This strategy has proved successful, and subsequent Ryder Cup matches have been fiercely contended, with both teams exhibiting excellent play.
Cuts have diminished council planning departments to the point that, sometimes, only controversial or fiercely contended applications are truly scrutinised.
Such a description leaves hardly any doubt that in 15th-century Scotland the term golf primarily referred to a fiercely contended team game, and this accounts for its being banned in the acts of Parliament quoted above.
Enterprises in the cluster compete fiercely.
They would compete fiercely.
But Mr. Giuliani's advisers fiercely contend he is the true fiscal conservative in the race.
As president, Mr. Bush's father had to contend with the fiercely partisan George J. Mitchell, the Senate leader, and a Democratic-led Congress in no mood to be courted.
Others -- including her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and her siblings -- contend that she fiercely wants to live -- and that even if she did not, life in any form is worth holding onto.
