staunch Betydning & definition

Eksempler på staunch

• In this region, too, frustration is growing among the civilian population, due to the government's inability to staunch a destructive rebellion which has little popular support.

• He was a brilliant scientist and a staunch supporter of this journal, and will be greatly missed by his many friends and colleagues around the world.

• By the late 1840s he was emerging as a leading liberal agriculturalist, a staunch supporter of free trade in food and an advocate of ' high farming'.

• Will he tell us what he is doing now to staunch the flow of nurses resigning from the national health service?

• I am, as you know, a staunch supporter of enlargement.

• Of course, you can always count on my staunch support.

• They have been our friends and staunch allies through many difficult situations.

• What an unspeakable relief his speeches and actions were to us; how staunch a friend he was even before he became our ally.