1.   Clinton has been consistently gentle and generous with even his most strident critics.

2.   His support for innovation and new technology endears him to them, and he is not nearly as strident a critic as the Green Party candidate, Ralph Nader.

3.   Most speculation focuses on Mosbacher, expected to be omnipresent in television campaign commercials, and Greanias, the former controller and often a strident critic of Lanier.

4.   So seductive is the technology that even its most strident critics cannot imagine voluntarily going without e-mail.

5.   The most strident critics of China seem to be unaware that they feed paranoia and misunderstanding in Beijing.

6.   Australia has been a strident critic of both China and France over the testing issue.

7.   He has since become a strident critic of his former patron, the United States, as well as the U.S.-backed interim administration.

8.   Hekmatyar was a strident critic of the United States and the U.S.-backed interim Afghan administration.

9.   McCaffrey had been a strident critic of the International Olympic Committee and its anti-doping policies.

10.   Moellemann, who heads a group promoting German-Arab business ties, is a strident critic of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.