He had been kicked and punched fiercely but hadn't fought back, hadn't even tried. |
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But plans to house the turbines at Pool Hill, near Kitchenroyd, have been fiercely attacked by residents. |
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He was fiercely attacked, and even some figures who privately sympathized with his views were too cowed to defend him publicly. |
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Fully aware of the situation, he is fiercely attacking the administration for its pro-business stances and special-interest politics. |
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Leuthner was fiercely attacked for his theses at the time by social democratic leader Karl Kautsky. |
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Jiao had fiercely attacked the Ministry of Propaganda as an out-of-date dinosaur. |
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The play was fiercely attacked by critics and made headline news in the tabloids. |
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Two guards either side of the castle doors stood to attention, their eyes scouring the Teger men fiercely. |
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He demonstrates how fiercely technical a craft climbing is, solitary, dangerous and exacting. |
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In the jungle, where space is fiercely guarded, lions and other predators chalk out their territory using scent marking. |
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Despite their size, hummingbirds are aggressive and will fiercely defend their territory from other species as well as other hummingbirds. |
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To the fiercely rhythmic sound of drums and whistles, the young bloods of the village lined up in a column three-deep. |
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A decade ago there were no Bentleys, nor many of the other makes of cars that now battle it out in a fiercely competitive market. |
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The flame flickered and then burnt fiercely, casting a warm yellow light over the small study. |
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He has been asked to stop beating his drum so fiercely after complaints about the noise. |
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Its platoon of battle-ready pundits attacks fiercely, with the confidence of small boys playing tin soldiers on Mummy's carpet. |
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Evolutionary biologists debate fiercely about how macroevolutionary change emerges from microevolution. |
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He has a simple logic, which is to belt the ball, as often and as fiercely as possible. |
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She is at once fiercely competitive and ladylike, a fighter to the death and yet a model of polite understatement. |
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Hooke was a difficult man, fiercely competitive, touchy, quarrelsome, and a vicious critic. |
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During one of the regular Talmud games on Shabbat, Reb Saunders becomes irate when Danny's participation is less than fiercely enthusiastic. |
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The Bhutanese are fiercely protective of their national identity and natural heritage. |
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She's fiercely proud of her roots there and never misses an opportunity to promote her native place. |
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It's warm to hot in the south and Corsica, but the mistral can blow fiercely in summer making Mediterranean seas too rough for diving. |
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For decades, bitter arguments about devolution have bubbled away under the surface of a party fiercely proud of its unionist credentials. |
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A fiercely independent man, he lived at home and enjoyed a busy retirement until shortly before his death. |
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Howling wind blew fiercely from all directions as thick clouds covered the sky, shrouding the graveyard in an almost complete darkness. |
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Naturally more recently independent States wish to do the same and thus fiercely guard their Westphalian sovereignty. |
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Even those who are well known, for whatever reason, will fiercely guard their privacy. |
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The Kodavas have fiercely guarded their tradition and customs as well as their uniqueness. |
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A fireplace set in one wall blazed fiercely, keeping the room and the food set on an iron grid before it, warm. |
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Fire still blazed fiercely in front of the small family, preventing any form of escape. |
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The Marine's eyes blazed fiercely, her lips set in a grim line as her hair drifted, hiding the bandages on her face. |
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The Tabarka is a blockship in Burra Sound, lying in around 12m of fiercely tidal water. |
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Proud, reactionary, occasionally intimidating, fiercely independent, bloody-minded perhaps, but not sanguine. |
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Sara blew fiercely, her breath growing short as she struggled to remove the last few seedlings. |
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Looking at her feet, she nodded fiercely and curled and uncurled her toes to maintain the flow of blood. |
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The wind is blowing so fiercely that you realise that something must be wrong. |
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Her heart pounding fiercely out of her chest, she leaned out the window a little further, preparing to slide her right foot along the ledge. |
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Loyal and fiercely ambitious, she only sparingly shared need-to-know information with her own colleagues. |
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Mia cried out in surprise of the brilliance of the light while the vampire hissed fiercely. |
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Her compelling debut novel introduced readers to two fiercely independent soul sisters who embarked on a remarkable journey of self-discovery. |
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The Germans resist fiercely from bunkers, but the tanks systematically suppress enemy fire. |
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Twenty-four hours ago, I was buoyed by the confidence of having three plates fiercely spinning. |
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Verity Stob's humor is in the stoic British tradition of a Tony Hancock, fiercely moral but utterly non-judgemental. |
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He then lapses into what can only be called voodoo economics to prove that the poor are best served by the fiercely competitive private sector. |
