1.   Ardent critics of the Chechen war were still seeking a peaceful outcome on Monday.

2.   Ashcroft was an ardent critic of abortion as a Republican senator from Missouri.

3.   Board member Abigail Thernstrom, an ardent Silber critic, said Peyser is not a strident ideologue intent on smashing the education bureacracy.

4.   Father Fiore has been an ardent critic of the cardinal, but he denied advising Cook to file suit against him.

5.   No one, not even the most ardent critics of the presidential summit, argues that volunteerism is worthless or should be discouraged.

6.   Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, an ardent critic of the bomber program, praised the action.

7.   She and her husband, Daniel, have been its most ardent critics.

8.   The gun lobby has been an ardent critic of agencies like the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which enforces gun regulations.

9.   Whatever the bias in the media, their most ardent critics are unabashedly more ideological.

10.   Yeltsin may look inside his own office, selecting, for example, Dmitri B. Ryurikov, his chief foreign policy adviser and an ardent critic of Kozyrev.