Sentence examples for point of fierce from inspiring English sources

That has been a point of fierce contention.

Education became a point of fierce family pride.

(That makes trips like these a point of fierce contention for those in the United States who oppose greater contact between the two countries).

After Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence in 1992, Sarajevo became a focal point of fierce warfare in the region in the mid-90s, and the city suffered considerable damage.

These data traveled along the Web and became points of fierce debate on message boards and blogs.

The drones are a vivid reminder that Benghazi has become the focal point of a fierce debate over what role the United States should seek to play in shaping the new order emerging from the revolts of the Arab Spring, an issue that is expected to be a flash point in Monday night's foreign policy debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama.

Beyond these facts, there's very little about this collection of images that hasn't, at some point, been the subject of fierce dispute in a $200m legal battle between their current owner Rick Norsigian, and the estate of Ansel Adams – the "father" of US photography, whose black-and-white images of the American West are a highly lucrative staple of the greetings card and calendar industry.

Mr. Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff and a veteran practitioner of campaign imagery and messaging, found himself in a packed basement meeting room here, required to answer — under oath — a long day of fierce, pointed, personal, sometimes peculiar questions from Chicagoans who believe he should not be allowed to run for mayor.

The very definition soon became a fierce point of contention since each side knew the import of the symbolism.

A FILM that depicts Taiwan's half-century of Japanese colonial rule from the point of view of a fierce tribe of indigenous headhunters is generating a surge of national pride on the island.

Libya was a particularly fierce point of pride, where the bombing campaign did halt an anticipated massacre of rebels, in contrast to the Bosnian wars, when United Nations troops were unable to stop the killings of 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica.Mr.