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Before he could focus on the living room crammed with people, he was pounced on by a short, chubby, buxom woman who hugged him fiercely. |
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It was raining hail and ice, and I looked on as the waves fiercely crashed against the shoreline. |
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The eugenics movement lobbied fiercely in favour of measures of forced sterilization for entire categories of the population. |
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A rawdon school seeking to move to a new site is holding out an olive branch to those who fiercely opposed the move. |
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The dogs are fiercely protective of our house while the cats keep the mouse population in check. |
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Looking around her, she realized she was in the company of the fiercely orgulous. |
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The government is clamping down fiercely on a popular uprising, which has seen hundreds killed. |
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Here is music that is fiercely modern yet filled with strong emotional resonance. |
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Between two writers so fiercely independent and hermetically enclosed within their own worlds, there cannot be mention of a direct influence. |
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I watched the topography that I had grown to love fiercely become leveled, watered, and consumed by sterile stuccoed cubes. |
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The host was politically incorrect, chain-smoking, and fiercely monarchist. |
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The sad fact is that for the second time in succession Rangers were fiercely unlucky not to progress. |
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The only immediate sound was the gentle swish of my gown as I turned fiercely, looking down the hall and then the opposite side. |
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Dietary dilemmas aside, the match promises to be a fiercely contested clash between two top rugby nations. |
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They don't see that the fiercely patriotic Indian army is as brave and committed as any army. |
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The staff remain fiercely proud of their product, which has won a clutch of awards. |
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China alone has 8,000 toy makers competing fiercely for contracts by shaving pennies off production costs. |
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I think it's her sleeve that perturbs me most, aside from the fact that the entire dress bores me fiercely. |
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Two wins from two starts is his record and this highly-rated gelding is fancied for a hat-trick in a fiercely competitive event. |
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Each category had a minimum of 30 participants fiercely competing for the honours. |
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They drew brightly decorated swords from the sheaths, and fiercely struck the Assyrian warriors, those intent on aggression. |
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As if they were in grade school again, they rolled over one another, fiercely hitting whenever and wherever they could. |
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All our citizens, especially young people, will fiercely oppose anyone who tries to attack. |
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The Romans dithered and competed for the honor of victory, while the people of Carthage fought fiercely, knowing their fate. |
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The commanders fight fiercely and win the day against the traitorous forces. |
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With Zeus turned away from the battle, Poseidon inspires Ajax and Idomeneus to fight more fiercely. |
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The hunter leaped up in the air, fiercely kicked at her head, and tackled her before she could even drop to the floor. |
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They reached the ravine and fiercely laid siege to the strong defenses made there in the last attempt to stop them. |
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She continued to twist and fight fiercely against her bonds, but they grew even tighter. |
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He has a couple of ex-con punks working for him in all kinds of criminal activity, and it is they who spark the flames that burn so fiercely. |
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The tale informs us that the sun, one day, burned so fiercely as to cause great distress. |
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When the sun beat down too fiercely, she would take me to the funerary temple of the great Queen Hatshepsut. |
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The heartless wife suggested that she should make her husband's bath so fiercely hot that he would not survive after entering it. |
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And we kept looking out and noticing that the waves were getting bigger and the wind was blowing more fiercely. |
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An exciting and charismatic figure, Harry chooses his friends carefully and is fiercely loyal to the end. |
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My objection to his reading is that it is too fiercely moralistic and diminishes Shakespeare's spirit of intellectual inquiry. |
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While their fiercely offbeat sounds may initially dissuade, a bit of perseverance can reap immense rewards. |
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The dominant ideology remained fiercely scientific, the battle against the bugs being the front line. |
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The still center of the action is Andromache, grieving for the dead Hector and fiercely protective of her young son. |
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Meath, true to their county's battling trait, fought fiercely to save the game in the closing minutes. |
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The book is a riveting character study of a fiercely intelligent and insular man coming to terms with his sexuality. |
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There was a huge explosion and the fireball burned fiercely as the tanker's load of fuel ignited. |
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He suggested that they be sent back to Africa, an idea which the contrabandists fiercely rejected. |
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The juristic theory of the state that generated this image was fiercely opposed by pragmatists and pluralists. |
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He was the perfect guide to Iran, at once making a mockery of Iranian hostility to the West and fiercely proud of his homeland. |
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This shade of blue flatters almost any skin tone and is fiercely hot right now. |
