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He issued a no-bid contract to a company that botched the renovation, according to staunch Trump loyalist Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

As energy secretary in Sir Keir Starmer's government, Ed Miliband was a staunch supporter of Labour's manifesto position.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Following the meetings, all three men attended the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who up until his death on July 11 was a staunch supporter of both Ukraine and Israel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Maduro had long been a staunch ally of Cuba.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

In my mind, she’d been so vigorous, so staunch, that surely if death was to approach her, she would give it a good tongue-lashing and send it on its way.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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)

That story, published Monday, was too much even for his staunchest backers.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 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

Poland and Denmark rank among Ukraine’s staunchest wartime allies and are now looking to Kyiv for support.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

Al-though he could have been a prime minister of South Africa, he became one of the bravest and staunchest friends of the freedom struggle that I have ever known.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela