Sentence examples for ferocious combat from inspiring English sources

Over days of ferocious combat, soldiers and militiamen fought house-to-house, and sometimes hand-to-hand, through the medieval labyrinth, home to 30,000 Palestinians.

Over five days of ferocious combat, soldiers and militiamen fought house-to-house, and sometimes hand-to-hand, through the medieval labyrinth that is home to 30,000 Palestinians.

David Lodge's Author, Author was locked in ferocious combat with Colm Tóibín's The Master, while the maestro also cropped up in Alan Hollinghurst's Booker prize-winning The Line of Beauty.

Three weeks of ferocious combat between Mr. Sadr's supporters and American troops in Najaf ended last week when Mr. Sadr agreed that his fighters would leave that holy city.

As Snyder demonstrates, the Nazis and the Soviets may have been trying to destroy each other in the ferocious combat of 1941 to 1945, but, if one looks at the entire thirteen-year period that he describes, the two totalitarian powers occasionally acted in a kind of weird concert, in which each side emboldened or even enabled the other.

A series of satellite images analyzed by the human rights group Amnesty International and the American Association for the Advancement of Science graphically illustrate the devastation wrought upon Aleppo, Syria's largest city, by months of ferocious combat between the government of President Bashar al-Assad and his rebel opponents.

So when Jack became president and appointed his ferocious brother attorney general, combat was unavoidable.

I am talking about the ways in which we are choosing to combat the ferocious cold with fashion.

Ferocious hand-to-hand combat, stunning scenery and Daniel Day-Lewis tearing through the forest, bare-chested like a force of nature.

Another tale narrates that Vishnu assumed the form of the ferocious Gandaberunda bird-animal to combat Sharabha.

The refutation of the Sharabha legend along with ten other Shaivite legends is discussed in a text by Vijayindra Tirtha called Shaivasarvasvakhandanam. Some regional South-Indian scriptures narrate that Narasimha took the form of Gandaberunda (literally "the mighty two-headed"), a more ferocious two-headed bird-animal, who combats and destroys Shiva-Sharabha.