Sentence examples for a year of fierce from inspiring English sources

That first happened in 1976, a year of fierce competition between President Gerald R. Ford and former Gov. Ronald Reagan of California.

But revelations that Maximus and some of its subcontractors had close ties to members of the Giuliani administration led to more than a year of fierce battles.

The announcement was the culmination of a year of fierce battles involving the commission, the union's executive arm, and individual carmakers over how to meet a goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 120 grams a kilometer, or 192 grams a mile, by 2012.

The announcement, which made national headlines, followed a year of fierce anti-refugee fights by the state.

He took part in the D-Day invasion, saw almost a year of fierce combat and was one of the first soldiers to enter a sub camp of Dachau, experiences that led to a post traumatic stress disorder breakdown and continued to have a powerful impact on him.

Another study in Nature Geoscience said Antarctica's snowfall had been over-estimated by between 11 and 36.5 billion tonnes a year because of fierce winds blasting many regions.

After a year of online protests and fierce political battles between the D.C. taxi commission and popular smartphone sedan service, Uber, a new technology may bring the two factions together: UberTaxi.

These documents were made public after a court order capped years of fierce and costly legal resistance by Cardinal Mahony.

Dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein, famously nicknamed "Bid 'em up Bruce," died at the age of 61 in 2009, leaving his heirs a fortune wrought from years of fierce deal making.

The Senate action, coming after years of fierce lobbying and a recent blitz of the airwaves by environmentalists and industry, was a victory for President Bush, who endorsed the repository site in February.

A Russia-brokered ceasefire was signed in 1994 after six years of fierce fighting, which claimed the lives of an estimated 30,000 people.