Many paintings in this early field, including Elaine de Kooning's scrappy Bullfight, 1960, and Joan Mitchell's magisterial Ladybug, 1957, hint pointedly at these doyennes» fierce struggle for acceptance without any asterisk. (artforum.com)
Changes in federal rules usually emerge, when they do, from fierce struggles among competing interest groups that rage behind the high - flown verbiage of public occasions. (sciencemag.org)
As he projected, «There will be fiercer struggles over scarce resources, starker divisions along factional lines.» (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)