Sentence examples for a bitter test of from inspiring English sources

Today's split comes after a bitter test of wills between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which was determined to reverse the production cuts of last year and allow the price of oil to settle at about $25 a barrel, compared with about $27.50 today and its recent high of $34 in early March.

They already run both departments.Britain will discover that it has a constitutional court in the form of the judicial committee of the Privy Council, an obscure body that will be called upon to adjudicate the inevitable and possibly bitter tests of strength between the various parliaments and assemblies.

He was required to say: 'I'll have a pint of bitter, please.' 'A test of nerve.' Big break: Tom and Viv, directed by Max Stafford-Clark in 1985.

Fighting a major polio outbreak in the midst of Syria's bitter civil war is a test of commitment and diplomacy.

I'm a bitter victim of the whole campaign.

Latin America has a bitter history of authoritarian rule.

His group is a bitter rival of SCIRI.

Or a bitter acknowledgment of her wealth?

It is a bitter turn of events.

Now comes a bitter dose of reality.

Same-field peer review would become a bitter arena of scientific contentions and inter-personal conflicts.