Tennessee's more experienced players have been counseling the younger players this week about what to expect Saturday: a full arena (capacity is 24,525), a national television audience and a skilled, intense opponent.
Debate in Mexico about Mr. Fox's campaign for a seat on the Security Council has been equally intense, with opponents worried that Mexico would be called to send help to police settlements of violent conflicts.
There may be no matchup with such intense play and opponents who are more respectful of each other's strengths.
She is working under intense pressure from opponents in Congress, from powerful industries, from impatient environmentalists and from the Supreme Court, which just affirmed the agency's duty to address global warming emissions, a project that carries profound economic implications.
After all, she spent close to three decades focused on the aspirations of her husband, and more than two decades as the target of her political opponents' intense and rather personalized ire.
After intense lobbying by opponents of paddling in schools, the Senate on Wednesday changed the wording of legislation protecting teachers from lawsuits to say explicitly that it was not intended to affect policies regarding corporal punishment.
The reasons for Britain's less restrictive approach include less intense lobbying from opponents of abortion; a longer track record of research in the area, much of which was pioneered in Britain; an earlier start on the public debate; and a generally respected regulatory authority that oversees both in vitro fertilization clinics and human embryo research.
The measure passed in the Assembly, but failed in the Senate after intense lobbying by opponents, including environmentalists, the religious right and Donald Trump, who paid $855,750 to a team of lobbyists and whose Atlantic City casinos would have been threatened by casinos in New York.
The Atlantic Monthly's Conor Friedersdorf offers a hypothetical: Consider an issue like abortion, which divides the country in a particularly intense way, with opponents earnestly regarding it as the murder of an innocent baby and many abortion-rights supporters earnestly believing that a foetus is not a human life, and that outlawing it is a horrific assault on a woman's bodily autonomy.
Not unlike Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, both candidates aroused intense animosity among opponents.
