1.   ...the most ardent defenders of conventional family values.

2.   AARP has become an ardent defender of this policy change that shackles seniors to Medicare.

3.   If that was a stretch inviting ridicule or outrage, Clinton emerged temporarily unscathed, with images of a warm embrace by a group of his most ardent defenders.

4.   In the years since, Roberts has become an ardent defender of the pesticide.

5.   Just ask ardent defenders of Charles Schwarz, the former police officer doing prison time for his role in the brutal assault on Abner Louima.

6.   Patterson, by contrast, is an ardent defender of affirmative action and gives it credit for much of the progress that has been made.

7.   Simultaneously, he forged an identity as an ardent defender of civil liberties and ally of tenants bucking what they saw as the tyranny of landlords.

8.   Still, patronage is an emotional issue and has its ardent defenders.

9.   To be sure, Clinton still has ardent defenders.

10.   While the president had his share of ardent defenders, many others fully believed the worst.