fierce struggle

collocation in English

meaningsoffierceandstruggle

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fierce
adjective
uk
/fɪəs/us
/fɪrs/
physically violent ...
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struggle
noun[C]
uk
/ˈstrʌɡ.əl/us
/ˈstrʌɡ.əl/
a very difficult task that you can do only by making a ...
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(Definition offierceandstrugglefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Afiercestruggleensued, during which three members of staff and two prisoners sustained injuries.
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Because the goanna regularly eats snakes (often involving afiercestrugglebetween the two), they are often said to be immune to snake venom.
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Their coming into contact with each other thus set in place a context for afiercestrugglefor political and cultural dominance.
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The end of each presidential period represented, afiercestrugglebetween the incumbent president and other potential candidates for the presidency.
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Afiercestruggleensued, during which three members of staff and two prisoners sustained injuries.
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Some of the more daring of the men jumped up on the footway and afiercestruggletook place.
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This, too, is a remarkable feature of a problem of such potentially controversial a character which has been the subject offiercestruggleand contention for centuries.
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Thisfiercestruggleis nothing new.
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He is handing on the cross—it is a fiery cross in these days—to his successor in thefiercestrugglewhich is being waged against a crooked cross.
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The 54th managed to reach the parapet, but after afiercestruggle, including hand-to-hand combat, they were forced back.
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The two clubs would go on to afiercestruggleas they challenged each other for domestic supremacy throughout the 1970s.
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Afiercestruggleensued, made worse by a blinding snowstorm on the battlefield.
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After a brief butfiercestruggle, the pirates, including some women and children, fled inland.
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As this was normally a post awarded to a practising architect, he was only appointed after afiercestruggleand much criticism.
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This feature was achieved on the part of several avant-garde architects in the early thirties in afiercestruggleagainst the existing municipal bye-laws.
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Because the goanna regularly eats snakes (often involving afiercestrugglebetween the two), they are often said to be immune to snake venom.
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Among the candidates came afiercestruggle, which lasted about five years.
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Despite all these constraints, however, national health insurance passed in 1966 and, after fierce struggles in the provinces, was fully implemented by 1971.
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The story goes that after the nectar was discovered, afiercestruggleensued between the demigods and the demons to obtain the nectar for the attainment of immortality.
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Loveland's early efforts to build a railroad were hampered by a lack of funds, as well as afiercestrugglefor control of the railroad itself.
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