Sentence examples for bitter year from inspiring English sources

It has been a bitter year for cocoa producers.

Make no mistake, my patient was a natural even then — swift, limber, emotionless — but a bitter year or two passed before I could appreciate the fineness of his talent.

And if real, flesh-and-blood people would deign to join this table of make-believe, I'd extend an invitation, too, to Grace Paley, whose short stories, essays, and poems, collected together for the first time in this year's "A Grace Paley Reader," were politically and artistically galvanizing to me, and also a source of deep comfort during this bitter year.

Williams credited Debachus with gathering together gay leaders and church leaders after that bitter year of fighting to begin discussions about how the two communities could coexist.

And the bitter year-long dispute between Rupert Murdoch and the print unions – one of the most decisive of the era – had begun.

The files show that there were two moments during the government's bitter year-long struggle with the miners when Thatcher and her ministers "stared into the abyss" and glimpsed the possibility of defeat.

Political opponents, however, recalled that she also divided the country – not least during a bitter year-long miners' strike — and that her tough economic medicine saw unemployment peak at more than three million.

WASHINGTON — The House Republican leader on Sunday flatly rejected a short-term, bipartisan Senate measure to extend a payroll tax break and unemployment insurance, setting the stage for a bitter year-end Congressional collision and the potential loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

There have been bitter years of disappointment".

That story turned bitter years ago, of course.

Those were bitter years, he said, when friends and even his wife found him politically radioactive.