Sentence examples for fierce division from inspiring English sources

Not all that long ago, Seattle and Oakland were fierce division rivals with star-studded lineups.

Sharpe spent 10 years with the Denver Broncos, the Raiders' fierce division rival.

But General Growth's board's sluggish response is said to reflect a fierce division between two directors, each of whom controls roughly a quarter of the firm's shares.

In order to accomplish that and to keep their playoff hopes alive, the Giants need to beat the Eagles, their fierce division rivals.

The Steelers could face their fierce division rival, the Baltimore Ravens in Week 4, without quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who is likely to be suspended for his actions with a 20-year-old college student in Georgia.

Now Mr. Clinton arrives in the midst of a fierce division within the Vietnamese government over whether the prospect of reversing a huge decline in foreign investment by opening up the country is worth the threat to the Communists' rule.

OPEC meetings have often been contentious, daylong affairs with fierce divisions between rivals like Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Those fierce divisions about how the coup was planned, and how the government should respond, have strained Turkey's relationships with western nations.

Fierce divisions have broken out among the Guardian books team as to whether this video, bringing a statue of Jane Austen to life, is delightful or naff.

Meanwhile, the Sunni community's militias were challenged by militias organized by Islamic fundamentalist groups, and the Shīʿite community experienced fierce divisions between the more clerical Hezbollah in the south and the more secular Amal ("Hope," also an acronym for Afwāj al-Muqāwamah al-Lubnāniyyah [Lebanese Resistance Detachments]) movement led by Nabbih Berri.

There's also something medieval in the fierce class divisions of 1930s Spain, with its great latifundistas, whose estates were worked by landless peasants so hungry they stole acorns from pigs' troughs.