Sentences with phrase «of fierce attacks»

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«The 5 - Star Movement is the real winner of the election,» said SEL leader Nichi Vendola, who said that his coalition would have to deal with Grillo, who mixes fierce attacks on corruption with policies ranging from clean energy to free Internet.

A look at how five years of siege, increased airstrikes, a fierce ground operation, a string of evacuation deals and a suspected chemical attack led to the fall of the rebel stronghold in the Damascus suburbs.21 days ago

Although under fierce attack from conservative pundits and big business, supply management systems provide a fair return to farmers and a reasonably priced supply of fresh milk, eggs and poultry to food to consumers.

For perhaps more than any other philosopher of modernity Nietzsche espouses the fiercest version of iconoclasm, an attack on the image that, for sheer ferocity, has its only philosophical counterpart in Plato.

It has been said that whenever some older theologians got to a hard place they simply quoted a few lines of Wordsworth or Tennyson, thinking that ended the matter; or they made a few biblical citations as if that were the complete answer; or (at worst), when the attack was most fierce, they used the word «mystery» as a kind of «escape - hatch».

He was moved to fierce expostulations against an Alsatian priest, Jakob Wimpfeling, who had written a Little Book on Purity attacking the worldliness and self - indulgence of clergy, both those in the monasteries and the ordinary massing priests, and had specially attacked the Augustinians for accepting the well - known Sermon to the Eremites as written by St Augustine himself.

Weevils have attacked the plants in the past, damaging the local crop, but the biggest threats to supply are the lack of large - scale producers (most locals just grow a few plants for their own use) and hurricanes, which dump heavy rains and pack a punch with fierce winds that destroy the fragile plants.

Harry Kane could still be out as he races to return from an injury suffered against Bournemouth at the start of March, so it's likely that Dele Alli will be their fiercest attacking figure.

Francesco Totti hasn't been quite as prolific as the past few seasons, but at 38 - years - old he remains, albeit in shorter doses, one of the league's most dangerous attacking players, and Roma's fiercest threat by a mile.

In the years prior to the 2014 Gaza conflict, far left - wing and Islamist traditions came together and cross-fertilized each other in the context of the failure of the Israeli - Palestinian peace process, the Second Intifada, the Durban conference, the 9/11 attacks, and widespread and fierce public protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In fact, it took a fierce public reaction and backlash for the government to even make a U-turn on providing 9/11 first - responders with healthcare for the afflictions they got by helping in the aftermath of the attacks.

General Mike Jackson, who stepped down as head of the army earlier this year, has launched a fierce attack on the government for failing its troops.

9 January 2002: The white paper comes under fierce attack in two days of Lords debate on constitutional reform.

In a statement by its Director of Public Relations & Information, Air Commodore Dele Alonge, the Force says, «It is instructive to note that with the recent successes recorded by the military in the North East against the Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT), intelligence reports revealed that due to the fierce attack on the sect, the BHT elements are presently in disarray and looking for soft targets to strike especially military installations.»

The attack by the Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham is the fiercest assault yet on Mandelson's decision to publish his memoirs, as well as on the leadership style of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

For all his fierce partisan attacks on Republicans in Washington, Weiner was viewed as the most moderate in the field of a half - dozen Democrats looking to succeed Mayor Bloomberg.

A team of Syrian and American archaeologists found more than 1,200 clay sling bullets as well as the burned remains of administrative buildings, bakeries, and homes that were demolished during a fierce attack 5,500 years ago.

That monument has come under fierce attack these days — from postmodernists (to whom truth is subjective and cultural), from creationists (to whom truth is biblical), and from religion in general (where faith is often seen to compete with reason as the fount of ultimate answers).

Back then, biologists were struggling to learn how the fierce little warriors of the immune system — the white blood cells — know to attack invading pathogens but not the body itself.

The Shallows was a fierce shark attack flick with Blake Lively fighting for survival on a rock and when he works with Neeson, his films feel like throwbacks to 70's Clint Eastwood or Steve McQueen dramas, of tough guys playing cool cops.

The returning cast was joined by newcomer Daisy Ridley, who beat out fierce competition to take the principal role of Rey; BAFTA Rising Star Award winner John Boyega (Attack the Block, Imperial Dreams) as reluctant stormtrooper Finn; Emmy nominee Adam Driver (Lincoln, Girls) as the villainous Kylo Ren, and Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis, The Bourne Legacy) as Resistance pilot Poe Dameron.

Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter Paul Laverty, this movie tells the fictional story of Daniel Blake, a middle - aged widower in the North East who can't work or get benefits after a near - fatal heart attack, and the story is told with stark and fierce plainness: unadorned, unapologetic, even unevolved.

Soon everyone's problems are literally blown up when a deadly swarm of alien ships attacks the Enterprise during a routine dispatch, leaving the survivors stranded on a distant planet while others are held prisoner by the leader of the violent pack, a warlord named Krall (a fierce Idris Elba) who's searching for an artifact that is the missing puzzle piece he needs to finish building — what else?

A fierce debate over civic education in America's public schools has erupted in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Later, in a fierce attack on schools, Education Secretary Kirsty Williams accused some of putting pupils in for science exams that were too easy for them.

Clearly budget pressures are weighing on states and school districts, but there has also been a fierce attack on the value of class size reduction.

And the language thrown between the two is getting fierce, with both sides attacked for their perceived failures... May I be a voice of disgustingly calm (meerkattish) practicality?

Because they look fierce, they are usually cast in the bad guy roles of attack dogs.

While Rottweilers have a reputation for being fierce and are listed as one of the top breeds for causing fatal dog attacks, they actually are no more inclined to bite than any other breed.

Makassar was formely named Ujung Pandang the capital of South Sulawesi is the home to Bugis sailors, infamous for their fierce some attacks on European traders in the 16th and 17th centuries.

She wins by baiting and trapping and being frustrating and hitting lots of crouching fierces, but outside her A-Groove custom combo, she rarely strings more than two attacks together, and that's usually a jumping roundhouse kick followed by a crouching fierce punch.

Nintendo plans to release a free update on Dec 2, 2016 which includes a new area, the Den of Trials, containing 30 stages as well as two new outfits: Linebeck's costume allows players to see inside chests before opening them and Fierce Deity Armor offers powered up attacks and a sword beam which splits in four directions.

Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains captures the feel of the anime splendidly, and the action is fast and fierce.

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Her main attack involves hundreds of bullets that have homing capabilities, and her sub is a fierce swipe from this creepy huge claw that helms her bed - like chariot.

Einstein faced a little of that, but mainly scientific opposition and the attacks on him were far, far less fierce than those against followers of Galileo and Copernicus.

«I think because the hockey stick became an icon it's been subject to the fiercest of attacks really in the whole science of climate change,» he said.

Canadian immigration and refugee laws and the IRB's implementation of these laws have come under fierce attack for creating many substantive, procedural and inclusion barriers to access to justice for refugee claimants.

From helping you after a dog attack or truck accident in Wisconsin to defending your rights as a rider, the personal injury trial attorneys at Hupy & Abraham will be fierce advocates in your time of need.

On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the attack of the kick drum loop is fierce, while the sub-bass synth part underneath it lacks the push it has on systems with heavier low - end.