Sentence examples for bitter property from inspiring English sources

As they become more profitable and valuable, the problem of corporate control becomes worse, pitting large owners against minority shareholders in bitter property fights.

One of Colonel Qaddafi's most toxic legacies is the vast land-redistribution policy he started in the late 1970s, which now threatens to ignite a patchwork of bitter property disputes in a well-armed population.

The case goes back to February, when the homeowner, John Hockenjos, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority engineer who lives in Sheepshead Bay, had an interaction with Officer Palacios and another officer in the driveway, which has been the subject of a bitter property feud between Mr. Hockenjos and a neighbor.

Stephen had a house he could have lived in all his life if he respected me as his wife, but at the end I was just his servant.' As his own marriage became a bitter property dispute, Beeston saw trouble coming.

The cypress and pine are also singular in their nature; for though they contain equal portions of the other elements, yet, from their large proportion of water, they are apt to bend in use; they last, however, a long time, free from decay; the reason whereof is, that they contain a bitter juice, whose acrid properties prevent the rot, and are not less efficacious in destroying the worm.

An American judge is poised to rule whether the ubiquitous BlackBerry wireless e-mail service should be shut down in the United States, as part of a bitter intellectual property lawsuit.

Bitter taste properties in relation with the structure of the peptides in fermented food and protein hydrolyzates have been studied.

A similar trend was also observed in the bitter cold properties of raw and processed R. palmatum samples (Table  3).

Tannins are present in skin and seed tissues and nearly absent in the flesh, and are responsible for the bitter and astringent properties of red wine.

Hops, the resinous female inflorescences of Humulus lupulus L. (Cannabaceae) (called hop cones or strobiles), are used primarily in the brewing industry because of their bitter and aromatic properties.

One of the most striking aspects of the research led by Dr. Hinton is that it has taken place largely without the patent restrictions and bitter infighting over intellectual property that characterize high-technology fields.