Sentence examples for fierce army from inspiring English sources

Fierce army onslaughts finished off the brutal Tamil Tigers, but thousands of civilians were killed, injured or displaced in the process.

These dwellings, like all the Sicilian homes Maggio visits, are cleaned furiously and proudly by members of a fierce army of Sicilian housewives.

The fighting around Damascus came as antigovernment activists reported a renewal of fierce army shelling of Homs, the central city that has long been a trouble spot for Mr. Assad.

In the new movie, the Abu Dabi Louvre, having risen as if by the slave labor that built the Pyramids at Giza, is descended upon by a fierce army of fanatics and marauders, wantonly looting and burning the masterpieces rented out from their Parisian guardians, laying waste to the patrimony of France.

Why do fierce armies disappear in a week?

As far as they were concerned, the police were a fierce, faceless, occupying army, patrolling the hills and beaches and freeways and, with traumatic frequency, surprising necking couples and dope smokers by descending on them in helicopters with floorlights and loudspeakers.

"After the early 1980s, in particular, peasants began to join in fierce anger at army atrocities, seeking both protection and retribution through the insurgency," Manz notes.

Mr Dasuki may find it hard to apply his more emollient approach at a time when the fighting is growing fiercer and the army's heavy-handed tactics continue to encourage disgruntled youths to join or back the terrorists.The president is said also to have given the go-ahead for secret negotiations with factions of Boko Haram.

Tribal loyalties are fierce, arms flow freely, army units are fractured and cattle-raiding is rampant.

But the fierce opposition of the army and the secular elite to his candidacy would be a bad one.

Mr. Assad defended the army's fierce assaults on towns throughout the country, saying his Syrian opponents were carrying out "foreign designs," and as traitors, could be executed.