Sentence examples for measures fiercely from inspiring English sources

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He pledged to raise wages for city workers and require that businesses offer more sick days to their employees, two measures fiercely opposed by Mr. Bloomberg and elements of the business community.

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She is thought to support compulsory sex education in schools – a measure fiercely opposed by academies and blocked by Cameron, it is believed.

That measure, fiercely opposed by small parties who feared that they would be wiped out in the new system, was also opposed by Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the center-right party Forza Italia.

These measures are fiercely controversial.

He called for stronger law and order measures, but fiercely opposed the introduction of internment without trial in August 1971.

All these measures were fiercely contested by the health care industry and, consequently, by Bush and the GOP leadership.

State officials in Utah and Colorado have generally sided with the landowners, citing the importance of encouraging voluntary conservation measures in these fiercely independent ranching communities.

But that such a task is necessary at all is a measure of how fiercely competitive the rituals of presidential debating have become, and of the degree to which the campaigns have developed sophisticated machinery to try to turn these crucial encounters to their advantage.

The latest candidate for supernova celebrity – provisionally called PTF 11kly – is blazing in the Pinwheel galaxy, 21m light years away: it has already earned its place in history, if only because astronomers caught the explosion within hours of its commencement, and are now fiercely measuring every stage of its bright but brief convulsion.

But others, including both advocates and opponents of e-cigarettes, said that with time short for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to burnish his legacy, he chose to withdraw a measure that was fiercely opposed by a coalition of retail stores and likely to meet a powerful constitutional challenge.

On this basis, it seems clear that Measure for Measure came first, and that the dramatist turned later to the discouragingly undramatic narrative of All's Well (Measure for Measure's story is fiercely dramatic) because he had found out what the bed trick could do for him.

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