Sentence examples for marked by fierce from inspiring English sources

Though he came into office last January with a sweeping electoral mandate for change, Mr. Spitzer's time as governor was marked by fierce combat and costly stumbles.

The complaint said that the two-day trial was marked by fierce denunciations of the United States in the courtroom, and that the prosecution failed to present evidence of Mr. Anderson having had contact with the anti-Castro group.

His first term has been marked by fierce partisan battles that have frozen Washington into political gridlock.

The election battle leading up to Saturday's balloting was marked by fierce campaigning and anti-gay rhetoric.

Conflating the two, however, masks a more complex relationship, marked by fierce rivalry, wounded feelings and long periods of estrangement.

Nepal's premiers rarely last much longer than a year in office and Mr Khanal's seven-and-a-half months had been marked by particularly fierce opposition.

His outstanding service to NYU spanned more than half a century and was marked by a fierce devotion to medical students and house staff.

The aftermath of the attempted bombing has been marked by an increasingly fierce partisan exchange over culpability heading into a midterm election year.

In his early comedy he was interested in puns and then went through an improvisational stage, but his work would become marked by meta-humor, fierce intelligence and sensitivity to language.

The Vietnam war was held against a backdrop of controversy back home, marked by antiwar protests and fierce opposition to conscription.

In the decades that followed, civilians experienced devastation caused by conflicts that played out completely differently to the two world wars – marked by proxy conflicts and fierce battles of ideology fought in the name of religion or regime change.