In Chinese culture, these qualities were attributed to a fiercer animal, the wolf. |
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As well as bringing milder winters and hotter summers, warmer weather could trigger more rain, fiercer winds and more frequent storms. |
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The wind grew fiercer, sending leaves and twigs whirling around in the air. |
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Unlike chimeras or hippogriffs, dragons were much stronger, fiercer, and generally harder to kill. |
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I know for a fact I could stand to be kinder, more generous, fiercer in cleaving to the good, true and beautiful. |
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The intimidating look from Feror grew fiercer as he smirked with a devious smile. |
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Increasing globalisation makes for fiercer competition between agricultural producer countries. |
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In a fast-moving market environment with ever fiercer competition, brand identity is a major factor for success. |
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And the competition for those jobs is, if anything, fiercer and less dignified than that for the top jobs. |
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The goddess cults eventually centred around Durga, the consort of Shiva, in her fiercer aspect. |
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Major storm events strike harder and more often, because warming oceans create conditions for fiercer hurricanes. |
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Competition has never been fiercer which explains why the free advice provided by the forum experts is so widely sought after. |
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If this report is adopted, I fear that there will be even fiercer criticism from the public. |
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The director followed the fiercer stuff of his 1989 classic Henry V with this kinder, gentler, but no less effective production of a Stratfordian comedy. |
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Her accents were pretty flawless, even in the most emotionally fraught scenes, but when you are in a class of your own, the critics are that much fiercer. |
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As babies grow bigger and fiercer, they contribute more mess and filth than llamas herded into your living room, and yet they're so sniffy about dirt. |
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It was a fiercer war, and it took place after the establishment of the United Nations and after we had decided that there would be no more wars. |
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Instead of coddling inefficient incumbents through this difficult period, the world's governments need to expose them to fiercer competition. |
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Despite growth and fiercer competition, however, much ecoindustry potential remains unrealised. |
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In my riding an individual clipped the ears of a dog so that the dog would look fiercer. |
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Yet if you observe men you will see there are men who are fiercer than tigers and more poisonous than cobras. |
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Even a good educational qualification does not automatically guarantee them a job, as competition for employment has become fiercer. |
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Lenerengo, as usual, forgot everything else in the fiercer pleasure of berating her spouse. |
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A few years later, following a rebellion against Magnus' authority in the Isles, he launched another, fiercer, expedition. |
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While the Jurchens were fewer in number, they were fiercer and better fighters. |
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To reap the benefits of the Internal Market and to meet the challenge of fiercer competition, entrepreneurs should be encouraged to innovate and to internationalise. |
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Every year, we invest considerable funds in poster researc because dependable planning and monitoring data are becoming more and more significant in the ever fiercer intermedia rivalry. |
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One of the fiercer battles was over the level of the memorial. |
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Meanwhile, the competition to attract inward investment is getting fiercer and fiercer: low-wage countries, such as Vietnam, Pakistan and the Philippines, have made a big jump up the table. |
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Following the warpath left by 2008's critically acclaimed Conquer, Omen is a sign of Soulfly becoming an even fiercer, fierier and more furious metallic monster, seven albums into their storied career. |
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But the right sounds much fiercer toward the illegals, blaming them for crime and demanding harsher measures against them and more peremptory expulsion. |
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As a result, competition between two top Russian producers of containerboard Arkhangelsk Pulp-and-Paper Plant and Kotlas Pulp-and-Paper Plant became fiercer. |
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Jonathan Meades might be fiercer, Iain Sinclair more atmospheric, Owen Hatherley more romantic, but Keiller often appears the worldliest and most penetrating. |
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America decries any wording, however mealy-mouthed, that could increase governments' control over content. A fiercer row is brewing about the rules for online businesses. |
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And that fury, it seems, is only going to get fiercer. |
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Competition had been fiercer, markets had proved more volatile, there was much more that governments needed to do to regulate and manage them than the prevailing orthodoxy suggested at the time. |
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They are also facing ever fiercer competition at home and abroad, which makes them increasingly sensitive to costs including the costs of regulation and tax. |
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If the oil companies' predictions that our energy needs will mainly be met by using fossil fuels come true, there will be fiercer competition for these fuels. |
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In a value-added economy where competition is becoming fiercer every day, companies' success depends on their ability to stand out from the crowd and offer original goods and services. |
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Migratory effects aside, the arrival of European products is making competition fiercer, causing difficulties for farmers who often have neither the financial nor the technical resources needed to compete. |
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Dell suffered because Hewlett Packard became a fiercer competitor. |
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This is not true because in today's international energy market, the prices have increased significantly in recent years and the competition among the buyers are much fiercer than that among the exporters. |
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In the current economic context, with competition growing ever fiercer, companies need to be able to take advantage of new technologies and innovation. |
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This rivalry is even fiercer when it comes to foreign policy-and Indian development assistance is very much related to serving India's political and economic interests. |
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This is especially true against the background of the need for action due to the demographic change already noticeable today and the ever fiercer competition with trade and industry. |
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On top of this, the sector has to face ever fiercer competition from restructured US rivals and new entrants into the market coming from the Far East and South America. |
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That is going to result in fiercer competition and growth in the business sector, creation of new jobs and higher valorization of the researchers' labor and know-how. |
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