So far, she has refused to budge from her judgment that independent inquiries were unwarranted under the law, even in the face of ferocious criticism leveled at her during Congressional hearings.

Criticism Within Party While his economists were distancing themselves from his program, Mr. Gorbachev also faced increasingly ferocious criticism from hard-liners.

The FA initiative drew ferocious criticism from Fifa's second-most senior politician, Julio Grondona of Argentina.

"Once Upon a Country" is not only a celebration of Palestinian national life, it is also a criticism of it - a ferocious criticism.

The Repton boy's horror at Churchill's anti-Bolshevist campaign had turned into a more adult and less ferocious criticism.

By using politically correct imagery in his turn of phrase, Focu manages to express ferocious criticism by making his point sound like a compliment to the subject.

In the 1628 parliament he took part in the ferocious criticisms of Roger Mainwaring.

But criticism, however ferocious, should never deter us from focussing on the basics: telling the story accurately and fairly, testing it against a wide range of opinions and challenging all those opinions with rigour.

The company was responding to a week's worth of ferocious criticism.

That decision followed a week of ferocious criticism.