He of course faced a very strong opponent, the former member of Congress, Anne Northup.
As for Goldwater, it's true that in his dotage he was a strong opponent of social conservatism.
And although he was at first sympathetic to the hugely controversial "poll tax", he became a strong opponent.
He has been a strong opponent of gun-control, something that will deservedly do him few favours with women voters.
Ryan has also been cast as a strong opponent to President Obama, not afraid to back down on key policy issues.
At the time, Gregory was interviewing Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association, a strong opponent of new gun control proposals.
Iran was a strong opponent of the Taliban, which sheltered Osama bin Laden and others before the U.S.-led invasion after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
He played a key role in the passage of the War Powers Act, which limited presidential power, and was a strong opponent of the Vietnam War and the 1970 bombing of Cambodia.
Gauck is an independent political thinker from the former east who was a strong opponent of the communist government, and who was nominated by the left-leaning SPD party in 2010 to run for president of Germany.
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Given the extraordinary share of foreign trade in its overall economy (as high as up to 65 percent of its gross domestic product), China has become a champion of free trade and strong opponent to protectionism.
At the time, Mr Brennan said in a letter to Mr Obama that he had been "a strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration, such as the pre-emptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics, to include waterboarding".
"Fatigue was starting to affect me and my opponent was very strong, " world number 32 Dulgheru told the official WTA Tour Web site.
Nonetheless, he is one of the party's greatest advocates of a strong separate identity and is an opponent of links with Labour.
Johnson, a member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and a strong supporter of a bill to revamp the IRS, will not know who her Democratic opponent is until the state's September primary, but she has had to slog through increasingly tough re-election races in recent years.
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