Sentence examples for or acrimonious from inspiring English sources

Officials in Chengdu said protracted or acrimonious talks between the EU and Britain over the departure could heighten the dangers.

But negotiating a temperature tax wouldn't necessarily be any more complicated or acrimonious than the emission cuts being debated in Copenhagen.

Not since the days Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett regularly locked horns on the athletics track has British sport seen a rivalry as intense - or acrimonious - as that of squash pair Nick Matthew and James Willstrop.

He was not one of the fellows — even though he, personally, was not acrimonious, or bitter.

He was not one of the fellows even though he, personally, was not acrimonious, or bitter.

Although the concept of discourse has played a significant role in anthropological research since the 1980s, competing framings as an analytic concept or object of research have sometimes given rise to nonoverlapping, or even acrimonious conversations.

In the long history of fights between governments and the corporation, there has never been one as personalised, prolonged or as acrimonious as this.

Committee members should have no current or past liaisons with the Murdoch press (whether acrimonious or favorable) that would compromise their judgment.

This can be difficult to achieve if, for instance, parental separation is acrimonious, or the children are living many miles away, or if the grandparents only learn of the existence of the children some years after they are born.

But most breakups are too complicated — or, frankly, too acrimonious — to be worked out in a cozy hotel room somewhere.

It wasn't an acrimonious or even completely necessary breakup – just an acknowledgement that life together had become too convenient and predictable.