1.   ...a fierce opponent of vivisection.

2.   And the change of power in the Senate brings a fierce Yucca opponent, Harry Reid, D-Nev., to the position of deputy majority leader.

3.   -- Government agencies themselves have been fierce opponents of increasing safety requirements for government aviation.

4.   A call for his ouster came not unexpectedly from the Rev. Ian Paisley, head of the hard-line Democratic Unionists and a fierce opponent of the peace settlement.

5.   A fierce opponent of British involvement in Northern Ireland, he once harbored a deserter from the British army in his home.

6.   But fierce opponents and hard economics have shrunk the road to a six-lane boulevard with traffic lights and the park to an emerald sliver.

7.   But the mine has fierce opponents, too, both in Montana and in neighboring Idaho, who say it will cause serious environmental problems.

8.   He was a fierce opponent of high interest rates, but also believed that government should do as much as it could to expand employment opportunities.

9.   He was a fierce opponent of what he regarded as excessive violence and pornography in films and on television and sponsored many bills to curb them.

10.   He was painfully aware that he and his family could be the target of a fierce opponent of abortions and took precautions.