In the news pages, victim support groups were asking increasingly fierce questions about why the £10m winger was allowed to play for Sunderland after being arrested, earning £3m in the process, despite the club's chief executive, Margaret Byrne, having been fully briefed by police and shown 834 WhatsApp messages exchanged between Johnson and his 15-year-old victim.
He can stay on beyond that date, but if he chooses to leave, a successor is sure to face fierce confirmation questions in the Senate, where lawmakers are heavily divided on the new rules.
While he positively called Gaga's performances outrageous and "occasionally fierce", he questioned Gaga's authenticity, both on stage and in the pre-concert scenes.
After Edwards happily expanded on his attack on Clinton, Russert pursued Edwards with a fierce follow-up question: Russert: Do you stand behind the word 'double-talk'?
Competition is fierce and the questions will not be answered for several years.
As we embark on health reform, we are entering a debate that will inevitably fuel fierce antagonism over questions of public versus private coverage, how to contain health costs, and taxes.
At a rally here at American University, as two generations of Kennedys surrounded Mr. Obama on stage, and Caroline Kennedy and Representative Patrick J. Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island, offered their own endorsements, Mr. Kennedy offered a fierce rebuttal to questions that Mr. Obama's rivals had raised about his experience and readiness for the job.
The politics of this question are fierce.
That happened in April, right in the middle of yet another fierce debate over the question of what represented a living wage, and it was hailed by many as a visionary act of altruism – especially since Price cut his own $1 million salary to $70,000 to finance the move.
In truth the policy disagreements between the two campaigns remain polite compared with relentless bickering in the Republican primary, but the sight of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz emerging unscathed from recent squabbling has heightened the stakes for Democrats and prompted a fierce row over the question of who might be best placed to beat whichever emerges victorious.
