11.   Stockard Channing is being honored by the Human Rights Campaign for what the group calls her ardent support of the gay and lesbian community.

12.   The hallmarks of his five-year term have been his ardent support for Polish entry into NATO and the European Union.

13.   In this period, she expressed ardent support for stronger democratic institutions in Hong Kong, a position from which she afterwards retreated.

14.   Although the euro has enjoyed the ardent support of German leaders, it found little favor with most Germans until recently.