Last week, the Turkish Parliament rushed through equally fierce legislation designed to steer the next generation away from the perils of drink.
Yet within the City Ballet's tradition of Neo-Classical plotless ballets, this is one with a robust difference: images abound, and there is a fierce sense of design on all levels.
In the nearly three years since he won a fierce competition to design the memorial for the Irish famine of the 19th century, Mr. Tolle has dealt with politicians, chief executives, boardroom meetings and construction delays after 9/11.
There may be a second, secret Man Ray, a fierce fashion pit designed to humiliate people like me.
Fierce contemporary dance, sharp design, top tunes: Clark's shows may be uncompromising, but they're never penitential.
His design drew fierce public criticism, major changes were called for, costs spiralled, and then finally the scheme was shelved in 2004.
The claustrophobic design and fierce sexuality evoke the movie "Alien," and there are even more echoes of "Dark Star," the early 1970s low-budget, existential bearded-slackers-in-space film that was the debut of John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon (who wrote the screenplay for "Alien").
Some current and former employees describe a stultifying world of 14-hour strategy sessions, endless business reviews and a preoccupation with PowerPoint slides; of laborious job evaluations, hundreds of e-mails a day and infighting among divisions so fierce that it hobbles design and delays product releases.
As a whole, this complexity forces fierce prioritisations on the design of a study of transitional care of the elderly.
The race to find the best mid-mod design has become fierce.