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While those games in the A pool were fiercely contested, other teams employed a more reasonable approach. |
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When daylight came, already the roof of the dome, with its cupola and lantern, had fallen in, its timbers burning fiercely. |
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They drew swords, and fought fiercely, cussing and insulting each other as swiftly as they threw blows. |
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Realistically, our mission was to delay their advance and gain time by fighting fiercely, imaginatively, courageously-even to the last man. |
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When Charles determined to force the Anglican prayer book on the fiercely Calvinist Scots, it sparked open rebellion. |
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It lashed its mile long pointed tail fiercely about and looked around, darting its brown-red eyes, wildly scanning the ground below. |
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Activists went on arguing fiercely against the gender-blind attitudes of the courts. |
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The American Bar Association has been fiercely critical of the way that prisoners have been treated legally. |
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His deft movement to the right to push clear the fiercely driven shot was goal keeping of the highest standard. |
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He fiercely denied that knowledge, not even wanting to admit it to himself. |
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But then the woman suddenly dropped him and turned back to the elevator, taking her anger out on the buttons as she punched the code in fiercely. |
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The floor was covered in mats, and assortments of punching bags were all around, and being abused fiercely by groups of boys Wong's age. |
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Garments incorporating the imperial purple were particularly valued, and at all times their sale and export was fiercely supervised. |
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That's why so many developing countries are competing fiercely to attract their investment. |
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They even punched and grappled and ducked occasionally, fiercely and physically fighting him off in whatever way they could. |
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Digital natives are proud and fiercely protective of their island and will defend it whatever the cost may be. |
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The government has fiercely denied opposition claims that it has created an army in embryo, without parliament's consent. |
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Asked in Europe for her name at airport immigration, for instance, she was fiercely disobliging. |
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Colin and Miriam are dueling fiercely near the bar, their blades clashing against each other. |
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They defended their villages fiercely, and remain deeply distrustful of the outside world. |
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With both teams back on equal footing, the match became a fiercely and evenly contested battle. |
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Most people are either aloof or rude and fiercely supsicious of and competitive towards other exhibitors. |
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And yet beneath the mellow exterior lies a fiercely independent, and at times disputatious, thinker. |
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The eyes say, quite fiercely, that nobody is going to take his achievements from him. |
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It's all a testament to the spendy tastes and fiercely pro-urban character of the people who live in this part of town. |
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His fiercely nonconformist parents, small shopkeepers, brutally opposed and curbed his bent for painting. |
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The attacks demonstrate that the guerrilla war is still being waged fiercely. |
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Although his humour is dark and satirical it is also fiercely funny, and a good time was had by all. |
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Big, bold, and fiercely territorial, these birds dominate all other waterfowl in their domains. |
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Despite being backstabbers and fiercely jealous of each other, I think of writers as an international guild. |
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He was also a man of Rabelaisian appetites, fiercely loyal friendships, and great good humour. |
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Sam glared fiercely up at the half-moon peeking through the branches of the weeping willow. |
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He is adamant that he will never marry again and guards his new-found freedom fiercely. |
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Acutally, even the jumping spiders that posture fiercely on door and window frames are worth watching. |
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The former House majority leader's carefully constructed and fiercely defended redoubt of power seems about to go kablooey. |
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But the fiercely competitive makers of Winchester drives have fought off foreign competition. |
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I am as spottily informed and fiercely opinionated as the next kibitzer about these potential calamities. |
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The Pup of the Year title is fiercely contested, with previous winners having gone on to win Supreme Champion at Crufts. |
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She looked even more worn-out than ever, with her youngest child clutching her hand, tugging fiercely on it. |
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For decades the Wyandots fought the white man fiercely in the area in which Wyandot Service Plaza is now located. |
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A number of women became famous for their poems inciting warriors to fight fiercely, lamenting death or defeat, or celebrating victory. |
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She was fiercely independent and very self sufficient and I got the idea that she didn't like being babied or fussed over by men. |
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His movement hoped to be accepted as the near contemporary Franciscans were but was anathematised and fiercely persecuted. |
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Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty. |
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Greek city-states were fiercely independent and often profoundly antagonistic to their immediate Greek neighbours. |
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Ministers hope the move will reduce the number of teenage pregnancies but anti-abortion campaigners have fiercely opposed the changes. |
