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Dartmouth is well known for its fierce school spirit and many traditions.
What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies .</ br >< p > The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull.
The film concludes with both of the fighters throwing their first punch simultaneously, but this time, they fight in the spirit of friendly competition rather than as fierce rivals.
Philogenes endures a fierce tempest that features the spirit of Discord, to reach an ensuing prosperous calm.
He dealt less frequently with politics than his fierce contemporary, Gillray, but commonly touching, in a rather gentle spirit, the various aspects and incidents of social life.
Capriati was also known for her fierce competitive spirit.
Armed with a fastball, slider, devastating forkball and a fierce competitive spirit, Morris was a five-time All-Star ( 1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1991 ), and played on four World Championship teams ( 1984 Tigers, 1991 Twins, and 1992 and 1993 with the Blue Jays ).
Known for his slight frame and fierce competitive spirit, Hershiser was nicknamed " Bulldog " by former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, who managed Hershiser during his time with the Dodgers.
Many Rajputs of Rajasthan are nostalgic about their past and keenly conscious of their genealogy, emphasizing a Rajput ethos that is martial in spirit, with a fierce pride in lineage and tradition.
Her Times obituary, by Charles Sinker, ended: “ Her close friends remember her as a fierce but fundamentally gentle warrior, a Bunyan-like soul on a lonely and constant quest for the real path of the spirit.
In contrast to these exchanges, during this period, he also cited Lionel Groulx who ironically-having written himself antisemitic statements under various pennanmes-exhorted French-Canadians to emulate the Jewish People in their fierce will for survival, their spirit of solidarity and their unassailable moral core.
Behind his irate dismissal of both, one discerns a fierce Calvinist spirit ; one sees a man summoning his epoch and himself to his own last judgment and finding no argument in either's defense, and, naturally, no grace.
Matt Devereaux ( Spencer Tracy ) is a ranch owner who has tried to raise his sons to carry on the fierce, hard-working Irish settlement spirit that helped make him a success.
Though he was raised in the spirit of the Unity of the Brethren, Slavata converted to Catholicism in 1597 and became a fierce advocate of the older faith.
She is known for her ability to " make or break " a restaurant with her fierce attention to detail and her adventurous spirit.

fierce and was
It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.
In these versions, when Ajax came to the Capharean Rocks on the coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a fierce storm, he himself was lifted up in a whirlwind and impaled with a flash of rapid fire from Athena in his chest, and his body thrust upon sharp rocks, which afterwards were called the rocks of Ajax.
The campaign included fierce debates ; Johnson's primary issue was the passage of the Homestead bill, which Haynes contended would facilitate abolition.
Alfonso was a fierce, violent man, a soldier and nothing else, whose piety was wholly militant.
He was a fierce opponent of anti-semitism and supported the unconditional acceptance and integration of the Jews in Europe.
After winning the Dutch Mixing Championships ( DMC ) in 1988, he was invited for The World Mix Championships in the London Royal Hall and won third place in a fierce competition.
The acceptance of modernist design into everyday life was the subject of publicity campaigns, well-attended public exhibitions like the Weissenhof Estate, films, and sometimes fierce public debate.
Competition with Microsoft was fierce.
The time was about 16: 30, and the two armies were in close contact across the whole four-mile ( 6 km ) front, from the skirmishing in the marshes in the south, through the vast cavalry battle on the open plain ; to the fierce struggle for Ramillies at the centre, and to the north, where, around the cottages of Offus and Autre-Eglise, Orkney and de la Guiche faced each other across the Petite Gheete ready to renew hostilities.
A popular legend at the time was of the Amazons, a tribe of fierce female warriors who socialized with men only for procreation and even removed one breast to become better warriors ( the idea being that the right breast would interfere with the operation of a bow and arrow ).
Trapped in a crossfire, the leading French ships were battered into surrender during a fierce three-hour battle, while the centre was able to successfully repel the initial British attack.
On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.
Nelson's first set of dispatches were captured when Leander was intercepted and defeated by Généreux in a fierce engagement off the western shore of Crete on 18 August 1798.
Competition between canners was fierce because profits were thin.
Following the Apostolic Age, there was fierce and often politicized debate in the early church on many interrelated issues.
Competition among the clippers was public and fierce, with their times recorded in the newspapers.
He was then troubled by the fierce conflicts between the Muladis of Badajoz and the Arabs of Seville.
However, where the insurgents dominated the routes by which the British tried to funnel reinforcements into the city, there was fierce fighting.
The most significant of these was the Schneider Cup races, where competition grew so fierce, only national governments could afford to enter.
Astronomers had believed for some time that parallax would provide the first accurate measurement of interstellar distances — in fact, in the 1830s there was a fierce competition between astronomers to be the first to measure a stellar parallax accurately.
A weak header from Ray Wilson handed a chance to Helmut Haller whose shot was not fierce but was on target and needed dealing with.

fierce and aroused
::" I wanted to learn about Christ – about the Old Testament, which had been his Bible, and the New Testament, which was the Bible about him ; about the history of the church, which had been founded on the faith that through him God had not only revealed his innermost nature and his purpose for the world, but had released into the world a fierce power to draw people into that nature and adapt them to that purpose …. No intellectual pursuit had ever aroused in me such intense curiosity, and much more than my intellect was involved, much more than my curiosity aroused.
His radical environmental ideas, which at that time in the GDR were not well known were far away from the issues raised by the delegates moved, and the polemical introduction aroused fierce resentment.
The column aroused fierce criticism.
As a theological author, Barnes's book The Rise of Christianity ( 1947 ) aroused such fierce opposition and criticism from more orthodox members of the Church that it was strongly suggested he should renounce his episcopal office, which Barnes refused to do.
Although he enjoyed overall popularity and public confidence, Zia's rehabilitation of some of the most controversial men in Bangladesh aroused fierce opposition from the supporters of the Awami League and veterans of the Mukti Bahini.

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