But this memory also encompasses the fierce left-right confrontations of the 1930's, Germany's wartime occupation and the 1968 anti-government student movement.

Those fierce confrontations, duels of will and wit, wars of strength.

It was a fierce confrontation with King Paul I and the royal family that led to the fall of the right-wing government.

The fierce confrontation continued all that after- noon, farmers with their backs to the wall defending themselves against a bureaucracy with its back to several walls.

Kabylie has been the setting for many fierce confrontations.

The election was characterized by fierce confrontations not only between the governing side and the opposition, but also between the different proletarian parties.

Algeria and Egypt are wrapped in fierce confrontations with militants, who are excluded from the political dialogue there.

Mr. Noone seems to be under the impression that the audience will nod off if each and every scene doesn't boil to a moment of fierce confrontation.

And it also began what could become a fierce confrontation with the Legislature, particularly with the Republicans whose votes would be needed to override the veto.

Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan was shot and killed in a fierce confrontation while commanding his forces from a howdah.