Sentence examples similar to bitter arm from inspiring English sources

The deal concluded weeks of bitter arm-wrestling between both sides.

In the midst of bitter armed conflict, Kiev and Moscow both claim to be whittling away at their arms-producing interdependence.

But the Lebanese army now fears that the blossoming Syrian camps in the Bekaa will yield the same, bitter fruit: armed groups supporting both the impoverished Free Syrian Army and the ever-more-powerful Sunni Muslim al-Nusra front and al-Qa'ida affiliates who are fighting to "liberate" Syria from Assad's government.

Pakistan and India are bitter rivals, both armed with nuclear weapons, who have fought three wars and share a disputed border.

She is considerably less open about her debt to her former boss Tracy Anderson, perhaps best known as Gwyneth Paltrow's trainer, with whom she is engaged in a bitter (super-toned) arms race.

Griezmann has become an honorary countryman, down to the accent and the flask of mate forever under his arm – that bitter "tea" beloved of Uruguayans and Argentinians.

At his home, the 15-year-old, with bandages covering his hands and his left arm, seemed bitter and angry at the boys who he said had set him on fire, though they all went there as friends.

This morning's Der Tagesspiegel shows Germany's coach Jürgen Klinsmann throwing up his arms in bitter disappointment.

And four years ago a bitter dispute between the arms-length company responsible for bringing trams to Edinburgh and its main contractor brought the whole project to a halt for months.

It had recently fought and lost a bitter divorce from its consulting arm, now named Accenture.

Despite all that, he could end up like Connecticut's Jim Calhoun, fighting the N.C.A.A.'s enforcement arm until the bitter end, defiant all the way to the gallows.