Party based combat: Engage in
fierce battles with your party against a variety of foes.
Some officials also say principals have grown gun - shy from
fierce battles with permanent teachers — who are rarely fired and even then, can spend years on the payroll as their cases wind through a byzantine appeals process, as The Times reported in May.
Laws supported the idea of free schools before the Tories did but fought
fierce battles with Gove over the programme's scale.
The discount retailer, locked in
a fierce battle with Amazon.com (amzn) to shorten the time it takes to get customers» packages to their homes, last week acquired Parcel for an undisclosed amount «smaller than previous acquisitions» Walmart has made this year (which include Bonobos, Moosejaw, and Modcloth), the company said in a blog.
It is in
a fierce battle with Amazon for smart speaker market share.
At the low - end, a new wave of low - cost Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi are taking away market share, while on the high - end Samsung is locked in
a fierce battle with Apple.
In what many believe to be his finest song, «Desperados Under the Eaves,» Zevon sings about
his fierce battle with alcoholism and reckons with a judgment from beyond:
As predicted, it was
a fierce battle with many loyal fans on both sides.
Friends and family remembered Lauren Morelle, daughter of Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, who lost
a fierce battle with breast cancer last month.
Mr. Ashitey, the former Greater - Accra Regional Minister, is himself in a bitter and
fierce battle with Dr. Zanetor Agyeman - Rawlings, the eldest foreign - educated daughter of former President Jerry John Rawlings and his wife and partner - in - crime Nana Konadu Agyeman - Rawlings.
Mr Blenkinsop secured a majority of 2,268, at the 2015 election, up from 1,677 five years earlier, but faces
a fierce battle with the Conservatives to retain the seat again.
Thomas's mother is now the subject of a deeply poignant film, «Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman,» that chronicles
her fierce battle with kidney disease in the final years of her life, both celebrating her humanity and laying bare her struggles.
American and Allied Forces are in
a fierce battle with German troops, who
A major climate scientist, his colleague and lover, an Arctic scientist, wage
fierce battle with his twin sister, a publicist for the energy industry, and her husband, a lobbyist, over scientific truth and an inherited wilderness estate.
Born without hands, and facing
a fierce battle with cancer in his teens, the now 20 - year - old's latest contender is college.
«With new form factors entering the marketplace next year to entice consumers, smartphone manufacturers will find themselves locked in
a fierce battle with one another as they jostle to win market share for their new smartphone models featuring dual - edge curved and foldable AMOLED displays.»
Not exact matches
«It's still a challenging environment,
with fierce battles for market share,» says Bonnie Riggs, NPD's restaurant industry analyst.
And
with Facebook and Snapchat locked in a
fierce battle for users and ad dollars, the familiar look of Instagram's latest feature did not go unnoticed by the creators of the original disappearing - photos app.
Up until now, the carriers have waged a
fierce battle to win customers
with the new unlimited data plans.
In Indonesia, the region's biggest economy and most populous country
with more than 250 million people, it's in a
fierce battle for customers
with local app Go - Jek, which has backing from Google and Tencent.
Nintendo faces an uphill
battle in the coming year,
with fierce competition from the newly - released Sony Playstation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One systems, which both saw high sales during the holidays and are technologically superior.
And unlike Comcast, which has little direct competition on the cable side, AT&T's wireless business is in the midst of a
fierce competitive
battle with the three other major wireless carriers.
With no obvious successor to Lauer in tow, and considering the up - and - down year for Today, NBC undoubtedly want to lock its longtime co-host in for another two - year stretch, especially considering the show's fierce ratings battle with rival ABC's Good Morning Amer
With no obvious successor to Lauer in tow, and considering the up - and - down year for Today, NBC undoubtedly want to lock its longtime co-host in for another two - year stretch, especially considering the show's
fierce ratings
battle with rival ABC's Good Morning Amer
with rival ABC's Good Morning America.
Both companies have cooperated
with Korean giant Samsung, which is waging a
fierce IP legal
battle with Apple and is its main rival for global hegemony in smartphones and tablets.
But the commitment to a flawed protagonist — who is engaged in spiritual
battles as
fierce as any physical ones he's in
with criminals — makes Daredevil extra compelling.
