1.   Despite vehement opposition, the Act became law.

2.   Pete Wilson supports the initiative, while Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown has staked her election hopes on vehement opposition.

3.   There has been vehement opposition from the fishing industry.

4.   The proposal has faced vehement opposition from many teachers.

5.   However, negotiations were broken off owing to the vehement opposition of anti-abortion Republicans, supported by Sununu.

6.   Another warlord, Abdur Rassool Sayyaf, who was named deputy prime minister of the interim government, this week announced his vehement opposition to any foreign security force.

7.   At that point Runcorn began to champion the theory, despite vehement opposition from leading geologists.

8.   Across the Capitol, Wellstone stood virtually alone among Senate Democrats in his vehement opposition to the deal.

9.   But Congress, in response to vehement opposition from civil liberties groups, changed that to a seven-day detention policy.