Abdul Haq was 43, fierce, funny, bitter and in recent months increasingly convinced that he could help save Afghanistan.
The fighting here has grown fierce and bitter, packed with bickering and endless advertisements and the lobbing of outraged news releases back and forth.
A fierce and bitter war -- not bloody like the war in Iraq, but a war just the same -- is being waged against American workers.
What he finds is a monastery rife with fierce rivalries, bitter memories and a deadly secret which keeps drawing him back to the library and its hidden collection of forbidden books.
It was only on reading Dinesh's novel that I learned that they had eaten not in silence but amid fierce and bitter whispers, in which each blamed the other for what had happened.
He clearly fears hackers, surveillance, and blackmail, but the talk soon ramps up into a fierce and bitter argument in which she reproaches him for his long work hours and his remote behavior at home, and he says that his misery is part of the adult responsibility that comes with the well-paying job that pays for her leisure.
He fought a fierce and bitter takeover battle to get control of Distillers, using tactics that would later land him in jail for one of the most notorious cases of insider trading of the 1980s.
Here, small, waxy-leaved plants are adapted to the fierce drying winds, bitter cold and intense UV-rich sunlight.
Third in line is the sisters' mother, Vivien (a fierce Karen Young), a bitter, clenched Mrs. Robinson type with whom Jeff has an ambiguous encounter.
It had been a fierce fight – sometimes bitter – that had become so close the bookmakers switched the favourites with just one day to go.
