Sentence examples for bitter confrontation from inspiring English sources

Either option could provoke bitter confrontation.

Instead it risks becoming a moment of bitter confrontation or boycotts.

That doesn't mean she's inevitably headed toward a bitter confrontation with the left.

Or how Donna lets a bitter confrontation segue straight into "The Winner Takes It All".

I found consolation in unmasking lust and loss, by staging a bitter confrontation between symbols.

But holding down costs at The Washington Post led to a bitter confrontation with the mechanical unions.

Weeks of bitter confrontations with Democrats and moderate Republicans will have yielded no discernible gains for conservatives – except, perhaps, for the display of power that have proven they can still exert over the embattled speaker of the House.

Then, for much of last year he had a series of bitter confrontations with Suzanne M. Mondo, the Brooklyn judge who was specially assigned to oversee about 30 of his cases.

The states have generally responded by dragging their feet, forcing bitter confrontations with the courts that waste time and money and pit one part of the electorate against another.

By then, the Pentagon's focus had shifted to the wars against Islamic insurgents, and many critics, including Mr. Bush's first Defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, and then Mr. Gates, began slashing spending for the F-22, leading to unusually bitter confrontations with Air Force officials.

Most of the scenes run five minutes or more, composed in long takes that follow a restless array of characters through apartments and corridors, alleys and courtyards, train stations and industrial wastelands — but the kinetic cinematography (by Fan Chao) freezes into tense, painterly tableaux of bitter confrontations pregnant with violence.