Sentence examples for vicious rounds from inspiring English sources

Last week it came back to haunt him and to prompt one of the most vicious rounds of finger-pointing, bitterness and recriminations in an administration that prides itself on keeping its feuding within the family.

In 1982, a 23-year-old lightweight boxer named Duk Koo Kim, from South Korea -- the country that would give us Hodori the friendly tiger -- died after 14 vicious rounds in a Las Vegas boxing match, an event that occasioned a good deal of anguished soul-searching both inside and outside the world of sports.

He and his card rivals wore fedoras and smoked and played vicious rounds of pinochle.

Local officials responded with a vicious round of beatings.

The Sunni terrorists' demolition of the golden-domed Shia shrine at Samarra in 2006 set off a vicious round of sectarian "cleansing" that left tens of thousands dead.

The debate during the campaign reflected the national debate over spending and closed with an often vicious round of robo-calls, fliers and accusations.

Linares was now cut, over his left eye, but this did not prevent him clumping Crolla with a vicious round-house to his temple.

What should have been a marvelous moment of celebration turned instead into a vicious round of corporate infighting and sub-rosa backbiting.

Last summer's joint American-Iraqi operation, codenamed "Together Forward", was followed by the most vicious round of killing yet seen in the city.Now, with the surge, "this is going to be completely different," predicts General Keane.

It is Kenya's singular tragedy that the leaders who came to power in 1963 with broad national support then set off on a vicious round of infighting along ethnic lines and soon fell out bitterly.

Less than a year ago, during one particularly vicious round of parliamentary debate, an opposition party member said that Mr. Brown had gone from Stalin to Mr. Bean, the bumbling British comedian, creating chaos out of order instead of the reverse.