Sentence examples for fierce city from inspiring English sources

At the weekend, in Fenerbahce's 3-2 defeat by their fierce city rivals Besiktas, Van Persie was again a substitute.

The defending champion Glasgow Rangers moved to the top of the Scottish Premier League after their fierce city rival Celtic lost, 1-0, to visiting St. Johnstone.

The results, their first La Liga title since 1996 and an even less familiar occurrence (40 years in the making), a place in the 2014 UEFA Champions League final against their fierce city enemy, Real Madrid.

It was negotiated to a voluntary $2.25 charge and eventually dropped entirely because of fierce opposition, city officials said.

The outcry that greeted Pawtucket, R.I., over its plans to spend stimulus money on a playground with a skate park at a junior high school was so fierce that city officials soon scrapped the idea and decided to spend their stimulus money on road work instead.

After a fierce debate, city council in Medicine Hat, Alta., approved the purchase by a vote of five to four.

(Competition is fierce in the city's annual sand-castle building contest).

After fierce lobbying, the city agreed to leave all three open, but cut their financing.

News agency reports from Abidjan indicated that after a day and night of fierce fighting, the city was relatively calm on Sunday, with sporadic gunfire.

Though the fund has not sustained the flood of contributions, its ability to continue to attract donations at all demonstrates what Michael Schaffer, the newspaper's editor, called the "sense of real, fierce ownership" that City Paper's readers share.

The fact that Mr. Banks, a fierce opponent of city homeless policy for more than two decades, can describe himself as optimistic about collaboration speaks to the immense transformation that has taken place in recent weeks.