Sentence examples for bitter issue from inspiring English sources

Competition between New York and New Jersey in luring financial firms has long been a bitter issue dividing business and government leaders of the two states.

Resettlement is always a bitter issue in dam projects, and villagers often complain that officials do not fully deliver promised compensation and other benefits.

Even after Khadr was returned to Canada, itself a bitter issue in Canadian politics during his decade at Guantánamo, prison officials have denied efforts by journalists to interview Khadr.

The bitter issues at the heart of a decade of violence and political strife once again came to the fore.

Isolated skirmishes have already been reported along the disputed frontier.Even if there is a lull in the shooting war, there are many bitter issues to be settled.

Because casino taxes are one of the most bitter issues during this budget season, the McGreevey administration's actions have set off a variety of convoluted explanations.

And as subsequent statements by the two governments have made clear, the letter's contrite tone, while welcomed here, did not resolve the bitter issues raised by the incident.

Kosovo was Mrs. Clinton's third stop in a whirlwind round of Balkan diplomacy as the United States and the European Union have sought to grapple with some of the bitter issues that have continued to bedevil the region after NATO's interventions more than a decade ago.

"This crisis is emerging in the public's mind as a bitter, partisan issue," said Mark Baldassare, the survey's director.

Racial profiling complaints against the New Jersey State Police tripled in 1999, as publicity about the shooting of three unarmed minority men on the New Jersey Turnpike made the pattern of discrimination a bitter political issue.

The question of what land to keep or give up is Israel's most bitter political issue, and at that point a fence was a commitment no one was ready to make.