Sentence examples for initially fierce from inspiring English sources

There is then, initially, fierce opposition to Guttmann's new-fangled methods.

Her wartime visits to the East End of London initially provoked fierce hostility.

Both Darwin and Freud have had their detractors, and the ideas of both men initially faced fierce opposition.

He was initially a fierce critic of Trump, saying he represented a "cancer on conservatism" that should be "clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded".

Although she initially had fierce terrace envy when she moved into the building 30 years ago and could not get an apartment with one, she quickly realized that they were places that not only need constant cleaning but are also potentially hazardous to the pets who shared her two-bedroom apartment.

Although the attackers initially encountered fierce resistance, hand-to-hand combat lasted just ten minutes before the leaderless French sailors broke and ran.

Photos from the scene initially showed a fierce orange blaze and heavy, billowing smoke and later the charred ruins of the building.

Poundland took over 80 former Woolworths stores but its planned debut on the main shopping parade in the affluent west London suburb of Twickenham initially met with fierce opposition, including a Facebook campaign, with some residents keen to see the vacant shop become a farmers' market.Now McCarthy says: "Nobody complains about anything but the queues".

Mr. Furrow's surrender initially touched off a fierce behind-the-scenes struggle over who would try him first.

Although initially attacked for its fierce critique of unregulated capitalism, "The Grapes of Wrath" was a phenomenal bestseller and won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

There was fierce resistance initially, and routine comments from otherwise serious writers and radio presenters of "political correctness gone mad" – almost always by people who had not seen the book.