Sentence examples for ferocious challenges from inspiring English sources

She plans to finish with sequences about Mr. Lomborg's personal story, which has involved ferocious challenges to his academic work as a statistician in Denmark and his writings in books like "The Skeptical Environmentalist," as well as validation by the likes of Time magazine, which named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

P14 Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut beat back a ferocious challenge by his Democratic opponent.

There would always be a ferocious challenge to finish among the top three at the United States championships to qualify for the world championships or the Olympics.

It was symbolic of Deeney's attitude that he reacted in such a no-nonsense way to a ferocious challenge from Gabriel with feet off the ground.

They expect roughly half of those 20,000 to travel to the Madejski, where they face a ferocious challenge from Narbonne, whose season has been an uncanny mirror of Harlequins'.

50 mins: A cheeky crossfield kick from Lavea finds Cueto at the top of his defensive game, slamming into Nacewa with a ferocious challenge, saving a try and bringing the medics on for the Auckland star.

Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut beat back a ferocious challenge yesterday by his Democratic opponent after one of the most bitter and closely watched Congressional campaigns in the New York City region.

A "friend" (the book is peppered with them, popping up to reinforce the author's points with homespun observations indistinguishable in tone from her own) writes to Werner Herzog about his film-making problems, and received a "reply of ferocious challenge", which she then gives in precis: "Quit your complaining.

"We've got one ferocious challenge coming down to the Stoop next week [against Leicester] but I think the crowd will know that we're back".

In the 1998 and 2000 elections, he defied the New Jersey Republican establishment and ran ferocious primary challenges against Representative Marge Roukema, a centrist Republican and an elder stateswoman within the delegation.

What is undisputed is that the Democrats will mount a ferocious legal challenge if the ballot initiative passes — "maybe even before it has a chance to pass," a Democratic source said yesterday — thus opening the door to an ugly constitutional fight reminiscent of Bush v. Gore in 2000.