Bidding on the car began — fierce at first, and then tapering off to a final offer of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, considerably short of Ramirez's goal.
June Criticised by the Public Accounts Committee, the BBC starts to implement a 25% cut to star pay as both the DG and the BBC Trust begin fierce opposition to any form of sharing the licence fee.
And in the view of troops here who fought intensely in the weeks before the offensive began, fierce battles probably lie ahead if they are to clear the Taliban from sanctuaries so far untouched.
Democratic candidates in this year's elections and their backers, including the Senate Majority PAC, have begun fierce attacks directly aimed at the publicity-shy brothers in recent weeks, portraying them as un-American villains whose massive spending is ruining the political process.
On 24 December, the AAE's ice-strengthened vessel was just departing the Commonwealth Bay area in remote East Antarctica when fierce winds began tearing off the polar plateau.
The wordless encounter between Valentyne and Orson, for instance, which begins in fierce battle but is transformed by the hero's willingness to trust the homeless creature, goes on too long.
They began a fierce campaign.
So the battle began with fierce strife coming out of the Cabinet & the Labour Party.
So began the fierce battle for Rome, the subject of Robert Katz's gripping new book.
She began a fierce campaign to reclaim Growing and have it destroyed.
