Sentence examples for continued fierce from inspiring English sources

As a result of this, and continued fierce fighting, the medical response and relief effort were slow getting under way and woefully under-resourced.

Despite continued, fierce opposition from finance experts and transit advocates, officials here say the Legislature will approve the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $17 billion capital plan, perhaps as early as this week.

Today's lead editorial takes the deficit-reduction supercommittee to task, scolding the Republicans for their continued fierce obstructionism, and the Democrats for being too accommodating.

MI5 was concerned about her continuing fierce opposition to colonialism, the files, released at the National Archives on Friday, make clear.

Drifts are still blocking roads in hilly areas, with continuing fierce cold and occasional snow flurries doing nothing to ease the situation.

On the periphery of the Gaza Strip, Israel withdrew more ground troops and repositioned others, even while continuing fierce bombardment of what it described as militant targets — more than 100 strikes in the 24 hours ending Sunday morning.

Yet it continues, fiercer than ever.

That certainly proved true Friday and Saturday, when the United States and Europe continued their fierce, mostly civil, but intense battle for a 17-inch gold trophy.

Analysts also focused on a 12.3 percent increase in selling, general and administrative costs, adding pressure to margins as Best Buy continued a fierce price war against larger retailers like Wal-Mart and Amazon.com.

Behind the scenes, the Nationalists and allied opposition parties continued their fierce drive to weaken the president, who is vulnerable because he was elected last spring with only 39percentt of the vote.

Iraqi forces have appeared to gain momentum in recent days and continued a fierce counterattack Friday in the predominantly Sunni Arab city of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, which insurgents seized June 11.