Sentence examples for ferocious for the from inspiring English sources

The crazed cadenza was all the more ferocious for the ping and clarity of Mr. Lang's playing.

Shares in Amazon.com sank nearly 17% Thursday, after the company reported a sharp jump in fourth-quarter earnings but still fell short of Wall Street expectations, amid what analysts say is a market that is becoming increasingly ferocious for the Internet retailing giant.

Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan of Queens is a ferocious advocate for the city's schools.

Perhaps three terraces were always impossible with a C$103.4m budget, but Canadians have a ferocious enthusiasm for the outdoors under all conditions and especially in the summer.

Irish nostalgia has often been interwoven with a ferocious hunger for the modern, and one name for modernity in Ireland is America.

Sasha Stone, who blogs at Awards Daily (awardsdaily.com) and has been a ferocious advocate for "The Dark Knight," said she thinks the noncampaign campaign has been effective.

It is usually adjacent to that of Seve Ballesteros, with whom he shared a ferocious appetite for the contest and a burning enmity.

I met both of them again in Aleppo a week later, with the regime and the revolutionaries locked in a ferocious struggle for the control of Syria's largest city.

It was then that 28,000 men lost their lives in the Battle of Towton, the most ferocious battle for the crown between the Houses of York and Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses.

Broad shouldered, Gonzalez is a master at applying to football the craft of blocking out a defender that he honed as a ferocious rebounder for the University of California basketball team.

We were on the same side in the ferocious struggle for the soul of the Labour party in the late 1970s, and later served together as ministers in Tony Blair's government.