These ferocious machines fight in large Plexiglas boxes, ramming into each other at high speeds, trying to disable their opponents by flipping them over; the tournaments are like geek cockfights.
Riding through them felt like being trapped in a ferocious washing machine, but in reality they remained tame by white-water standards.
In Brega, after forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi ceded their presence in a residential quarter of the town, a rebel attack in the evening against loyalists at a university campus and oil infrastructure was met by ferocious heavy machine gun fire and an artillery or mortar barrage.
All the while, big business was mobilizing, banding together to form massive advocacy groups such as the Business Roundtable and shaping the staid U.S. Chamber of Commerce into a ferocious lobbying machine.
Wolverines are ferocious killing machines, yes, but there's also some evidence that their hissy fits are just for show - a demonic display performed not as a precursor to a good lashing, but simply to scare away the threat, be it a bigger predator or a human.
The Longhorns have everything from a Heisman-caliber quarterback (Colt McCoy) to an experienced and mammoth offensive line to a ferocious quarterback-sacking machine (Sergio Kindle).
He hated tennis from kindergarten age, having been placed on a backyard court, the prison, to face a ferocious ball-serving machine, the dragon, by a domineering father who would punch out strangers with his boxer's fists or point an illegal pistol at motorists.
Brandon: 1. Ferocious Furry Death Machine: 0. Now, I know, I could have done better than a "your mom" joke, but I was not prepared to appropriately zing the lion.
The backlash against the freedom machine was swift and ferocious.
It landed like a spotlight on a boulder of masa being mixed by a giant machine that put out a ferocious, conversation-impeding roar.
But the thing their fans are expecting to see at Twickenham tomorrow is that rare beast that only the All Blacks can consistently become: An utterly ferocious monster with the precision and focus of a machine.
