Sentence examples for fierce community from inspiring English sources

Dr. Brashear's plan eventually collapsed under fierce community opposition and the recent economic downturn.

While power plants generally run into fierce community opposition, the reception today was guardedly approving.

Despite fierce community opposition, the village eventually allowed the project to go forward, and the sales office is expected to open soon.

Wal-Mart, an inescapable part of the retail landscape just about everywhere except in New York City, twice retreated on efforts to open stores in the city after fierce community opposition.

In New Rochelle, where the furniture giant Ikea threatened to uproot a residential neighborhood but backed off after fierce community opposition in 2001, another eminent domain situation has turned nasty.

Sometimes, opposition comes when it is least expected: Eric N. Gioia, a Queens councilman, encountered fierce community opposition to renaming a street for an advocate for Irish immigrants who died while serving in Iraq.

But it has used a fierce sense of community to market itself as a safe and stable alternative to the suburbs.

But the marchers at the Saturday rally, many armed with guns, clubs and bats, met fierce opposition from community members and anti-fascist protesters.

These numbers might easily qualify this street for the title of most dangerous in Britain, but this would seem to be rough justice for an area that has a fierce and loyal community spirit coursing through its veins.

But the deal also drew fierce opposition from community and consumer groups critical of Associates' lending practices in the so-called subprime market -- for higher-rate loans made to borrowers with tarnished credit histories.

In seeking a site for the plant, the city had faced fierce opposition from community groups in the Bronx worried about the disruption from years of construction, but was under a Federal court order to choose a site by yesterday.