Sentence examples for face of ferocious from inspiring English sources

Instead, Cutler reacted the way scouting reports said he would in the face of ferocious pressure: he wilted.

Louise Day Hicks, who, as the chairwoman of the Boston School Committee from largely white South Boston, became the face of ferocious opposition to busing, died in 2003.

This is, of course, complete garbage – 99% of our businesses have nothing to do with government at all and have been built in the face of ferocious competition.

He did this in the face of ferocious opposition from the conservative Popular Party, and indeed within his own Spanish Socialist Workers Partyy.

A picture of the Dwarf Dancer (La Nana) combines the colour of Lautrec with a dwarf  figure from Velázquez – but then has a face of ferocious defiance that is  entirely Picasso's.

In the face of ferocious political attack, Jersey is for the first time opening an office in London and frantically building lobbying contacts in Washington in an effort to repair relations.

Instead they fumbled and crumbled in the face of some ferocious Warrington tackling.

But in the face of the ferocious Bilbao pressing is forced to turn around and pass the ball all the way back to De Gea.

BEIRUT, Lebanon Syriaia's uprising has become more violent in the country's most restive regions, in what may signal the start of a protracted armed struggle after six months of largely peaceful protests in the face of a ferocious government crackdown, diplomats, activists and officials say.

The French finance minister argues that a hostile government and hostile stakeholders can ultimately scupper a deal citing the example of the bid by CNOOC, a Chinese firm, for Unocal, an American oil company; an offer that was ultimately withdrawn by CNOOC itself, in the face of a ferocious political backlash in the United States.

A newsreader said the test was carried out "in the face of the ferocious, hostile acts of the US", with "great explosive power".