Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are sprinting towards the finish line of the most bitter, divisive and fear-tainted US presidential election of modern times, with polls showing Clinton has the edge.
The lower house of Parliament gave its final approval to a bill legalizing the sale and leasing of farmland for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, a measure that set off bitter debates and fears that foreigners would buy up Russian farmland.
He ended with this thought: "Things like traumatic stress and anxiety and tension and sorrow and depression and hate and bitter, selfish anger and fear start to lift away.
Her convent is badly shaken when the prioress, rather than offering her daughter nuns an example of acceptance in the face of mortality, dies with delirium, bitter anger and abject fear.
Since the play-off final of 2004, back when Iain Dowie was still cherished at Selhurst Park, too many of Palace's biggest occasions have been played to a backdrop of bitter desperation, seized by fear of the true implications of failure.
Not surprisingly, Bradford's account begins at the beginning and goes all the way to the end, encompassing the subject's childhood in New York and East Hampton; her parents' bitter divorce; her subsequent fear of poverty; the suggestion that the young Jacqueline's passion for her father, John (Black Jack Bouvierr, a heavy drinker and compulsive womanizer, was nearly incestuous.
After centuries of bitter experience, Latin Americans fear civilian leaders who take and hold power indefinitely.
The attack – the third alleged Israeli strike on Iranian forces in Syria in the past month – further ratchets up the tensions between the bitter enemies, which observers fear could soon boil over into a new Middle Eastern conflict.
Brace yourself, then, for a darkening portrait of a blighted clan failing to deal with ruinous addictions, bitter memories and suppressed fears, generational conflicts and sibling rivalries.
Those businesses feared a bitter trade war like the one the Mexicans waged over trucking, which imposed stiff tariffs on American goods headed south.
