(1) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
(2) If bitter, pour it out and measure 1.4 litres of water.
(3) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(4) The first was a passive avoidance task in which the chicks were allowed to peck at a green training stimulus (a small light-emitting diode, LED) coated in the bitter liquid, methylanthranilate, giving rise to a strong disgust response and consequent avoidance of the green stimulus.
(5) In the QHCl-sucrose condition components separated by the tongue's midline and those spatially mixed produced equal amounts of bitterness suppression.
(6) At the interview those with conventional ileostomies expressed better preoperative comprehension of the procedure and more satisfaction about its life-saving nature; nevertheless, they experienced more negative emotional reactions, such as bitterness, after the operation.
(7) The higher analogues of the cycloalkane series containing alpha-aminocycloheptanecarboxylic acid methyl ester and alpha-aminocyclooctanecarboxylic acid methyl ester are bitter.
(8) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(9) Hollande ended up defending until to the bitter end Jérôme Cahuzac , a finance minister responsible for fighting tax evasion who turned out to have used a secret Swiss bank account to avoid paying taxes in France.
(10) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
(11) Grace's ascent has also thrown a grenade into the bitter succession battle within Zanu-PF, which Mugabe has divided and ruled for decades.
(12) Denatonium, a very bitter substance, caused a rise in the intracellular calcium concentration due to release from internal stores in a small subpopulation of taste cells.
(13) I see myself in exactly the same situation as I saw myself yesterday, though obviously with the bitter disappointment of the failure of being knocked out.
(14) Stephen Joseph, its chief executive said: "This is bitter news for everyone who relies on the train to get to work, not least the large number of commuters in marginal constituencies who will be a key group at the next election."
(15) Lewis Wind Power, the joint venture company set up by Amec and British Energy, said it was "bitterly disappointed" by the decision.
(16) As night fell in Paris, despite the bitter cold, more than 5,000 people gathered under the imposing statue of Marianne, the symbol of the republic, to show their anger, grief and solidarity.
(17) The present alternative model of health care in China has evolved after prolonged and often bitter debate extending over twenty years.
(18) It is much less soluble and bitter and poses few stability problems when capsulated or tableted with aspirin.
(19) "They have given Mexicans the most bitter Christmas," Armando Martínez, the president of the College of Catholic Attorneys, told reporters.
(20) He says he is not bitter but his words are laced with hostility.
Vendetta
Definition:
(n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Example Sentences:
(1) I followed Brooks over the seven-month period from when he was arrested until he was cleared, and the Guardian published a story stating that Brooks had been the victim of a police vendetta .
(2) So, too, does the bloody tradition of "rido", meaning clan warfare and inter-communal vendettas.
(3) Shaina Nana Chudasama, the spokeswoman for Modi's Hindu nationalist party, said that some charges against politicians were filed due to political vendettas.
(4) The Manchester experiment must be given a fair opportunity to succeed or fail, because local democracy is too important to be at the mercy of vendettas or changing fashions in planning policy, especially when instability plagues national politics in Britain.
(5) Erdoğan has also been criticised by EU countries for pursuing his vendetta with the Kurds while failing to stem the northwards flow of Syrian refugees and the southwards flow of Isis recruits from Europe and North America.
(6) Shiner also accused the government of pursuing a personal vendetta against him in revenge for his work gathering hundreds of cases against British forces in Iraq.
(7) Albanian's penal code refers to vendetta as premeditated murder, but the courts are still at a loss to know how to cope with this parallel system of justice.
(8) The connection was such that before long Ava had, Munn claims, chosen him as the person to whom she would confide all she knew about her ex-husband, Frank Sinatra , and his vendetta against mafia boss Sam Giancana, which in turn became the inside story of the Kennedys' involvement in the murder of Marilyn Monroe.
(9) It goes without saying that this charge is bogus and the result of a political vendetta.
(10) In a country such as Russia, where some people criticise their leaders for not being authoritarian enough, judicial vendettas are still tolerated by many – but if a genuine economic crisis hits Russia and the opposition's ranks grow further, we may be in for a wild ride.
(11) The decision was driven by the Tasmanian Liberals who have run a vendetta against the Greens and environmentalists since they lost their battle to flood the Franklin in 1983,” said Brown.
(12) The killing of Kevin McGuigan on 12 August was an internal republican vendetta for the shooting of a former IRA commander in May.
(13) Kandahar is a hotbed of long-running personal vendettas.
(14) The GOP – with its decades-running vendetta against women of people of color – allowed him to step right into the party’s candidacy, swapping over 40 years of dog-whistle politics for an attack hound bent on going after those already on the losing end of Republican policies.
(15) Supporters of the Anonymous hacking collective wore Guy Fawkes masks in reference to the cult pro-revolution film V for Vendetta.
(16) The Coalition’s Senate leader, Eric Abetz, told parliament the move was part of Palmer’s “personal vendetta” against Newman.
(17) V IS FOR VENDETTA Fergie pursued dangerous rivals across the pages of national newspapers with unmatched vigour.
(18) In 1975 Margaret Thatcher spoke of the Labour government’s “disastrous vendetta against small businesses and the self-employed”.
(19) The Azerbaijani media, which often acts as a mouth piece for the government, responded to the news by accusing Clooney of harbouring a vendetta against the Turkic countries of central Asia.
(20) It was necessary for God to come "down" personally to Earth and have himself tortured and executed, after being "betrayed" (though why it was a betrayal since getting himself executed was the main purpose of the visit, is never explained, nor is the millennia-long vendetta against Jews as "Christ-killers").