Sentence examples similar to mostly fierce from inspiring English sources

Venders — mostly fierce-looking women with long braids and bowler hats — sat in stalls between heaps of Andean produce: watermelons as big as a bulldog's belly, purple corn with kernels like gumballs, plantains the color of paprika.

That certainly proved true Friday and Saturday, when the United States and Europe continued their fierce, mostly civil, but intense battle for a 17-inch gold trophy.

Still, Carnesecca was willing to risk sounding as if he were barricaded inside a decade long vanished, pining for when the groundbreaking conference of fierce, mostly Catholic university rivals was "much smaller, localized," while making perfect geographic sense.

But he also draws historical parallels between "the 18th-century Superpower" and the United States today, describing Bunker Hill as the Hamburger Hill of Britain, a Pyrrhic victory that mostly revealed the fierce tenacity of the enemy.

That will probably continue, partly because jobs are becoming more concentrated in cities but mostly because of fierce opposition to building homes in the countryside.How many long-distance railway trips those city-dwellers will want to take is less clear.

The oxidation of methane proceeded and was completed mostly in the fierce reaction zone.

The fierce maneuvering, mostly focused on black and Hispanic lawmakers, came as the House prepared for a debate on Thursday and a final vote no later than Friday -- a swift Republican timetable that put lobbying on the issue in high gear and would quickly remove from center stage an issue that has played to the advantage of Democrats.

Attacks like these used to come mostly from conservative quarters: in fierce resistance to "judicial supremacy" when the court outlawed segregation; in the cries of "Impeach Earl Warren!" as the court put procedural handcuffs on once-routine police abuses; and in denunciations of "judicial activism," when the court began protecting reproductive freedom.

Wilders mostly gained notoriety with his fierce and vocal anti-Islam stance.

While we adore our mostly tropical, languid porch time, fierce thunder storms and regular flooding obviously make for ENORMOUS challenges.

Henry grew up to occasionally show flashes of a fierce temper, but mostly, as historian David Carpenter describes, he had an "amiable, easy-going, and sympathetic" personality.