Sentence examples for in which fierce from inspiring English sources

These institutions also are acutely aware that the traditional university setting, in which fierce competition trumps concern for collective success, can alienate underrepresented students.

Beinn na Caillich on the Isle of Skye is one of her haunts, as are other mountains prominent in the landscape, and from which fierce storms of sleet and rain descend, wreaking havoc and destruction upon the lands below.

At the heart of the work is a long, affecting duet for Miriam Wolf and Michael Helland in which their fierce entangled encounters feel like a thwarted, frantic search for emotional connection.

And Andrea Mantegna's close-up portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan from 1459-60, in which the fierce, square-jawed cleric leans to his right and looks up to his left, projects an especially palpable feeling of a living, contemporary presence.

When he was on his way to winning the title here in 2012, his fellow Scots Alex Ferguson and Sean Connery famously invaded his press conference in celebratory mood after he had bamboozled Tomas Berdych in the semi-final, a match in which a fierce gale wrecked the Czech's high ball-toss.

César Odio was Miami's (appointed) city manager; Alex Penelas was mayor of Miami-Dade County during the Elián González controversy, in which, over fierce (and bipartisan) protests in Miami, the Clinton administration returned to Cuba a child whose father remained on the island and whose mother tried to take him with her to Florida in a makeshift raft but drowned on the voyage.

The chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs is to step down after four years in which she faced fierce criticism over a failure to answer millions of calls from the public and the HSBC tax scandal.

Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts tangled over taxes and government spending yesterday as the Republican presidential candidates debated in Michigan, highlighting the way in which their increasingly fierce confrontation is starting to dominate the race for their party's nomination.

This is confounded in Korea's highly competitive environment in which there is fierce competition among clinics and between clinics and hospitals.

Reporters travelling with the fighting units have filed thrilling accounts of "fierce battles"—fierce battles in which, on closer inspection, half a dozen coalition soldiers, or often none at all, turn out to have been wounded or killed.

That sparked a period of pressure from the Premier League side in which James McClean had a fierce effort blocked and Chester wasted a chance when a Craig Gardner found him unmarked at the far post.