But on the matter of faith the letters are often fierce and beautiful.
While competition is often fierce in these new markets and margins thin, analysts expect to see more robust growth.
Although competition is often fierce, Belgium's InBev, the world's leading brewer by volume, and SABMiller have become adept at operating where margins are slim.
(Ages 10 to 14) True folklore is often fierce, especially when it hasn't been prettied up or dumbed down for fear of frightening children.
Though they are often fierce competitors, they tend to be deeply reluctant to expose problems, conflicts and disagreements, and they have a reputation for nursing failed relationships and projects for years rather than suffer the embarrassment of a public argument or admission of error.
"These companies, which are often fierce competitors, have joined together to voice concern about the attempted government overreach in this case, which threatens the integrity and security of their products and privacy rights of consumers in general," said Neal Katyal, a lawyer at Hogan Lovells for the tech companies and a former acting solicitor general of the United States.
In STEM classes, rigid grading curves are prevalent and peer competition is often fierce.
Due to their geographical overlapping, competition between enterprises of various ownership were often fierce, and disputes sometimes broke out when local-level enterprises encroached on the mining area of central- and provincial-level SOEs.
Queenlike, grand and generous, she was often considered fierce.
This can be observed repeatedly in the history of science: Each time a major new concept such as quantum mechanics, natural selection, or the asteroid extinction of the dinosaurs emerged, opposition was often the fiercest from those who were "experts" in the field.
