(a.) Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.
(a.) Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent; passionate; as, a vehement affection or passion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(2) The collectively bargained rights of all players must be vehemently preserved and we take that obligation seriously,” the statement said.
(3) When Scholes decided his time as a player was at an end last season not many disagreed vehemently.
(4) Yet some members of the church who profess desire to adhere most strictly to the teachings of Christ are the most vehement objectors to behavior that most resembles what his might have been.
(5) A shame such a landmark achievement was soured by Allam refusing to talk to the local council over a potential stadium expansion and trying to change the club’s name to Hull Tigers, which many fans vehemently oppose.
(6) Saudis and their Sunni Arab allies view Houthi fighters – who belong to the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam – as Iranian proxies and have accused Tehran of militarily backing them, a charge Iran vehemently denies.
(7) Vanna Mendaleni is a middle aged Greek woman who until now has not had vehement feelings about the crisis that has engulfed her country.
(8) Hamas vehemently denies the legitimacy of Israel but its leaders have stated repeatedly that if Fatah negotiates with Israel a two-state peace deal based on the 1967 borders, and if this outcome is approved in a national referendum, it would respect it as the choice of the Palestinian people.
(9) At the time Putin vehemently denied the men were Russian soldiers,but he later admitted they were.
(10) Well, it would be taken more seriously if this newspaper had not been so vehemently committed itself to getting rid of Tony Blair and to putting Gordon Brown in his place.
(11) Kadyrov has vehemently denied any involvement with the killings, issuing a statement this month saying that "ideologists of terrorism" had unleashed "a massive information war against the Chechen Republic and its leadership".
(12) Cost-benefit analysis--applying economic reasoning to increasingly complex health policy decisions--continues to be a source of vehement disagreement among its practitioners.
(13) How tolerant an approach will he take to parliamentary colleagues who vehemently disagree with him?
(14) In a statement, a spokesperson said that the Obama emphasised that the US “remains steadfast in [its] commitment to the security of Israel .” Netanyahu told Obama that Israel “vehemently opposes” the framework deal .
(15) Modi was accused of condoning the violence and even encouraging it – allegations he has vehemently denied.
(16) The prospect of Somali pirates being brought to trial here, where they would undoubtedly apply for asylum, is one of the reasons ministers have vehemently refused to accept any cases.
(17) Lugovoi, a former KGB and FSB officer, vehemently denies involvement and has suggested he may have been set up with the polonium by British security services or others.
(18) The BBC vehemently denies suggestions that anyone in the corporation's hierarchy wanted the allegations made public.
(19) On domestic policy, Fiorina has long occupied a niche in the Republican field as perhaps the most vehement critic of the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, a role for which there is considerable competition.
(20) Saudi Arabia had been vehemently opposed to Aoun’s nomination, fearing he will consolidate Iran’s influence on the brittle state, which has remained vulnerable state since the end of its destructive civil war 25 years ago.
Zealous
Definition:
(a.) Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object.
(a.) Filled with religious zeal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
(2) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
(3) His allies charge the prime minister with cowardice for dispatching one of his most zealously reforming ministers.
(4) Abaaoud’s older sister, Yasmina, told the New York Times in January that neither of the brothers showed a zealous interest in religion before leaving for Syria.
(5) Asked about the plan, Baker said on Monday that "both sides of the coalition" wanted high streets to prosper and that he agreed that over-zealous action by traffic wardens could be a problem.
(6) Care must be taken to guard against the health worker being overly zealous in motivating and mobilizing potential voluntary sterilization contraception candidates.
(7) Colonel David Black of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment says soldiers need to operate without being worried about "over-zealous and remote officialdom".
(8) After a zealous assessment of respective anatomical merits, attention switched to flaws.
(9) Those who leave the left are often those who end up detesting it more: becoming a convert often means being more zealous than existing believers.
(10) Sutherland said the Co-op bank's bad loans were mostly accounted for by Britannia, with half of all its poorly performing retail loans and three quarters of its roughly £440m corporate bad debts blamed on over-zealous loan agreements sold by the building society.
(11) Miller, too, earned Trump’s praise and widespread scorn for his zealous defense of the president and for peddling a baseless claim about phantom illegal voting.
(12) Most attempts to humanize medicine have at best been temporary, barely touching the margins of medicine and sustained largely by their zealous advocates.
(13) Arteta had been introduced as an early substitute for Coquelin, who hurt his knee in a zealous tackle on Claudio Yacob.
(14) In that sense, zealous neoconservatism may not be the cleverest political option, and May's ideas may yet point the way ahead.
(15) It has been zealously guarded by the recipients of the letters themselves, and over the last few years, by the full might of the British state and government, as Whitehall has fought every step of the way to stop the Freedom of Information Act disclosure of the letters to Rob Evans of the Guardian.
(16) When finally open public welfare was translated into reality during 1918-1933 as a result of the zealous efforts on the part of the reformatory psychiatrists, this was mainly done to save cost, whereas Kolb's original aims were largely lost in the process.
(17) Then, one evening, her zealous son accused her of tacitly criticising Mao.
(18) They are in the firing line if they do not endorse a zealous world view.
(19) They are beaten up and raped daily and it's not because they feel bad about themselves or have been got at by some zealous politically correct propaganda.
(20) Behind him lies the zealous, over-confident Dominic Cummings, his special adviser at education – forced out – humiliated at the Treasury select committee when his version of reality collided with its clever Tory chairman, Andrew Tyrie.