0 eagerly; quickly -- ivrig, raskt
The thieves were hotly pursued by the police.
1 angrily; passionately -- rasende, lidenskapelig
The accusations were hotly denied.
Apart from heralding freedoms of association, assembly, and the media, these multi-party contests in what may be called the ' interregnum ' were hotly fought and full of political interest.
More important still, the way of asking the question already provides a framework for assessing the impact of preferences on something as hotly debated as stem cell research on embryos.
The issue is still hotly debated.
The aetiology of these conditions has been hotly debated over the past 20 years.
Of course, exactly who ' the people' that ought to be directly represented were remained a hotly contested issue.
Their respective claims on the welfare state have been perceived as broadly legitimate, although hotly contested at the margins.
As with many hotly debated phenomena in political science, these have come in multiple or even contradictory versions.
Any work that pushes hotly contested debates forwards will always draw critical responses.