Sentence examples for hitherto fierce from inspiring English sources

Discretionary payments by boards to executives often carry with them a nasty smell; in this case, there is an unfortunate-looking coincidence, at the very least, of the timing of the bonuses and the decision by Mr Esser to abandon his hitherto fierce opposition to the Vodafone deal.

Almost the only leader to stand up for Ms Aubry was Ségolène Royal, the defeated Socialist presidential candidate in 2007 and hitherto a fierce rival.What to make of this cacophony?

The uprising has hitherto been fiercest in rural areas.

The secretary of energy, Bill Richardson, criticised the FERC for not being bold enough.Mr Davis, for whom the power crisis has brought the first really fierce criticism of his hitherto uncontroversial time in office, objected that the commission had not gone far enough, and said that he was looking into the possibility of re-regulating the entire industry.

If they had real power in their provinces, they might drop their fierce opposition to devolution, which they have hitherto seen as a Western device to fragment their country.Alas, there has so far been no sign that the government of Nuri al-Maliki is poised to grab this opportunity.

Hitherto insipid, Arsenal awoke.

From the stylebook: heretofore, hitherto.

Diplomacy, hitherto fruitless, is intensifying.

Hitherto, the EU did not formally exist.

Most were hitherto dormant Socialist supporters.

Hitherto, what happened was this.