Sentence examples for bitter act of from inspiring English sources

This was described as "a bitter act of surrender could ever come our way".

Highlighting the self-appointed comforter-in-Chief's propensity for the kiss, the man famous for never reflecting and never looking back perpetrates this bitter act of false intimacy on two discernibly-transformed, all-too-young Iraq veterans at the White House just after helicoptering in from the Military Academy.

But they wear rose-tinted spectacles: previous backer Whitbread is a brewer, and arguably a cappuccino is more helpful than a pint of bitter to the act of reading.

During the bitter battles over the Embargo Act of 1807, Webster called on the parties to "renounce their present warfare, and unite on some general points of policy". The United States has more than achieved the cultural independence Webster dreamed of.

In their last-minute scramble for votes, Mayor Sharpe James and his opponent in Tuesday's election, Councilman Cory Booker, dashed through this waterlogged city today in the final act of a bitter and closely contested race that has drawn national attention.

Signing with an agency is frequently an act of faith, sometimes with bitter results.

"The Scientists" is an act of love — a circumspect, often bitter, always studious love — and thus an act of both filial piety and defiance.

The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 evolved from the bitter experience of the Depression, when American banking was in shambles.

What is beyond doubt is that this decivilizing act of destruction leaves observers with a bitter taste of irresponsibility and meaninglessness.

The bitter is knowing and seeing the cost that such an act of bravery requires.

This declaration did not come about through an act of generosity or stirrings of conscience over the bitter fate of the Jewish people.