Sentence examples for take a fierce from inspiring English sources

It is not a lost cause, but it will take a fierce and vocal lobby to effect another Cameron U-turn.

The online availability of free or low-cost photos and videos has begun to take a fierce toll on sales of X-rated DVDs.

Paella – the Spanish dish of rice, meat, seafood and vegetables – is named after the pan used to make the dish – a wide, shallow pan that cooks the rice evenly and can take a fierce heat.

They can, but it will take a fierce full court press to do it.

Those winds are already taking a fierce toll.

Partly to flee a British press that had taken a fierce dislike to Yoko.

Still, it takes a fierce love to be a 70's collector.

We join the story as Serge retires from his job in a meat-packing plant: a sad day, because he appears to have taken a fierce pride in his own pork-product professionalism.

Thesiger never married and identified with the obstinacy of the nomadic Bedouins, who took "a fierce pride in the hardship of their lives" and "forced an unwilling recognition of their superiority on the villagers and townsmen".

Needless to say, all those jokes are based around the idea of their unlikelihood – but who, in a few years time, will be able to recollect that Ruth, Lady Fermoy would have taken a fierce pride in not breaking wind, or begging like a dog, or leading cockney sing-songs?

It took a fierce shot to quell the visitors, and establish United's ambitions to build on last season's progress.