As a teenager, I was not just his daughter but his eyes, too, and I grew fiercely protective of him.
She grew fiercely attached to her first prime minister, Lord Melbourne, who tutored Victoria in her responsibilities as a constitutional monarch.
And anxiety has been growing fiercely that the cholera epidemic, which began last week in the northwest of Haiti, will soon strike the earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.
In the last decade, he was also forced to focus on the rapidly changing world of health care finance, as government programs and managed care companies trimmed reimbursements to hospitals, which in turn grew fiercely competitive.
Second, Chinese "native web" companies listed on exchanges in the U.S. and Hong Kong, such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, are all growing fiercely (despite recent market gyrations).
The free-trade agreements baked into the core of the EU is what makes all of this possible; staying competitive in a rapidly growing, fiercely international world.
The online dating market has grown fiercely competitive.
Meanwhile, in Port-au-Prince's overcrowded and unsanitary camps, concern about the cholera epidemic has been growing fiercely, with people anxiously calling hotlines to find out more about hand washing and other preventative measures.
It is also a growing and fiercely competitive business.
To some older Koreans, though, who grew up fiercely anti-Communist and pro-American, the changes have been hard to swallow.
