Sentence examples for fairly fierce from inspiring English sources

Predictably, a wife and mother isn't allowed to hide in plain sight without meeting some fairly fierce opposition.

England can be certain that De Villiers will be a much more vocal presence than the studious Amla, whose style was not to everyone's liking in a country where many sportsmen tend to be fairly fierce characters.

After schooling at Fettes, then a fairly fierce beating establishment which may have stirred early rebelliousness, he went not to university, but into publishing at 17, after impressing the British head of Putnam & Co, met by chance at a funeral.

In these activities, the stretching exercises are fairly fierce, and are of the ballistic type (ie exactly of the type we are told to avoid by the stretching gurus, who favour prolonged, quasi-static stretches), and well out of the reach of us mere mortals.

The crowds are powerful and their enthusiasm can be fairly described as fierce.

[n3] The upshot of these controversies, often long and fierce, is fairly summarized by saying that long before the Fourteenth Amendment subjected the States to new limitations, the prohibition of furtherance by the State of religious instruction became the guiding principle, in law and feeling, of the American people.

In the case of the father and former president, the answer arguably is fairly straightforward: ambition and a fierce sense of competition.

I'd been reading John Ruskin's book Modern Painters, and was inspired by this fierce Victorian critic to use a fairly extreme image.

While the world fairly soon looked elsewhere, they were still in shock, and fierce recrimination, this week.

"The fierce storm that was predicted will now be a fairly modest storm; at least that is what is now predicted," Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said in a briefing at the city's emergency command center.

Flandez called the Troubletones "fine, fierce and fabulous", though Chaney wrote that the rendition was "a fairly routine take".