There's a fierce loyalty bordering on religious zealotry that connects college football fans, and like fiercely religious types, the principle requirement for participation is belief.
For many customers, a mere spoonful of their one and only product inspires devotion so fierce, it borders on fanatical.
Despite being on display, like objects, and partially exposed — like their ancestors on the auction block — they maintain a fierce privacy, bordered on all sides.
Also on Tuesday, Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a rocket into southern Israel and Israel carried out an airstrike, its first since a cease-fire that ended eight days of fierce cross-border fighting in November.
It was the first Israeli strike against a militant in Gaza, the Palestinian coastal enclave, since a cease-fire ended eight days of fierce cross-border fighting in November.
Babe says of her mother what might be said about most of the book's characters: "She lived with the daily assumption that something terrible would happen, an expectation so fierce it bordered on hope".
In response to rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel, apparently in support of the Palestinian prisoners, the Israeli military said it carried out an airstrike in Gaza late Tuesday night, its first since a cease-fire that ended eight days of fierce cross-border fighting in November.
The double irony here is that open data was heralded as a tool of enlightened civic dialog, and has been co-opted for fierce partisanship, bordering on public endangerment.
Yet because Mr. Paul is not Latino, because he campaigned on a fierce seal-the-border message, his entry into the debate seemed like a turning point.
Others reached for them too; Barack Obama quoted her in a New Year message to Iran.Despite the interrogations and the intimidation, despite the murder of her fellow writers, she never lost her patriotism, which was so fierce that it bordered on chauvinism.
