The Principality of Monaco has always been a staunch defender of humanitarian law.

Instead of giving in to grief, depression, defeat in the face of that violence, Mairead hooked up with Betty a staunch Protestant and a staunch Catholic and they took to the streets to say, No more violence.

And then, as he was a staunch anti colonialist, he made false papers for Algerians during the Algerian war.

The chiefs among them go about, exhorting Go and be staunch to your gods! Lo! this is a thing designed.

The chiefs among them go about, exhorting Go and be staunch to your gods! Lo! this is a thing designed.

Moreover, various sectors of society had signified their staunch opposition to the death penalty, including the Coalition Against the Death Penalty.

Ravaged throughout its history by a multitude of devastating wars, Belarus has always been a staunch advocate of peace and a worker for peace.

The Republic of Belarus is a staunch supporter of strengthening the safeguards regime and strictly honours its international obligations under the NPT and its safeguards agreement.

Norway remained a staunch supporter of the United Nations, a fact underscored by its being the fifth largest donor to the United Nations development activities in absolute terms.

They are not all alike. Of the People of the Scripture there is a staunch community who recite the revelations of Allah in the night season, falling prostrate (before Him).

They are not all alike. Of the People of the Scripture there is a staunch community who recite the revelations of Allah in the night season, falling prostrate (before Him).

Trade unions tend to be among the most liberal and progressive segments of the society and they are staunch advocates of all workers rights, including equal remuneration for work of equal value.

Even Germany s GDP declined in quarterly terms in the first half of the year. Finland, a staunch supporter of firm austerity policies, is in negative territory for the first half of the year.

He would have led us far away from our gods if we had not been staunch to them. They will know, when they behold the doom, who is more astray as to the road.

He would have led us far away from our gods if we had not been staunch to them. They will know, when they behold the doom, who is more astray as to the road.

The roots of US strategy in Syria lie in a strange and unsuccessful union of two sources of American foreign policy. One comprises the US security establishment, including the military, the intelligence agencies, and their staunch supporters in Congress.

And they get me to that nearby hospital, Cedars Sinai, where that night I receive, because of my internal bleeding, 45 units of blood which means full replacements of all the blood in me before they're able to staunch the flow.

Until a decade ago, Turkey was regarded as no more than a staunch NATO ally. That began to change in 2002, when an era of political stability dawned, giving rise to a vision for a stronger Turkey and a firm commitment to realizing that vision.

The use of the CIA as a secret army of destabilization has a long, tragic history of failure, all hidden from public view under the agency s cloak of secrecy. Ending CIA caused mayhem would go far to staunch the instability, violence, and anti Western hatred that fuels today s terrorism.

Now, too, the Enlightenment is often invoked as shorthand for the Western values that are supposedly in danger of Islamization. Now, too, people warn of Muslim tricksters, states within states, the impossibility of assimilation, and the necessity for staunch secularists to free the benighted Muslims from their faith.

Congress documented and publicized the actions of the executive branch in the torture report. Senator Dianne Feinstein worked doggedly to ensure that the Senate intelligence committee could research and document US interrogation practices, even in the face of staunch opposition by the CIA (which even surreptitiously searched the committee s computers).

They are still mostly being welcomed, but the capacity of the reception centers is fast reaching its limits. To staunch the flow of migrants over the Balkan route, Hungary has imposed controls on its borders and was promptly followed by Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Poland.

LONDON In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Lords of Finance, the economist Liaquat Ahamad tells the story of how four central bankers, driven by staunch adherence to the gold standard, broke the world and triggered the Great Depression. Today s central bankers largely share a new conventional wisdom about the benefits of loose monetary policy.

To be sure, Iran s alliances are vulnerable to erosion and, in the case of two staunch allies, Syria and Venezuela, to outright collapse. The end of Chavismo would threaten Iran s vast interests in Venezuela and its considerable presence in the Andes, while the fall of the Assad dynasty would be a devastating blow to Iran s regional strategy.

As if the Israeli Palestinian conflict s depth and duration were not enough to merit an international solution, there is also the issue of Palestine s mistrust of the US. For Palestinians, the US a staunch ally of Israel whose leaders have strong domestic political incentives not to challenge it cannot act as an honest broker in negotiations.

Bilateral trade stands at about 40 billion a year, and China is not only Iran s largest customer for crude oil, but also a colossal investor somewhere between 40 billion and 100 billion in Iran s energy and transport sectors. True, China cannot entirely overlook US pressure and the staunch opposition of its top oil supplier, Saudi Arabia, to Iran s nuclear program.

The new strategy that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been promoting to staunch the upward trend of narco trafficking related murders which leaked Mexican government reports put at more than 22,000 since late 2006 is to build stronger, more resilient communities. Ciudad Juárez, a sprawling Mexican border town that is now the homicide capital of the world, would have to be high on the list.

This leaves Iran the opening it needs to place a strategic bet that the Syrian conflict will generate increasing friction between the West and Iran s regional archrival, Saudi Arabia. For Iran, a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime, a weaker US Saudi relationship is key to shifting the regional balance of power especially if it is accompanied by the easing of Western economic sanctions.

He is a staunch advocate of industrial policies, which will lead him into sharp confrontation with the European Commission and many of his colleagues. He also harbors a deep distrust of financial markets and often advocates more regulation, and sees the strong euro as a threat to French industry and the result of speculation, which has already provoked serious clashes with the European Central Bank.

He is a staunch advocate of industrial policies, which will lead him into sharp confrontation with the European Commission and many of his colleagues. He also harbors a deep distrust of financial markets and often advocates more regulation, and sees the strong euro as a threat to French industry and the result of speculation, which has already provoked serious clashes with the European Central Bank.

MOSCOW Germany s ex Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is a legend in Russia. He serves Gazprom s interests for a measly couple of million euros a year, sits in at sessions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and writes books about his staunch friendship with Genosse Wladimir, who, in the not so distant past, earned himself the well deserved nickname of Stasi among business circles in gangster ridden St. Petersburg.

O ye who believe! Be ye staunch in justice, witnesses for Allah, even though it be against yourselves or (your) parents or (your) kindred, whether (the case be of) a rich man or a poor man, for Allah is nearer unto both (them ye are). So follow not passion lest ye lapse (from truth) and if ye lapse or fall away, then lo! Allah is ever Informed of what ye do.

O ye who believe! Be ye staunch in justice, witnesses for Allah, even though it be against yourselves or (your) parents or (your) kindred, whether (the case be of) a rich man or a poor man, for Allah is nearer unto both (them ye are). So follow not passion lest ye lapse (from truth) and if ye lapse or fall away, then lo! Allah is ever Informed of what ye do.

Finally, following Russia s annexation of Crimea in 2014, which drove a wedge between the Kremlin and the West, Turkey had carved out a strategically advantageous position between the two sides. But Turkey now finds itself increasingly isolated from both camps, owing to its downing of the Russian fighter and its staunch opposition to Assad, whom both American and European leaders increasingly believe will have to play some role in any political settlement.

The debate over how to value the yuan is at the heart of the two year struggle by the country s policymakers to slow down China s overheating economy. One response was the decision by the People s Bank of China to increase the one year interest rate from 5.31 to 5.58 its first rate hike in over nine years in an effort to curb fixed investment growth, staunch increasing prices, and offset a worrying decline in savings.