During his exile Alcaeus wrote bitter polemics against Pittacus, who had joined another faction.
He was especially critical of U.S. and Israeli policy in the region, and this led him into numerous, often bitter, polemics with supporters of those two countries.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Muslim modernists engaged in bitter polemics against taqlid, which they held encourages stagnation of the law and Muslim backwardness.
But he alienated many of his comrades by supporting the Allied powers during World War I. His action, though prompted by the fear that German authoritarianism might prove fatal to social progress, violated the strong antimilitarist tradition among anarchists and touched off bitter polemics that nearly destroyed the movement for which he had laboured nearly half a century.
The current (2012) bitter polemics in macroeconomics testify to the influence of ideology.
Jurieu, "the Theologian of Rotterdam," soon became the bitterest enemy of Bayle, "the Philosopher of Rotterdam," and the two engaged in long and caustic polemic that was neither positive nor productive in any sense.
One of Twain's literary executors, Bernard DeVoto, resigned after Clara suppressed his edition of Twain's bitter 1909 polemic, "Letters From the Earth," which dealt bluntly with questions of religion and human sexuality.
It is a group of doctors, headed by Lord Horder that aim to "protect the public and the medical profession from State Monopoly in Medicine," & to preserve the ethical freedom of the individual doctor... .. Excerpts from the bulletin whose polemic tone is bitter.
Sometimes these polemics resulted in bitter animosity, as in his interchange with Christoph Sigwart (see e.g. Marty 1884 and Sigwart 1889).
