Sentence examples for bitter contests from inspiring English sources
This being Turkey, where seemingly trifling matters can become bitter contests over identity, mock-ups leaked to the news media have caused quite a stir, eliciting passionate reactions from the secular and the pious, and from those who support the traditions of modern Turkey and others who are nostalgic for the days of the Ottoman Empire.
Both sides have turned this into an excessively bitter contest.
A sometimes bitter contest between Obama and Clinton produced the narrowest of victories for Obama.
Sinn Fein and the SDLP will face their third bitter contest in North Belfast.
It has been a bitter contest, repeatedly described by analysts as "historic" and "presidential" in nature.
The often bitter contest is being described locally as the most important election for decades.
Elected president in 1998, after a bitter contest, and re-elected in 2002.
A bitter contest between north and south could quickly emerge, both on the battlefield and on the global diplomatic stage.
And his opponent's Golkar party has not recovered from the bitter contest to win its presidential nomination.
The bitter contest to replace retiring Senator Christopher Dodd pits the charm-free, experienced public servant against the splashy business executive.
