Sentence examples for bitter prospect from inspiring English sources

Tonight, there would be no champagne, no Things Can Only Get Better, just the bitter prospect of constitutional haggling with Gordon Brown.

The new austerity measures include, among others, a 22 percent cut in the benchmark minimum wage and 150,000 government layoffs by 2015 — a bitter prospect in a country ravaged by five years of recession and with unemployment at 21 percent and rising.

That would involve Mr Netanyahu and Mr Herzog rotating the job of prime minister - a bitter prospect for the Likud leader, who talks of government by the Left as a kind of doom-laden apocalyptic nightmare.

Hilal are generally much stronger at home than away in Africa and now face the bitter prospect of exiting at the semi-finals stage for the third time in five years.

If these skirmishes become bitter, Republican prospects would dim.

We welcome the infants into our herd and though some of them sob bitter tears at the prospect, they are now in our hearts and in our prayers and we will not easily let them go.

A month later, the Israeli military and Hamas militants engaged in the brutal 50-day Gaza war, which led to thousands of deaths and marked a new, bitter blow to the prospects of a lasting, peaceful settlement.

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.

He had him crawling on his belly underground, clinging to a rockface prospecting in bitter sleet, tending cattle, working tools in a homemade forge – all in the bitterest weather.

But Mr. Bishop worried about the prospect of a bitter fight over the matter for the next month.

"Voters are saying they have had enough of bitter medicine that holds no prospect of recovery and no longer trust parties committed to Berlin-mandated austerity," argues The Independent.