Sentence examples for bitter need from inspiring English sources

As an Indian this could prove to be the balm I'm in bitter need of". asks Sanjay Ziddi.

In yet another instance of her favorite metaphor, she defends "the bitter need of the few to protect themselves against the many, or rather to protect the island of freedom they have come to inhabit against the surrounding sea of necessity".

The Russian cry for a Second Front was always a cry of bitterest need, and now that the Second Front has come, it is only fitting that the Allies in the West should recognise the scale of their obligation to Russia's efforts on the Eastern front.

Bitter greens need sweet or fatty counterpoints like fruit, a buttery cheese or the meat of game birds, to keep the salad from tasting dull.

Young wines often taste bitter and need time for the tannins to join with other compounds in order to form long polymers.

But does the nation's capital of artisanal bitters really need another nostalgia-soaked outpost for herb muddling?

After the financial collapse of 2008, workers and retirees in the Netherlands took the bitter medicine needed to rebuild their collective nest eggs quickly, with higher contributions from workers and benefit cuts for pensioners.

The international community would reject the Israeli move, leaving the Palestinians with more or less the same non-viable, legally disputed squiggles of desert land they have now.The Palestinian leadership, meanwhile, is unwilling to make the bitter sacrifices needed to get to a peace agreement their constituents will undoubtedly hate.

In vermouth you have wine for the skeleton, in bitters you need sugar for that.

Embedded in our language are ideas which implicitly suggest that part of 'manning up' (or, if you like, not 'acting like a girl') involves keeping a stiff upper lip, maintaining the illusion of dominance and strength, and taking life's setbacks on the chin – until the bitter end if needs be.

I help them to understand that it's not always more important to be right: For many men (and women), arguing to the bitter end and a need to win supersedes everything.