Sentence examples for fiercely applied from inspiring English sources

Where market fundamentalism has been most fiercely applied – in countries like the US and UK – social mobility has greatly declined.

His defence was meagre but fiercely applied: a few days before the crime he had been drinking with the Captain at the squat; the Captain gave him four glasses of wine, one of which was spiked.

But the rules, says David Grove, president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce (and owner of the aforementioned lorry), "are written as if we were all raving idiots".Moreover, they are fiercely applied.

When Mr Verheugen suggested that merger rules might be applied less fiercely, liberals cried foul.

Punch began as a fiercely democratic weekly which applied to the young Queen Victoria and her growing family, as a matter of course, the same savage treatment that had been given by caricaturists of the previous hundred years to the Hanoverians.

He is sharing the bill with Buddy Guy, a bluesman who has lately applied his fiercely aggressive style to old-fashioned Mississippi blues, and with John Hiatt, a songwriter with a deep-diving baritone, a twang-happy band, a gift for twisted wordplay and enough strange facial expressions to rival Jim Carrey.

Fouchier had been fiercely opposed to applying for an export license, which he says is an inappropriate tool to control the flow of scientific information.

The soul singer Bettye LaVette, who proudly announced that she is 62, applied the raw, fiercely affecting rasp of her voice and her subtly theatrical presence to songs from her recent albums.

And of course she inspired his art, becoming the literal embodiment of her husband's aesthetic — elegant, simple, fiercely intimate and glowingly sensual, with shadow and light beautifully in balance — as it applied to the female form.

In MP, 37% of the population live below poverty (when a fiercely contested much lower Indian poverty standard of approximately 25 cents a day per person (31) is applied).

Norway's government twice applied for membership of the EU, only to be slapped down by oil-rich and fiercely patriotic voters at referendums in 1972 and 1994.