Sentence examples for combined fierce from inspiring English sources

The children of fathers with East European origins, Mr. Bacanovic and Ms. Stewart, 65, combined fierce professional ambition with a keen appreciation for the rewards that high society can confer.

The audience will hear about half of Pound's forty-five-minute score on Monday, including "Frères Humains"—more than enough to appreciate the poet's artistic character, which combined fierce modernity with a Pre-Raphaelite yearning for pure beauty.

He mounted a counteroffensive that combined fierce attacks, political negotiations and the quick infusion of reconstruction money to damaged neighborhoods to knock back the Shiite militias and offset their influence.

Still, he stuck around, and managed a series of comebacks, mainly because, by combining fierce provocations with quirky digressions, he made himself much more interesting to listen to than any of his rivals.

Would the opera work so well without a Protector as adept at portraying cruel, complex characters as baritone Christopher Purves, or a soprano combining fierce presence with such pure tone as Barbara Hannigan, or a countertenor Boy sounding as beguiling and other-worldly as Bejun Mehta?

Severe economic tensions combined with fierce parliamentary opposition will likely destabilize the current government in the medium run".

This, combined with fierce competition as luxury brands race to beef up their presence, makes compelling in-store displays and top-quality service all the more important.

Thompson provides a vivid example of the way in which a decadent manner could, paradoxically, be combined with fierce religious enthusiasm.

"The depth of government involvement in foreign health systems, combined with fierce industry competition and the closed nature of many public formularies, creates, in our view, a significant risk that corrupt payments will infect the process".

A poor country boy from the hills of southeastern Oklahoma and a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, Carl Albert combined a fierce competitiveness and tireless energy with a quietly persuasive manner in climbing the House leadership ladder.

That was due to heavy-handed police and army tactics combined with fierce resistance by thousands of young settlers, hardened by their experiences in the summer and contemptuous of the moderating influence of older settler leaders whom they blame for the failure to prevent the Gaza pullout.For now, Mr Olmert has weathered this challenge well too.