The deal was sealed after a
fierce takeover
battle with Victorian co-operative Murray Goulburn and NSW - based Bega Cheese.
Murray Goulburn is locked in a
fierce $ 500 million - plus takeover
battle for control of WCB
with Canadian dairy company Saputo.
Australia's largest privately owned milk processor, United Dairy Power, has backed Canadian dairy giant Saputo's bid for control of Warrnambool Cheese & Butter in a
fierce $ 500 million - plus takeover
battle with Victorian farmer co-operative Murray Goulburn.
The 27 - year - old had been linked
with a move to Manchester United, but it seems that their
fierce rivals have won the
battle for his signature.
The Minnesota Daily ran an elegy that began: «Tribute to him, who, in the first fair flush / Of Glory, won upon a fatal field / Fell, hurt, before the
fierce contested rush / And joy of worthy
battle; fell to yield --» The Minnesota Alumni Weekly anointed him «a hero
with all the blaze of glory and spectacular accomplishment which is due heroic martyrdom.»
Wednesday controlled the first half and easily dominated the
battle of
fierce sponsors, conquering the JustEat.co.uk on Derby's kits
with «AZERBAIJAN LAND OF FIRE.»
Paula Radcliffe believes that both Mary Keitany and Tirunesh Dibaba are capable of breaking her marathon world record of 2:15:25,
with the British running great predicting a
fierce battle for this year's Virgin Money London Marathon title.
The 2013/14 campaign has undoubtedly been the most competitive in last few years -
with less than half a season left, there are still
fierce battles being fought in both top and bottom of a table.
Perez, though, is embroiled in arguably the most
fiercest team - mate
battle of the season
with Esteban Ocon,
with both drivers guilty of not fully maximising their results so far for their reluctance to play nice
with each other.
I have been involved in a
fierce political struggle for the past 12 yrs of my life, admittedly it was one of the
fiercest battles fought psychologically, emotionally and
with one's integrity.
Mr. Towns is locked in a
fierce three - way primary
battle with Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and City Councilman Charles Barron.
Plaid have a deep loathing of the LibDems,
with whom they have had some
fierce battles.
So, this is not entirely a shock, although I'm told the competition for HTC's nod was
fierce,
with both Assembylman Richard Brodsky (who fought for a labor nod in the public authorities reform bill) and Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice
battling extremely hard for the endorsement.
She's engaged in a
fierce Democratic primary
battle with Sen. Bernie Sanders, but the new ad underscores her new effort to present herself as the best candidate to stop Trump from reaching the White House.
Shah may offer a fresh perspective at a time when parliamentarians stand accused of being out of touch
with reality and the needs of their constituents, but she has a
fierce battle ahead of her.
Warren,
with her
fierce critiques of Wall Street financiers, is a darling of the progressive left — her backing may help smooth over the lingering tensions from Clinton's hard - fought primary
battle with Sanders.
But the
battle is at its
fiercest in the Catskills, where major players such as Caesars and Empire Resorts — controlled by a Malaysian gambling giant — are competing
with New York City developers such as Muss Development to nab the license.
Should she quit the Commons in order to take up the role, there is likely to be a
fierce battle for her south London seat, which was retained at the last election
with a majority of more than 21,000.
«The insurgents were successfully repelled by the security forces after
fierce gun
battle with profuse tear smoke application.
With that, he sacked the late Segun Agagu from the Alagbaka State House, despite a hideous rigging, even if that victory came only after months of
fierce legal
battles.
The selection is set to be a
fierce battle between Momentum activists, trade unionists and Labour centrists, who control the local party's executive, though Lewisham Momentum is currently rife
with internal divisions.
Udoessien was said to have been abducted from his palace by the assailants after a
fierce gun
battle with the security agents drafted to provide security in the volatile area.
But
with smaller parties standing to gain political influence,
battles over issues such as the regulation of gene - edited organisms and how to cut greenhouse - gas emissions could grow
fiercer.
With lucrative contracts at stake, a
fierce battle is raging between European companies over how to replace Chernobyl.
The discovery of some of the oldest human remains in North America got archaeologists excited but soon launched them into a
fierce legal
battle with local Native Americans seeking to protect their cultural legacy.