1.   But organizers and workers said in off-site interviews that the company had put up a ferocious fight.

2.   His pictures of desperate hand-to-hand combats and ferocious animal fights suggest a vision of life as a state of eternal warfare, a symbiotic struggle between predator and prey.

3.   None of the beneficiaries of these federal handouts will relinquish their subsidies without a ferocious fight.

4.   For many of those involved in the fighting, the movie was an accurate depiction overall of the ferocious fight, even though it was a Hollywood interpretation.

5.   His career in Congress is peppered, for example, with ferocious fights on social issues with Sen. Ted Kennedy, the liberal Democratic icon from Massachusetts.

6.   His ferocious fight to maintain his independence from that Being.

7.   The Taliban has been locked in a ferocious fight with rival forces since seizing the capital in September.

8.   The Taliban religious army was waging a ferocious fight to retain control of a strategic provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan, opposition officials said Sunday.