Sentence examples for bitter run-up 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.
Rio's Olympic Aquatics Centre became the centre of a bitter sporting dispute that not only dominated the run-up to these Olympics but looks set to run through the entire fortnight: whether Russia's athletes should be competing in the Games.
In Britain, the run-up to the event used to be a time of bitter arguments between senior Muslims and Jews.
A7 Harsh Exchange in Vietnam Vietnamese and American officials, in the run-up to the 25th anniversary tomorrow of the end of the war, traded bitter gibes over whose side had behaved worse during and after the conflict.
In the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the end of their war on Sunday, Vietnamese and American officials traded bitter gibes today over whose side had behaved worse during and after the conflict.
His victory came after one of the most bitter and vituperative run-ups to the prize in living memory - not among the shortlisted writers, but from dismayed and bemused commentators who accused judges of putting populism above genuine quality.
Set in Belfast in the bitter autumn of 1979, during the run up to the Maze prison hunger strikes, This Human Season is an ambitious leap for Dean.
Wrestling's road to London, in a sport that has benefited from £3.5m of lottery and exchequer investment in the eight-year cycle running up to the Games, has been riven with bitter argument and PR gaffes.
The score ran up quickly.
Sergeant Wallace came running up.
