Sentence examples for devil of a bargain from inspiring English sources

She argues that women of her generation made a "devil of a bargain" when they traded homemaking for careers.

It is also something of a bargain.

Not much of a bargain.

This was not much of a bargain.

The military acted on those suggestions to present the liberals with a kind of devil's bargain: a declaration that would have protected individual and minority rights, but also granted the military permanent political powers and immunity from scrutiny as the guardian of "constitutional legitimacy".

What sort of devil's bargain is that?" Maybe we just need a jazzier term.

From that moment, my career came to feel like some sort of devil's bargain.

"That's the kind of devil's bargain that they are buying into".

Think of it as a bargain.

Bank of East Asia is a bargain.

Theirs was, in many ways, a devil's bargain, typical of Mexico's political culture – gifts in the short term for status quo in the long one.