The impact of a joint demonstration by supporters known for their fierce animosity towards each other would be bound to generate fresh headlines around the world.
Tea Party supporters' fierce animosity toward Washington, and the president in particular, is rooted in deep pessimism about the direction of the country and the conviction that the policies of the Obama administration are disproportionately directed at helping the poor rather than the middle class or the rich.
When you have two countries with such fierce animosity towards each other that they are hyper-competitive even in leg-lifting, then what you have, my friend, is a recipe for fucking disaster.
On the other hand, everyone in Nigeria is familiar with the fierce animosities that exist between the various religious groups in Jos.
Economic growth is the most pressing problem for everyone today, and no matter how fierce your animosity toward the 1 percent, it is hard to see how reining them in more effectively right now will goose the gross domestic product (indeed, in many countries the rise of the 1 percent has coincided with strong economic growth).
The two women — Ms. Trierweiler is the current partner of President François Hollande of France, and Ms. Royal is his former partner and the mother of his four children — are depicted in three recently published books as fierce rivals, and their animosity has been at the center of extensive news media attention in France this summer.
Although the general voice of the people compelled him to acquiesce reluctantly to a second term in 1792 and his election that year was again unanimous, during his last four years in office he suffered from a fierce personal and partisan animosity.
If anything, today's Republican animosity towards Obama is even fiercer, as shown by the absurd controversy over his birth certificate, and whether this president is a US citizen at all.
No one is suggesting that the fierce policy disagreements will disappear or that old animosities will not remain just beneath the new, courteous veneer.
These companies once were fierce rivals suing one another in an atmosphere of great animosity just five or six years ago, but in 2014 something changed.
"Toward the end of the hearing, in another fierce exchange with a Republican lawmaker, Holder said that despite any personal animosity toward him, the office of attorney general deserved some respect.
