A pocket of fierce counterattack was surrounded and broken, but not without cost.

General Ortega ordered a fierce counterattack and more than 40 people were reported killed, with scores more wounded.

But later press reports said Government forces had recaptured part of the area in a fierce counterattack.

The forces had to fight back a fierce Japanese counterattack in the form of banzai charges.

Senator Dole mounted a fierce counterattack today.

The hospitals had bitterly opposed those cuts with advertising around the country and provoked a fierce counterattack from the Republican leadership.

It declared war on the government, and the Mexican Army swiftly responded with a fierce counterattack.

It was a short-lived triumph, for the following day the North Koreans recaptured the mountain in a fierce counterattack.

That assault sent Israeli forces wheeling into the West Bank in a fierce counterattack.

The Republican forces launched fierce counterattacks on 25 January and the next two days, but gains were temporary.