Sentence examples for bitter land from inspiring English sources

So the chance of solving the country's bitter land dispute remains slim.

Jonathan Miller sums up the British for me: "This mean and bitter land".

Its name (meaning "Bitter Land") is allegedly derived from the fierce resistance of its Saxon inhabitants against Charlemagne and the Franks, but it may refer to the relatively poor soil and often rugged hilly terrain.

The convoy of vehicles rumbled into western Kenya's Cherangani Hills, a region of thick forests and bitter land conflicts.

Having already experienced their own bitter land battle following the fall of the dictatorship, they remain relatively optimistic.

The United States has a long history of bitter land disputes, from range wars in the old West to broken treaties with American Indians.

Perhaps the most extraordinary facet of this unique construction, built on land at the very nexus of the bitterest land dispute of modern times, is that it appears to have swathed itself in a cloak of current affairs invisibility.

It must have taken quite an effort to generalize the entire Mestizo race as sore losers who are still bitter about land that was taken from their ancestors a hundred years ago.

Top Cree chiefs negotiated in secret with the Quebec premier, Bernard Landry, to bury a long, bitter conflict over land rights.

Like many locals, she was still bitter about the land that Hansteel had appropriated during its various expansions.

The policy worked, but after Houphouët's death in 1993 and the economic downturn, there were bitter disputes over land allocations.