Sentence examples for fierce enmity from inspiring English sources

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They know the harsh judgment imposed by natural forces; they swear close allegiance and fierce enmity.

Some legal experts fear that this could provoke a constitutional crisis, given Mrs. Kumaratunga's fierce enmity toward the opposition.

"For centuries, there's been fierce enmity between Whitby and Scarborough, originally fishing and shipping rivalries, now focused against Scarborough council which local folk feel is always 'doing Whitby down'".

There is a sense of poetry, too, in her suggestion that the lives of Americans on both sides of the Civil War were so deeply intertwined that, despite their differences and sometimes fierce enmity, the country and its people share a united destiny: unseen filaments tie together all the lives of the characters.

Much was made, for example, of the fact that astronomers Fred Hoyle and Martin Ryle were rivals – the former believing in the steady state theory of the universe, the latter believing in the big bang – but gave us no sense of whether this was an unusually fierce enmity (in which case we should have heard why – was it aggravated by their class differences, for example?

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Tells about their reckless, violent enmity.

How fierce?

Both men are keenly aware of the value of headlines, but this is not pantomime enmity: it's born of fierce competition – and it's personal.

I recommend an approach of cordial enmity.

Mr. Reston's fierce prose has often earned the paper the enmity of real estate developers, as well as a chorus of small-business owners.

The fierce rivalry between Pendleton and Meares, which has sometimes resembled enmity, has also been like nothing else in track cycling.

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