Sentence examples similar to bitter run from inspiring English sources

The New York-based bank has been dragged into the BHS scandal, the bitter run-up to the US presidential election and the furore over the appointment of the former European commission president José Manuel Barroso as chairman of Goldman Sachs International.

But the very notion of home is bedeviled for Frank, as is the bitter running joke of his family name.

Spotify and Pandora both operate at a loss (€58.7m and $16.1m respectively in 2012) despite increasing revenues, and there are bitter running battles between artists and license-holders about royalties.

One reason for the wide appeal of "Jitney" is the undercurrent of hope and forgiveness that flows through the play, often even unstated, as when two antagonists who have a bitter running feud resume playing checkers in the final scene.

There's a bitter streak running through all of us, so it's no surprise that the programme is heavy on people muttering things like: "It's mad isn't it?

It eventually became the United Kingdom's longest ever running bitter campaign.

By 1987 it had become the UK's longest running bitter campaign of all time.

Fischer gave his personal backing to keeping the Parthenon marbles in Bloomsbury, the bitterest running dispute in the entire collection.

Both sides of the debate on whether to leave the EU – a debate that has raised issues of national sovereignty and Britain's ability to control its own immigration policy – have been accused of running a bitter, vitriolic campaign, the likes of which Britain has not seen before.

Mr. Caruso ran a bitter campaign for the mayor's seat against Mr. Fabrizi and lost the Democratic primary by just a few hundred votes.

"Bitter Bierce" runs through March 2 at 150 First Avenue, at Ninth Street.