratic candidate for governor in 1832, and won after a vitriolic campaign.

But the vitriolic anti-American campaign has struck a sympathetic chord in many Panamanians, especially among the poor and blacks.

Hudaybi went into hiding, and the official press launched a vitriolic campaign to discredit him.

During the often bitter and vitriolic campaign, the 57-year-old Mr. Pindling had denied allegations that he was involved with drug traffickers.

The 54-year-old strongman has responded with a vitriolic campaign in which he has tried to portray himself and Panama as a victim of American imperialism.

And now, some are distressed by the example the vitriolic campaign is setting in a country that is supposedly striving for the rule of law and more freedoms.

It was a vitriolic, personal campaign with the games as a focus.

The vitriolic campaign of Richard Wagner against Meyerbeer was to a great extent responsible for the decline of Meyerbeer's popularity after his death in 1864.

The vitriolic campaign by major competitors of United Airlines to undermine its application for $1.8 billion in federal loan guarantees is only growing more brutal in its final days.

In the face of a vitriolic campaign of official condemnation, other former members have been cowed into silence or have given up the movement's trademark meditation exercises.