(He has a special tennis racquet, which he wraps around his right hand, and is considered a fierce competitor).
While he was considered a fierce advocate of his mayor, Mr. Lhota also had a reputation for being an independent thinker who, one observer said, did not blindly take the party line.
But on a second level, General Hagenbeck was expressing the view, widely held in Washington, that it is up to Pakistan to move more aggressively against the Qaeda forces, which are considered particularly fierce and well disciplined.
Many of the Democrats who loudly lamented the loss of Senator Paul Wellstone in a plane crash had for years considered his fierce commitment to principle to be, at best, a little weird.
The Giuliani administration has consistently argued that ferrets -- small cousins of weasels, minks and skunks -- are dangerous and rightfully included in the ranks of animals considered "wild, ferocious, fierce, dangerous or naturally inclined to do harm" by the New York City health code.
Referring to his dismissal, he said, "I don't think most journalists or the public would consider that fierce protection".
Considering the fierce debate over what to do about climate change, this does not seem like that much money at all.
In the latest issue of The Atlantic, Peter Beinart, citing a series of incidents in Portland, Oregon, writes, "The people preventing Republicans from safely assembling on the streets of Portland may consider themselves fierce opponents of the authoritarianism growing on the American right.
Granted, such a draconian measure sounds implausible, especially considering the fierce pro-gun lobby that pulls together at times like these, barricading itself behind defensive and inflammatory rhetoric.
