At one of the largest, in Rawalpindi on Sept. 5, former Pakistan president Farooq Leghari launched the most vehement - and bizarre - attack yet.

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Russia, a vehement critic of American missile-defence plans, says these would violate the ABM treaty.

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Despite years of doping whispers and suspicions, Armstrong managed to maintain a surprisingly positive public image through vehement denials, his feel-good comeback from cancer and his charitable work with Livestrong.

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Transport Secretary Justine Greening - whose Putney constituency is on the Heathrow flightpath - has been a vehement campaigner against a third runway at the airport.

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Moreover, Mr Clinton denied the affair emphatically on television, and the image of the vehement president denouncing his accusers has been re-shown repeatedly.

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Earlier this year, under then-Chairman Harvey Pitt, the Commission ordered fund families to begin disclosing how they cast proxy ballots over vehement industry objections.

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