Sentence examples for ferocious military from inspiring English sources

They installed a ferocious military regime.

Now all eyes are fixed on the Middle East, where Israel's response to Hamas's rockets, a ferocious military campaign, has already left a thousand Gazans dead.

Diamond money transformed Unita into a far more ferocious military organization than it had been while receiving support from either the C.I.A. or the South African government, which supported it until the end of white-minority apartheid rule.

A formidable sense of duty, ferocious patriotism, military acuity and political ingeniousness: the qualities that made de Gaulle the leader who, in the minds of the French, most shaped the second world war were in fact products of the first.

The best-known example was Fela Kuti of Nigeria, the main creator of the Afropop style in the 1970s and a ferocious opponent of military rule in his country.

First, they said, ferocious resistance to a military raid that began Tuesday had prompted the deadliest fighting in the area in two years, suggesting the presence of a top Qaeda leader.

At home the government has been badly bruised by ferocious disagreements with the military, which earlier in the year succeeded in forcing the closure of one of country's most popular private news channels, against the government's will.