Sentence examples for bitter river from inspiring English sources

A bitter river of recrimination and regret separates the brothers.

The most striking example of this situation is seepage from the hydrothermal system beneath the crater lake of Kawah Ijen volcano (Java, Indonesia), feeding the Banyupahit stream ("bitter river", Delmelle and Bernard [2000]; van Hinsberg et al. [2010]).

Other examples, although with less hazardous impacts, are Río Agrio ("bitter river") at Copahue volcano (Argentina; Varekamp et al. [2001]), Río Agrio at Poás volcano (Costa Rica; Rowe et al. [1995]), and Ciwidey river at Patuha volcano (Java, Indonesia; Sriwana et al. [1998]).

India and Pakistan have contested one another's access to the Indus River system; a 2006 study commissioned by the Defense Department said, "for over a half century, bitter rivalry over river resources" has arguably "been one of the leading causes of full-scale warfare between them".

Cook died bitter, one of the last of the river people, battling the government over policies that have essentially outlawed subsistence living on the Yukon.

Jackson Pollock, Mr. Rivers recalled with a certain bitter glee, "once tried to run down one of my sculptures that was standing in a friend's driveway in East Hampton".

The imagination of disaster is never far from these pages, and though this house will finally stay on its foundation, it does get swamped by a monsoon-swelled river, and with consequences that are bitter indeed.

In 1920, the Bitter Point Dam was built to divert the river away from the bay and on its current course to the ocean at Huntington Beach.

— In a place where the lives and histories of Indian tribes and white settlers intertwine like mingling mountain streams, a bitter battle has erupted on this land over the rivers running through it.

They both had grown up in Nebraska, knew the bitter cold of the Nebraska winter, knew that the rivers froze, but still they threw their weapons onto the ice-covered Nemaha, because — I can only think — killers in gangster pictures throw their guns into the river after a hit.

Over the years, the river dispute has turned the two states into bitter foes.