Sentence examples for ferocious fight from inspiring English sources

In a brief but ferocious fight the Confederates overwhelmed the federals at Devil's Den.

Not even, McConnell notes, during the ferocious fight over the nomination of now- ­Justice Clarence Thomas.

Ms. Raddatz wasn't there; she learned about this ferocious fight months after it happened.

After playing on Republican turf all year, the president has captured the public high ground in the ferocious fight over the debt and deficits.

Witnesses in Cocody saw French tanks join the Ouattara forces who had encircled Mr Gbagbo's residence and the sounds of a ferocious fight echoed around the lagoon.

Nine years later, the Taliban are putting up a ferocious fight against the United States in Afghanistan, and are providing shelter to Al Qaeda in the tribal areas.

But though he had been inspired by his passengers' ferocious fights to get back to the boat, their will to live, he struggled with the burden of having put them to the test.

Closing Korangal Outpost in Kunar Province, a powerful symbol of some of the Afghan war's most ferocious fights, and a potential harbinger of America's retreat, is a tacit admission that putting the base there in the first place was a costly mistake.

But blessedly, Ms. Ivey knows how to accentuate Amanda's absurdity gently without making her a figure of pitiable fun; amusing as her obsessive nagging can be, there is nothing ludicrous about this Amanda, and her ferocious fights with Tom have a hard truth in them.

But Broadcom's biggest rivals have a similar wireless obsession, and this is shaping up as one of the most ferocious fights in the history of the chip industry.

They would fight from time to time -- gigantic, ferocious fights that would define blood feuds for a generation.