Sentence examples for because of a fierce from inspiring English sources

We were watching the fireworks, which had been postponed because of a fierce rainstorm the night before.

This was partly because of a fierce local resistance to change.

Earlier, RFE's correspondent at Samawah reported mortar fire against US troops by the Iraqi paramilitaries, who were able to approach American positions undetected because of a fierce dust storm.

Jamaica's six-per-cent drop in lionfish sightings is primarily because of a fierce, focussed campaign of the kind that Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is aiming for, beginning with the creation of the app and relaxing lionfish-harvesting regulations.

An antigovernment activist in Beirut said that the airport in Damascus, the capital, had been closed cut for two days as rebel fighters edged ever closer, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the airport was shut because of a fierce government counteroffensive.

That happened in large part, Sample concluded, because, in the face of a fierce, well-funded effort to oust them for making that ruling, the justices chose neither to raise money to defend themselves nor to campaign actively.

But in recent years, it has suffered setbacks because of military pressure and a fierce offensive by paramilitary forces financed by landowners.

In a 40-minute speech that invoked the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and the colonial settlers, Mr. Obama said he was running because of the "fierce urgency of now" at a defining moment in the country's history.

Last month, Peter Chou, HTC's chief executive, said the company would not return to the days when more than half of its revenue came from the United States, a market where it saw a big drop in business last year because of the fierce competition from the iPhone 4S.

Having lost Elvis Dumervil because of overly slow fax machines, and Von Miller (for six games) because of a suspension, the Broncos' fierce pass rush now falls to the 32-year-old Phillips.

Higher education (HE) is producing an ever increasing number of graduates and government policy in many countries is seeking to promote self/small business employment as a practical career option, not least because of the fierce competition for "large firm" jobs in the graduate labour market.