Sentence examples for fierce position from inspiring English sources

Their hard line frustrated many in Munich however, where a twitter hashtag punning on the festival name and the government's fierce position began circulating – #Oktoberfestung (October fortress).

The fierce tactical positioning of candidates here and elsewhere — some call it pandering and waffling — is producing a convergence of sorts around the idea that more is better, that an expansion of energy production from all sources and places will somehow fix things, lower prices and restore stability to the economy.

And for the cable industry, as well as the media and telecommunications bankers who specialize in the industry, there has been a fierce jockeying for position ever since.

Waltrip, the defending Daytona 500 champion, took the lead for good on the seventh lap in the second race -- which included an eight-car wreck and fiercer jostling for position than the first race.

Only that competition is fierce for the positions that do crop up and as we have seen, wedding experience is practically a prerequisite if you are to land such a coveted job.

Over the last decade, it has become evident that the competition for quality positions after postdoctoral training is fierce, especially for academic positions, and that there are more interested fellows than positions.

When he took his set position, a fierce gust of wind blasted the 165-pound Miller, causing a slight wobble.

Schumacher, who went into the race nine points ahead of Raikkonen, later had a collision with his brother Ralf, in a Williams, after a fierce scrap for track position.

"Give us an organization of revolutionaries," Lenin exclaimed, "and we will overturn Russia!" Lenin spared no effort to build just this kind of party over the next 20 years, despite fierce attacks on his position by some of his closest comrades of the Iskra days, Plekhanov, Martov, and Leon Trotsky.

With competition so fierce for every open position these days, even the smallest edge can make the difference in landing you that interview or even a job.

Breymann was killed in the fierce action, and his position was taken.