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With so much potentially at stake, this politically charged issue is fanning a fiercely emotional debate. |
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They are fiercely against a levy on plastic bags, even though a levy in Ireland saw a 90 per cent reduction in bags over six months. |
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The sun had been beating fiercely down on her tear-streaked face as she saw her father lying there, dead. |
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They are fiercely attached to Sadr's guidance and his family's lineage of revered clerics. |
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The months roll by, hardening Lian's rugged, and already fiercely independent spirit. |
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Arikha's own unsparing self-portraits, often nude, show a fiercely alert, intelligent, sometimes astonished, sometimes grimacing face. |
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Everyone complains about the state of education, and yet most people remain fiercely loyal to their local schools. |
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He had been fiercely loyal to the king and had a promising future in the army. |
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The country has fiercely denied US allegations that it is using an ambitious atomic energy project as a cover to develop nuclear weapons. |
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Luke is placed in an isolated environment with strict rules, guards, and regimentation and his fiercely individualistic spirit immediately clashes. |
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My eyesight was also heightened considerably, with the bright, whitewashed walls that had large pieces of plaster flaking off the surface standing out fiercely at me. |
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Dolly yattered at them fiercely, in a non-discriminatory way. |
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The film's use of music is as fiercely original as its camerawork. |
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He has always guarded his private life fiercely, arguing that talking about his off-screen relationships cheapens them and hampers his professional ability to be a chameleon. |
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Very few domestic rooms have the proportions of a grand hall that are needed to carry off one of those huge wrought-iron chandeliers sporting fiercely flaming torches. |
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Each episode of the programme, anchored by Yugendran, son of the well-known singer, Malaysia Vasudevan, has three teams fiercely competing with one another. |
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Yet he is fiercely house-proud and is happy to receive visitors. |
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In it, the wind howls fiercely, driving rain like stinging knifes in a torrential downpour, so heavy that he can't see more than two feet in front of his face. |
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Parliaments in the English tradition are fiercely protective of their constitutional supremacy and they are unchallengeable masters of their own proceedings. |
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His mechanical approach to grammar, fiercely denying pragmatics and therefore the main finding of the humanities in the twentieth century, blocks progress. |
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Never mind Hernandez's meager 34 percent plurality in the fiercely battled contest. |
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The provisional government boisterously protested the students' actions and fought fiercely for the unconditional and immediate release of the hostages. |
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There were all sorts of problems that came from people having rather weak identities that were being fiercely buffeted by their social circumstances. |
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With twice as many British soldiers, Washington was in for a fiercely competitive battle of wit and strength. |
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Winstead admits she was a tough boss, maybe too tough, inexperienced in delegating and fiercely protective of her vision. |
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Anything acknowledgment of potential downsides to a policy must be rebutted fiercely. |
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Again, the music's mood is ritualistic and almost fiercely celebratory. |
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In defense, embattled slaveholders clung ever more fiercely to a paternalistic rhetoric that posited slaves as inherently inferior and permanently dependent. |
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But from ancient times to the present, great powers that expand globally often run into subnational tribes or clans who resist fiercely, even unfathomably. |
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The opening match of the 7th World Cup will surely be the grudge match of the tournament and will no doubt set the scene for a fiercely contested title fight. |
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Kim's rage suddenly exploded, and she spun around fiercely to face him. |
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The feature tries to touch on some of the more controversial points of the Gospels that have been fiercely debated by academics and clergymen over the years. |
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Similarly, Woods is attacked for fiercely defending his privacy. |
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Children as young as five keep a fiercely protective grip on their younger siblings while loading one, sometimes two, plastic sacks onto their backs. |
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He won a fiercely dedicated following of young Chicano and Anglo organizers and the support of Hollywood celebrities, political luminaries, and social reformers. |
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There, with rich velvet Somerset ale, charcoal grilled steaks, and a spitting, crackling inglenook fiercely roasting away their dampness, they gradually returned to humanity. |
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While Michael was fiercely loyal in his professional and personal relationships, he had a ruthless streak and was prepared to put his career before all else. |
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In a fiercely tribal society, with traditions of internecine warfare that lasted at least until ten years ago, defensible towns and houses were vital. |
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The supernova generated a propagating shock wave, that continues to move rapidly through the low-density bubble interior, and shocks these cloudlets, shredding them fiercely. |
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It will come as a relief to residents of Old Broadway, all of whom were fiercely opposed to something that would have stuck out like a sore thumb. |
