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The First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria said Haines was a "staunch supporter" of Indigenous rights as well.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Waaka scored her second try to close the gap before the break, but after the interval Fiji's staunch defence still refused to give way.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Councilmember Traci Park, a staunch supporter of plate reader technology, said there is an urgent need to get the devices “up and running.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Mistral, for its part, has been a staunch defender of open-weight models, saying they give users the flexibility to tailor them to their needs while protecting their data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

He began his Sunday with a twelve-minute phone call to his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, a staunch believer in the Madman Theory.

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, member states face even stauncher challenges.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 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

It was a stauncher craft than the three churns had anticipated, though Frank had good reason to know the value of the rude canoe.

From Frank Roscoe's Secret Or, the Darewell Chums in the Woods by Allen Chapman

But he later became one of his staunchest backers.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

“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

In a high-profile summit Tuesday, the leaders of Japan and South Korea—two of the U.S.’s staunchest allies—put on a display of unity in the face of rising economic, technological and military pressures from China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

At Granja Elena in Zona Franca, I enjoyed a tomato and scallop tartare that could entice even the staunchest carnivore.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 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