Sentence examples for fierce set of from inspiring English sources

Though hotly contested at the time, the breakup turned out to be a boon for shareholders, creating a fierce set of rivals that amassed immense wealth.

Depending on the time of day and how the sun strikes it, the one-story façade can seem like a fierce set of teeth or a string of alabaster forearms holding up the sky.

One of the decorations appears to be the head of a medieval knight, his visor raised, revealing a fierce set of crossed eyes, and his helmet trailing a bouquet of red plumes.

He had some help: the "American Idol" winner Fantasia delivered a short, fierce set of screaming R&B, and the stand-up comedian known as Speedy did a familiar but effective routine, gleefully roasting audience members who had good seats and bad timing.

For example, in an otherwise excellent discussion of Yeats's use of ottava rima (a type of eight-line stanza), Vendler attributes great effect to "the pacing" allegedly created by "a fierce set of enjambments" followed by a "violent drop" in the fourth stanza of the poem "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen".

Like Obama, he faces both an oligarchy of bankers and a fierce set of political opponents determined to block his program.

This should not be taken as a direct criticism of the principal protagonists; rather it once again illustrated the fierce set-up of a US Open course.

Facing an audience of rabid cult fans, she sang a short set of fierce, bittersweet songs, pausing every few minutes to accept applause and, at one point, an oversize Valentine's Day card.

But hunters and hikers alike are liable to come face to face with a nasty surprise: a growing number of feral hogs, the destructive descendants of domesticated animals, are stalking America.During its short and brutal life, a feral hog may grow to become a monster of several hundred pounds, covered with bristly hair and fronted with a set of fierce, killing tusks.

The statement set of a fierce debate on Twitter, where many were quick to condemn the ruling.

Former Sen. Pat Moynihan, a longtime C.I.A. critic, observed that Washington "was still worrying about intercontinental missiles when we had a wholly new set of threats, the fierce and unresolved Islamic antagonism over centuries of domination from the West".