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Burnham was also a staunch supporter of justice for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

His parents both worked for the government and his father, a member of the security services, had always been a staunch defender of the Communist regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Zikhali Barthman, 65, had been a staunch supporter of the ANC for years.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

But any relationship with China is also a balancing act, especially for a staunch US ally like Japan.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

He fumbled for a bandage to staunch the commander’s bleeding.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Two years after the WTO's last ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi failed to make meaningful progress on key issues like fisheries and agriculture, the organisation's 166 members will be facing even stauncher challenges in Yaounde.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

However, the source said Reeker tried to get the agency to issue a stauncher defense of Yovanovitch.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2019

He conceived it as an alternative to 4chan, one with an even stauncher commitment to anything-goes content moderation.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019

Saudi Arabia and the U.S. strongly backed Hadi, and the new president proved a stauncher ally to the U.S. than Saleh in the fight against al-Qaida’s branch in the country.

From Time ● Mar. 22, 2015

This splendid fire-eating Quaker—is there anything stauncher than a fighting Quaker?—proceeded to enlist in the Pennsylvania division of the Flying Camp under General Roberdeau; then he went as aide-de-camp to General Greene.

From Greenwich Village by Cram, Allan G. (Allan Gilbert)

“He became one of my staunchest supporters and schooled me on whom I could trust and whom I could never turn my back on.”

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026

Poland has long counted itself one of the U.S.’s staunchest allies since the end of the Cold War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Poland and Lithuania are among the staunchest supporters of Kyiv in the European Union, and both have recently supplied hundreds of generators to the war-torn country.

From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026

Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress as one of Donald Trump's staunchest defenders.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

And yet Howland Reed had been one of Father's staunchest companions during the war for King Robert's crown, before Bran was bom.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin