Sentence examples for fierce times from inspiring English sources

Eli Attie, a speechwriter for Gore who now writes scripts for "The West Wing," said, "These are fierce times, and Gore's responding to them with fierce, passionate language.

These are fierce theological times.

But he collected 30,000 signatures to run against Mr. Lazio anyway, and has since waged a fierce, at times below-the-radar, campaign, cobbling together a coalition of social conservatives, Tea Party members and deficit hawks.

The Desert Music, a setting of William Carlos Williams that is one of Reich's great, groundbreaking achievements of the 80s, fared much better, though, and Järvi's performance, urgent, almost fierce at times, caught its sense of surging, pulsing energy perfectly.

Some years ago, Claudia Roden was walking down a hall in an apartment house in North London, on her way to a friend's, when she… Late one night toward the end of March, after a day spent listening to too many Frenchmen talk politics, I called room service at my… These are fierce theological times.

A collective of hermits, whose fierce, at times cranky attachment to their own individual development was matched by only their yearning for fellowship, for a kind of collective fulfillment, in a permanent cycle of community and schism that launched a thousand ashrams, synagogues, dojos and schools of cuisine.

And Aftermath looks set to provoke more anger: it is a fierce, at times brutal examination of how Cusk left her husband of 10 years, and how she then tried to rebuild her life and the lives of her two children – considering stay-at-home mothers who describe themselves as "lucky", a disturbed lodger and a new lover along the way.

Over a decade at Madrid, Ramos has had his cheerleaders but he has also faced criticism and it has been fierce at times, pointed and political too – "when you get hit here, you get hit hard," he says – but he wins them over in the end.

"There's been a long-standing debate in this country that is usually that much more fierce during times of transition, or when presidents are trying to bring about big changes," Obama told CNN.

That is exactly what happened in 2006, and has happened again with Adidas's new Jabulani ball, though the criticism has been unusually fierce this time.

But from 11 to 11 30, without fierce prime-time competition, the rating jumped to a 16.6, before finishing with a 14.1 from 12 30 to 12 40 a.m.