Even the New York Times, no basher of unions, came out against the strike in Chicago.

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Bloggers have called Laurie Smith a gay basher and accused her of being abusive to her daughter.

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Along the way, of course, Harold went from DDP basher to DDP advocate.

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Conservative talk show host Bill O'Reilly--a frequent basher of rappers and hip-hop music--tops Pew's list, turning off 21% of respondents.

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Mr. Hill is neither a U.N. basher nor romantic about the institution.

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He even extends a wide stride over America's cultural divide, as a Baptist minister (and Darwin-basher) who also plays a mean bass guitar.

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One character spoils the good work, though - Don Cheadle plays the excruciatingly grating "cockney" explosives expert Basher, who has the most over-egged English accent since Daphne on Frasier.

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She was a revelation back then, a hard hitting, screeching, almost reckless ball-basher who did something unthinkable in her first Grand Slam final: She pummeled two-time defending Wimbledon champion Serena Williams.

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He made his name as a basher of burdensome bureaucracy, an issue on which Mr Tusk's government has made only slow progress: Poland is a mid-table laggard in the World Bank's index of business-friendliness.

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He was not a gringo-basher by nature.

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