But the fiercest response came from the Senate's longest-serving member, Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
The Colorado-based 211s is rated as one of the fiercest such groups operating in US jails.
Mr Watts's retirement will spark off one of the fiercest congressional battles in the country.
Some of the fiercest damage occurred in Adairsville, a town some 60 miles northwest of Atlanta.
The position in towns like Nasiriya, which have seen the fiercest fighting, is unknown.
Clemens, one of the fiercest right-handers in history, smacked Piazza in the head earlier in the season.
Sheryl Sandberg , COO of Facebook, and Meryl Streep , the fiercest Oscar contender there ever was.
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The fiercest competition has been for a limited number of models made by Martin, Fender, Gibson, Rickenbacker, Gretsch and Epiphone.
Yet even the fiercest secularist cannot deny that Mr Erdogan's government has been a smashing success compared with what went before.
The Labour MP has been one of the fiercest critics of tax avoidance by companies such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon.
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Massachusetts is meant to be one of the fiercest protectors of civil liberties (though those could also extend to Mrs Corneau's child).
The budget's introduction is likely to herald one of the fiercest political fights Washington has seen in years, waged on multiple fronts.
And the competition may be the fiercest in the world of retail.
The fiercest attack on neuroeconomics, and indeed behavioural economics, has come from two economists at Princeton University, Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer.
And he has long been among the fiercest proponents of campaign-finance reform.
Another explanation is that Baigent and his colleagues have been the fiercest proponents of the idea that statin drugs work solely by lowering cholesterol.
One of the fiercest critics of the football bosses, Juca Kfouri, a leading sports journalist, thinks it may just pass without being watered down.
But, as Robert Frank, an economist now at Cornell University, has pointed out, even the fiercest critics do not get their brakes checked every morning.
He took the helm as one of the fiercest storms the Catholic Church has faced in decades - the scandal of child sex abuse by priests - was breaking.
Besides amassing five world championships and countless historical achievements, Jeter has unequivocally proven to be the ultimate teammate, consummate professional and one of the fiercest competitors in the game.
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Since the French-led mission began in mid-January, soldiers from Chad have been involved in some of the fiercest fighting and are credited with some of the biggest successes to date.
The fiercest battle now seems to be for second.
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The fiercest arguments will probably come over qualified-majority voting.
Michael Carter-Williams had a chance to win it for Syracuse, but he missed a shot just before the buzzer and the fiercest rivalry in Big East history was extended for another 5 minutes.
So while the median damage from Category 5 storms has been only somewhat larger in dollar terms than from weaker Category 4 hurricanes, the sample size of the fiercest storms is too small to be useful.
They, too, danced lightly but dangerously together, and the motion led them, as if hypnotized, into a garden, where they shared one of the fiercest and most fondant kisses in the history of movies, or of mouths.
Since 1990 some of the fiercest confrontations have been over an oil development near Lubicon Lake, Alberta, a golf course expansion at Oka, Quebec, a provincial park in Ipperwash, Ontario, a ski resort at Sun Peaks, British Columbia, and military flights over Labrador.
Even one of the fiercest critics of CEO compensation, Harvard Law School's Lucian Bebchuk, reports in recent research with Alma Cohen and Charles Wang that golden parachutes do motivate CEOs to find merger-and-acquisition opportunities and, as a result, to extract more takeover premiums for shareholders.
The Boston-New York rivalry is one of the fiercest in sports, and the teams had their heated moment in the first meeting this season, when Anthony was suspended a game by the NBA for following Garnett to the Celtics' team bus to confront him after they exchanged words during the game.
By the same token, many of the Republicans' fiercest deficit hawks say they will not allow the debt ceiling to be raised unless they secure swingeing budget cuts.
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