Sentence examples for a fierce community from inspiring English sources

Bonner retains a fierce community pride, but its once bustling character has been replaced by a forlorn air, a near-ghost town where the last few loads of logs outnumbered the few mill workers who remained when the plant shut down last month.

Sometimes, opposition comes when it is least expected: Eric N. Gioia, a Queens councilman, encountered fierce community opposition to renaming a street for an advocate for Irish immigrants who died while serving in Iraq.

In New Rochelle, where the furniture giant Ikea threatened to uproot a residential neighborhood but backed off after fierce community opposition in 2001, another eminent domain situation has turned nasty.

Dr. Brashear's plan eventually collapsed under fierce community opposition and the recent economic downturn.

While power plants generally run into fierce community opposition, the reception today was guardedly approving.

Wal-Mart, an inescapable part of the retail landscape just about everywhere except in New York City, twice retreated on efforts to open stores in the city after fierce community opposition.

Despite fierce community opposition, the village eventually allowed the project to go forward, and the sales office is expected to open soon.

But it has used a fierce sense of community to market itself as a safe and stable alternative to the suburbs.

These numbers might easily qualify this street for the title of most dangerous in Britain, but this would seem to be rough justice for an area that has a fierce and loyal community spirit coursing through its veins.

Life on board ship is dramatized by a flogging, a suicide, a scientist's disappointment at not being able to study wildlife as he'd hoped, the sewing up of body bags after a battle and a fierce sense of community.

"She has been a fierce advocate for her community of Borroloola and will bring that same passion to representing the Northern Territory in the federal parliament".