Sentence examples for ferocious wars from inspiring English sources

Mercia was one of Britain's largest and most aggressive kingdoms, stretching from the Humber to London, its kings and chieftains mounting short but ferocious wars against all their neighbours, and against one another: primogeniture had to wait for the Normans, so it was rare for a king to reign unchallenged and die in his bed.

But the paper pressed hard for me to accept the posting, and I complied, covering the continent again for four-and-a-half years – during which the biggest stories were the ferocious wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and especially Zaire (now Congo).

Italy waged a ferocious war in Ethiopia where Burri arrived on Nov. 9, 1935.

"The US health-care system is in the midst of a ferocious war.

Egypt faces a "ferocious war against terrorism and extremism", Sisi said last year.

These have been soaring, especially in India, where a ferocious war for talent has driven up wages and led to very high staff-turnover rates.

Responsible for the conduct of an increasingly ferocious war, he would not countenance taking life if no good would be served.

Its seemingly limitless ability to produce the military hardware necessary to fight — and win — its ferocious war with Nazi Germany was a testament to its success.

One EU source described the discussions as polite and with no recriminations, a sharp change in tone following a ferocious war of words between Hungary and Luxembourg over asylum seekers.

"We are engaged in a ferocious war against terrorism to protect lives and property, defend the republican regime … the civil state and its institutions," prime minister Habib Essid told parliament.

Not the war in Iraq, but a related and ferocious war he is waging at home against Britain's state-financed broadcaster, the BBC.Within hours of Mr Blair's speech, one of the government's leading authorities on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was found dead.