Sentence examples for bitter choice from inspiring English sources

Like millions of others, she faces a bitter choice.

The existence of murderous opposition, Mr. Malloch Brown said, leaves United Nations officials with a bitter choice: increase security markedly and decrease the ease of interaction between United Nations personnel and the Iraqis they are pledged to help, or continue a policy of openness with an unacceptable risk of casualties.

After militants burned down his house outside Damascus in late 2013, Moustafa* faced a bitter choice: "Either join the fight or have your silence taken to mean support for the other side," he says.

"Zoo's Bitter Choice: To Save Some Species, Letting Others Die" ("The Animal Lifeboat" series, front page, May 28) reports debate over exhibition versus conservation at zoos, even though the perspectives are not independent.

"Faustus in Africa!," their 1995 adaptation of the Faust story, resonated with undertones of the bitter choices being made in post-apartheid South Africa.

Doing nothing is no longer an option, for it leads to three bitter choices in the near future: crippling levels of payroll taxation, significantly reduced benefits for Social Security recipients, or a crushing burden of public debt for generations to come.

" 'Smile, Nola, Smile!' calls on New Yorkers to remember their proven capacity for achievement, the better to prepare for the hard work, the bitter choices, the probably unequal sacrifices that lie ahead".

What's left is a stark, bitter, ugly choice: the current system, in all its ugliness and stupidity, thrashing around as it dies, or the void.

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What has happened now is the bitter fruit of her choice.

But her bitter take on this choice comic role is hammed up by Vaudevillian sound effects and her lines are nearly inaudible during the storm scene.