Sentence examples for a week of fierce from inspiring English sources

Chile had a week of fierce floods last June, midwinter there.

A week of fierce clashes near the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, which has been accused of supporting M23, now threatens to boil over into an open conflict between the two states.

Iranians are expected to turn out in big numbers on Friday for two major elections after a week of fierce campaigning between conservatives desperate to maintain their influence over the country's political landscape and their reformist rivals seeking a comeback.

The surprise announcement came a day after members his own party petitioned the speaker of the Parliament to begin impeachment proceedings against Mr. Chiluba, and it capped a week of fierce political dueling between the 58-year-old president and his fast-expanding roster of opponents.

Bush meets Blair in Washington The US president, George Bush, and the prime minister, Tony Blair, were today assessing the progress of the war in Iraq after a week of fierce combat, amid growing signs that the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, has dug in for a prolonged fight.

Coming off another week of fierce scrutiny, the Tigers predictably came out hard.

Ten years ago the deaths of 17-year-old Zyed and Bounna Traore, 15, while they were trying to escape from the police in a banlieue, unleashed three weeks of fierce rioting.

The FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Actt) Amendments Act, which Congress extended following weeks of fierce, impassioned a rushed single day of debate, allows federal agencies to listen to the phone calls and read the emails of American citizens' international communications (even that one day of debate, by the way, was hard won).

Instead he fell very far short and Argentina now faces more weeks of fierce campaigning before a 22 November run-off.

More than two weeks of fierce competition ended with an upbeat closing ceremony at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, featuring artistic displays, fireworks, K-pop performances and dignitaries' speeches.

Thousands of civilians waving white flags fled from heavy fighting in the east of the country as government forces captured a strategic town held by the separatist Tamil Tigers after weeks of fierce fighting.