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Enemy planes make attacks on port, scoring a direct hit on a supply ship that blazes fiercely till next morning, when it is sunk by a British salvo. |
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Though still fiercely independent, they've embraced their new pop status and assembled a stop-gap record filled with B-sides, rarities and a couple of new cuts. |
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The rain beat against the frosted window while the wind howled fiercely. |
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She is deeply pious but also brave and fiercely protective of her son. |
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If the tide is not tugging too fiercely at your fins by now, you might wish to continue sternwards and view the most impressive area of the wreck. |
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In those days, each operatic diva had fiercely partisan fans. |
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The company, which has been based in Barlby Road, Selby, for almost 80 years, blames lack of demand for oilseed and a fiercely competitive market. |
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The media-shy couple, who were fiercely tight-lipped about their year-long romance, broke the news they were expecting a baby shortly before they wed. |
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Tehran has been actively working against Israeli-Turkmen relations, but Turkmenistan has fiercely asserted its neutrality. |
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At the time, dogmatists fiercely defended the view that an artificial lens would be impossibly difficult to implant, and would also be rejected by the immune system. |
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The midfielder's fiercely hit left wing cross was scrambled clear. |
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It might be meek, and fiercely fought over, compared to the fearful stability and dominance of monarchies and one-party regimes. |
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It offers a rosily revisionist view of his career as a fiercely partisan Richard Nixon defender during the Watergate scandal. |
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People always say if you get in with the Scottish people, they'll be fiercely committed to you, and we really saw that, it was a very special vibe. |
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He is a farmer, fiercely loyal to the land that provides his livelihood. |
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An undergraduate major in anthropology not only provides a sound Liberal Arts education but also gives students a needed edge in today's fiercely competitive job market. |
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With Johnson likely to be back, England will be expected to contest the ball a deal more fiercely and acquisitively than they did for the last hour against Italy. |
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He makes his body's tortured movements perversely vigorous, strenuously dragging his twisted leg, glaring fiercely, and speaking fast with a hard edge. |
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The recycling bins for paper and cardboard burned easily and fiercely. |
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Many collectors are fiercely independent and plough their own furrow. |
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As they were divided into clans and tribes, they have fiercely guarded their independence, preserving what has since become a very diverse and fascinating culture. |
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Of those that reached the shores of Formosa and splashed through the water to the junks, we hurried to untie the ships and rowed fiercely regardless of the winds. |
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He is fiercely protective of his pictures, printing each one himself, handling them with protective gloves, captioning them meticulously while Shelly records them. |
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It's such a fiercely unique movie, uncompromising in its visual excitement, that we're inclined to overlook the slightly dopey plot and shaky acting. |
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But the more they deny their passion, the more fiercely it burns. |
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Alice's sharp wit and blunt pronouncements could be intimidating, but if you didn't put on airs and weren't a fool, she was fiercely loyal and endlessly forgiving. |
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He is fiercely protective of his home, a haven amidst the chaos. |
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Two flatbed military trucks were abandoned with their cabs blazing fiercely as dozens of townspeople converged to loot tires and other vehicle parts. |
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Enemy planes make daylight and night attacks on port, scoring a direct hit on supply ship which blazes fiercely till next morning when it is sunk. |
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The Mademoiselles class was fiercely contested by the Dubois 45 metre sloop Lady B who outraced both Ganesha and Royal Huisman's Twizzie. |
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This chapter enables the reader to see Casaubon the scholar and Hebraist alongside Casaubon the fiercely committed Protestant polemicist. |
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In life, Yauch was fiercely concerned with keeping the Beastie Boys image uncommercialized. |
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Lillian Weber believed fiercely that we need to show unswerving faith in the intelligence of teachers and the educability of all children. |
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The Hongxi Emperor was fiercely against the treasure voyages throughout his reign. |
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Roughouts, some pundits assert, are therefore superior. Other pundits counterassert, fiercely. |
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Upon their return, Pompey and Crassus found the populares party fiercely attacking Sulla's constitution. |
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The Silures of southeast Wales caused considerable problems to Ostorius and fiercely defended the Welsh border country. |
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With their superior discipline, the Romans were able to continue fighting as fiercely as ever. |
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Hawking was, however, fiercely independent and unwilling to accept help or make concessions for his disabilities. |
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Following both defeats, Cornwallis was fiercely criticized for detaching a significant portion of his army without adequate mutual support. |
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A female will not react if a male approaches a nest but it will react fiercely if another female approaches. |
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Vlad fiercely resisted Ottoman rule, having both repelled the Ottomans and been pushed back several times. |
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The Silures resisted this invasion fiercely from their mountain strongholds, but the Romans eventually prevailed. |
