Sentence examples for a fierce case from inspiring English sources

When I got it – it was like the Holy Grail," said Natalie, who was nursing a fierce case of sunburn sustained while pacing the quay.

It is also probable that the whimsy-allergic will acquire a fierce case of hives before the first act of this curious confection has concluded.

I recently had a fierce case of odd-man-out syndrome at the Broadway revival of "Lend Me a Tenor," Ken Ludwig's dunderheaded farce about an opera star's ill-fated trip to Cleveland.

A fierce clash of drums".

Easterly's book amounted to a fierce assault on the case for more aid.

And there is in any case a fierce debate over the data, especially in Texas, which President Bush has pointed to as proof that standards-based reform works.

The epitome came when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie offered a fierce — and in some cases inaccurate — condemnation of Clinton's actions as secretary of State.

Mr. Ellison, known as a fierce adversary, has used the case to attack Léo Apotheker, SAP's former chief executive and now chief executive of Hewlett-Packard.

That could turn out to be the case in a fierce fight between the mutual fund industry and top financial regulators.

The leniency the court gave the president in making recess appointments, despite its finding in the NLRB case, prompted a fierce dissent led by Justice Antonin Scalia, which argued for a far more narrow reading of the recess clause that would only have rendered it operative in exceptional circumstances.

This case prompted a fierce online debate between those who accused mainland visitors of lacking manners and abusing their maternity system on one hand, and, on the other, those who attacked the snobbish attitude of Hong Kongers and exploitation of mainlanders as factory fodder.