Sentence examples for bitterly challenged from inspiring English sources

But their right to keep the children is being bitterly challenged by Vickie and Richard Allen, of San Bernardino, Calif., who had earlier paid the same broker about $6,000, begun adoption proceedings and lived with the babies for two months.

Politics and military strategy are largely absent from this collection, though a World War II letter from a black soldier to Yank magazine bitterly challenges the Army's Jim Crow policies.

The prevalence and proportion of the species bitterly challenges the presumptive-BS strategy as it leads to mistreat numerous p.vivax and false non-malaria cases.

"It hurt bitterly to have those beliefs challenged".

Every stage of the search for Richard has been bitterly contested and several historians have challenged Leicester's claim that it is "beyong reasonable doubt" they have found the last Plantagenet.

Peter's custody of his dead lover's daughter was legally challenged by the child's bitterly prejudiced grandmother.

The bitterly fought Gempei War (1180 85), in which survivors of the Genji family challenged and defeated the Heike, is recounted in detail in the Heike monogatari, the greatest epic of Japanese literature.

But then the newly rampant Republicans in the House, led by Newt Gingrich, fought bitterly with Mr. Clinton, challenging him at every turn and ultimately closing the federal government down in a dispute over spending policy.

Elton did not much like to be challenged over his thesis that Cromwell's reforms presaged a governmental revolution and he responded bitterly, but the consensus was that Williams was right.

Sometimes the local battle between the Church of England and dissent was bitterly contested, with Nonconformists opposing church rates (taxes), challenging closed foundations, and preaching educational reform and total abstinence from intoxicating beverages.

Arthur Levitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, pleaded yesterday for smaller accounting firms to challenge the leadership of the accounting industry, which has bitterly opposed Mr. Levitt's efforts to strengthen rules aimed at preserving auditor independence.