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Like other mustelids, the polecat is usually a silent animal, though it will growl fiercely when angered, and squeak when distressed. |
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Authorities now regard obesity as one of the main public health issues and fight it fiercely. |
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With Admiral Lope de Hoces already dead from his wounds, she fiercely burned with great loss of life. |
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The French fought back fiercely and cut the cables that attached the two ships, separating Howard from his men. |
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The question of whether Domitian left the Roman Empire in debt or with a surplus at the time of his death has been fiercely debated. |
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Battles were fought fiercely in underground caverns with limited maneuvering capabilities. |
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His efforts were fiercely opposed by the colonists, resulting in the abrogation of their colonial charter by the Crown. |
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They were fiercely opposed to the hierarchical structure of the Established Church and the financial ties between it and the government. |
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His childhood was characterised by the contrasting influences of his father and mother, both fiercely ambitious for him. |
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The Scots have always been a fiercely independent people, but it surprised me how far this sedulous process of separation has gone already. |
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Under the rule of the fiercely anti-Shia Taliban, Ashura commemorations were forbidden, and the country's Shia population kept a low profile. |
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However, what I see is rational atheist Greens arguing fiercely with the homeopathic yoghurt-knitters, not a homogenous sect. |
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The beach is home to nesting Arctic terns, who are fiercely protective of their young. |
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Legendary 80-year old mentalist's entry into fiercely competitive dating arena deservingly catches important attention. |
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The 38-year-old mum of four came top at the fiercely contested Hershey Expo in the US, with her precious poodle Dobby. |
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And the trees scavenge fiercely from their own dying leaves, Kaiser-Bunbury and his colleagues report in the May New Phytologist. |
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Donnish, monkish, and fiercely right-wing, Veryser knew and loved the Middle American Radicals like they were family. |
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The sinewy muscles of his arms bunched together fiercely at his shoulder. |
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A top officer in the Texas army, he led Tejano troops fiercely loyal to Texas in the battles against Santa Anna. |
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Montrealers of all backgrounds are fiercely proud of their town's claim to be the birthplace of hockey. |
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Hobday and Love held the advantage at the halfway stage of the fiercely fought battle, being two up after nine holes. |
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Its anti-heroine is a fiercely independent packer in a cigarette factory. |
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He had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms. |
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Yet increasingly Ruskin concentrated his energies on fiercely attacking industrial capitalism, and the utilitarian theories of political economy underpinning it. |
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England, competing fiercely with the Dutch for domination of world trade, opposed Grotius' ideas and claimed sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. |
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Despite having a badly-bruised knee from training, the fiercely competitive former Olympic champion had come out on top in the girls' street luge challenge. |
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Having enjoyed virtual self-rule since then, they will fiercely resist falling back under the sway of the Pashtuns, who have ruled the country for most of its history. |
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But my adopted role as birdwoman of the Holme Valley is fiercely contested by my mother who feeds her birds almost religiously and with all manner of goodies. |
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The companies' respective customers have similar demographic and psychographic profiles and both foster fiercely loyal clientele who are passionate about their brands. |
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However, they may sometimes fiercely fight predators, especially when chicks are being defended, and have been capable of killing even lions in such confrontations. |
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To Dechen Wangmo, and all the fiercely dedicated ophthalmic staff of Bhutan, my gratitude for your hospitality and patience with a foreigner's curiosity about your customs. |
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Norway lobsters are scavengers and fiercely protective of their territory. |
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Too fiercely political at times for her routine, which was heavy on earnest rallying for social justice, but light on big laughs to balance the political preachiness. |
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Soon Numan had picked up a fiercely loyal fan militia called the Numanoids, who followed him with the obsessive tenacity that only sustained ridicule can foster. |
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Midland had also acquired the North of Scotland Bank in 1923 but the Aberdeen management had fiercely resisted any attempt to merge with Clydesdale. |
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The 1547 Injunctions against images were a more tightly drawn version of those of 1538, but they were more fiercely enforced, at first informally, and then by instruction. |
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Fiercely resistant to simplification, he seems to write long because what he wants us to understand is broad and deeply complex. |
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Fiercely independent, many Indians preferred to set up their own businesses, as street pedlars, entertainers and fortune-tellers. |
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Fiercely rare lamb chops were promptly and cheerfully redone to medium-rare, and their iffy-sounding mint sauce proved to be a tart-sweet demiglaze that didn't cloy. |
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Fiercely proud of his army service, his Black Watch cap with the famous red hackle always hung over the door of the family home in Alyth, Perthshire. |
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