Sentence examples for bitter period from inspiring English sources

The most bitter period of their campaign was in South Carolina, when Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton repeatedly challenged Mr. Obama's credentials and credibility.

The Politburo knew there would be a war-after-the-war, a bitter period of political maneuvering in which the United States launched covert military operations and a trade embargo against Vietnam.

That was a really bitter period, and it turned us against foreign-policy adventures deeply, and it was not until the Gulf War that we were able to come out of that.

Either way, the episodes shed light on a bitter period in Mr. McCain's life after the 2000 presidential election, when he was, at least in policy terms, drifting away from his own party.

Gilbert refers frequently to his "bitter period," which stretched through the summer and involved a lot of sitting around in a wheelchair, playing solitaire, watching "M*A*S*H" reruns and refusing to leave the house except for doctors' appointments.

This happened to be at the peak of anti-Irish sentiment in Boston, a bitter period when the old Yankee establishment tried to repulse the wave — thousands each year — of Irish immigrants, and, failing that, to make life in Boston as uncomfortable and unwelcoming as possible by restricting which jobs, housing, and services the Irish could apply for.

Instead, it has stretched into one of the war's most bitter periods, threatening the prospects for reconciliation as new tales of violence and revenge have drifted through the country.

But for African-Americans, the war ushered in one of the most bitter periods of the modern era, thanks to the policy of military segregation that barred most black soldiers from combat and poisoned relations between black Americans and the federal government.

But he also knows he presided over one of the most difficult and bitter periods for the game in Wales - a man admired by many, but not loved by all.

That Oscar race was also probably the costliest and nastiest in recent memory, which only accelerated talk of truncating what has, to many, become an unbearably long and bitter campaign period.

Many Filipinos are still bitter about the period of America's colonial rule, and consider the decision to close America's bases in the country in 1991 a triumph.