1.   Ashcroft was an ardent Senate opponent of the litigation.

2.   Because all jurors in capital cases must be willing to impose a death sentence, there are no ardent opponents of the death penalty on the jury.

3.   Board member Julie Korenstein, the most ardent Belmont opponent, said the politics have changed and a final decision has become increasingly difficult.

4.   Buchanan is an ardent America First opponent of free trade and open borders, an impassioned crusader against abortion, and a pure isolationist in foreign affairs.

5.   But the personal anguish the president reportedly went through in reaching the decision softened the criticism from the most ardent opponents of embryonic research and abortion.

6.   Even ardent opponents of the proposal concede it would pass overwhelmingly if presented to voters here any time soon.

7.   Even the most ardent opponents conceded that some bill would probably pass.

8.   Former senator Jane Swift, a North Adams Republican whom Cellucci chose as his running mate, was an ardent opponent of a ban.

9.   He is an ardent opponent of affirmative action and other race-based social programs.

10.   In fact, the most ardent opponents of the vote to override, in both the Senate and Assembly, were liberal Democrats.