Sentence examples for and in the bitter from inspiring English sources

By then Vice-President, he delivered this state's large bloc of delegates to Gerald Ford, giving him the nomination over Reagan by a handful of votes, and, in the bitter opinion of Reaganites, singlehandedly delaying the arrival of the Reagan Revolution in Washington by 4 years.

The relationship between the public and the private is what this novel is all about, and in the bitter struggle between the Federalists (led by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams) and the Jeffersonian Republicans, fortunes rise and fall as scandals envelop principals on either side.

There are intimations of how Minot might have given her book some bite, in passages about Benjamin's opportunism ("He wasn't going to pretend that he didn't like the fact that she had money," he thinks of Vanessa) and in the bitter absurdity of Kay's equating her only half-appreciated erotic services with "worship".

We touched down on its deck, the dark blue of the polar waters churning below, and, in the bitter cold, the crew's faces were almost invisible behind helmets and scarves.

Politico, April 22 , 2011 The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008.

She goes to funerals in the heat of summer, in the driving rain, and in the bitter cold.

The tanks for the poultry and horses were filled and steaming in the bitter air.

It has not been possible in recent months to verify the many charges and countercharges in the bitter war between the government and the Tamil Tigers.

He grew up in the north of Afghanistan and fought in the bitter civil war of the 1990s.

But after a largely peaceful day of speeches and chanting in the bitter January cold, a small group of protesters attacked police with flares, fireworks, sticks and fire extinguishes as they tried to breach the parliament building.

He gets beyond black and white in the bitter debates over human environmental stewardship, presenting nature as a dynamic, living entity that is constantly changing and adapting to different forces.