Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by Chinese all over the world.
Defenders of the programmes counter that in a fiercely competitive global economy, some small island nations have few other ways to raise government revenue, attract private sector investment, and cope with the consequences of climate change.
F. Kathleen Foley rounds up what's happening on L.A.'s small stages, including a "fiercely slice-of-life" look at the lives of girls.
As an indicator of how controversial this is for lawyers, the Law Society, the solicitors' representative body, only agreed last month that its regulatory arm, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, would become a licensing authority for ABSs, following a fiercely argued debate in which the smaller firms threatened a last minute, two-fingers to the reform.
They built a house, a fiercely modernist lump of architecture, all brick-faced, small-windowed severity on a hillock.
On Friday, the American ambassador to France, Charles Rivkin, held a small ceremony in his garden with President Nicolas Sarkozy, who delivered a fiercely pro-American speech.
And he also had a fiercely independent turn of mind.
For all her rebellion, Arnold was a fiercely curious teenager.
We are also a fiercely independent group.
It is a fiercely competitive end, too.
45 Years is a fiercely disturbing film.
