The women are a forceful presence in class and can be spotted on breaks engaging in fierce arm-wrestling matches.
Tribal loyalties are fierce, arms flow freely, army units are fractured and cattle-raiding is rampant.
The Soviet Union was also weak after World War II, "but it recovered and challenged the United States in a fierce arms race," he said.
I used to love Peshawar, where fierce arms merchants served sweet tea and the lone U.S. diplomat locked his consulate with a simple Schlage key before our late-night rambles in the teeming streets.
Moscow and Washington engaged in a fierce arms race until the last Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, conceded in the late 1980s that the nuclear buildup was bankrupting his country.
And what is the evidence that it is the focus of a fierce arms race between host and pathogen?
After over 14 hours of debate and fierce legislative arm-twisting, the Senate voted 33 to 27 to approve the bill.
I'll certainly take that as a compliment!' She is tiny and androgynous, with a thin, hard body, fierce eyebrows, muscled arms, calloused hands.
Senator Inouye, who lost his right arm in fierce fighting in Italy, said he and his former comrades had been modest about finally receiving the medal.
Neka French, the girl with the nunchuck arms, is fierce.
He was short, stocky, black-haired, fierce-eyed, with one arm longer than the other, his swarthy face scarred by smallpox contracted in infancy.
