These official reports were certainly propaganda in that they were bitterly polemical. |
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It's the end of October, the unheated flat is bitterly cold and everyone just wants it all to be over. |
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This attempted acquisition is now ranked as one of the most bitterly fought takeover battles of recent years. |
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The industry, moreover, has now convinced almost all governments and world bodies to back the bitterly disputed technology. |
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His bitterly honeyed voice and compelling presence have threatened to make him a star for some time. |
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Suddenly, a bitterly satirical movie about teenaged criminals was a liability to a film studio. |
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If you want to force your ideas of story onto this experience, you will be bitterly disappointed. |
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I began to reflect on the bitterly frigid winter days of my youth, when I would sit outside in the backyard of the old house. |
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However, he is in coalition with a far-right nationalist party that bitterly opposes both steps. |
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He officially switched on the lights, and on a bitterly frosty night, the ballpark was looking splendid. |
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The days were warm and comfortable, he thought absently, but the nights were just this side of bitterly cold. |
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Young children simply cannot be expected to wait outside for school buses when it is as bitterly cold as it was last week, Peters said. |
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The pub trade in York is now mourning the loss of a good licensing officer who bitterly regrets the part he played in his own downfall. |
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It was bitterly cold, with a thin skiff of snow holding down the dirt and dust of the streets. |
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Although Kusturica's satire is often bitterly funny, it always just skims surface. |
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It has bitterly disappointed working class voters and its core supporters, who identified it with significant social reforms 20 years ago. |
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The organisation bitterly resented the fact that food parcels were being dropped at the same time as bombs. |
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Dundee United gorged themselves on a rich performance at Ibrox, but it was an afternoon which became bitterly unpalatable to Rangers. |
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In the past, investors and superannuants believed in financial 'pipe dreams' of stability, and have been bitterly disappointed. |
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She has bitterly resigned herself to the ephemeralness of love with an eccentric and peripatetic young Dutchman. |
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The trade authorities in the two countries have been negotiating for years and sometimes quarreled bitterly in the process. |
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As a stark background, the war-torn Russian populace bitterly voices its utter misery. |
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When they pulled out of NATO 40 years ago Secretary of State Dean Rusk had a bitterly caustic response. |
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At the same time, this system was bitterly opposed by the great majority of ordinary people. |
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Always bitterly exuberant, you see life as a pink spathe swathing a yellow spadix. |
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The small shareholders will be hoping to turn around the fortunes of a speculative investment that so many have come to bitterly regret. |
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Most bush pilots recommend leaving cowl flaps closed in bitterly cold weather, especially during the warm-up. |
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Lancashire will be aiming for revenge after they suffered a bitterly disappointing defeat at Leicester last month. |
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There was a knock at the door so I got up and trudged to the door bitterly and peeped through the small windows. |
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It had a bitterly sweet taste, that left her mouth dry, yet the taste was unforgettable. |
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They are a solid group of people and they will stick together after what was a bitterly disappointing defeat. |
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The families and friends of those killed have responded bitterly to the litany of obfuscations and half-truths. |
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The plan has been bitterly opposed by the prime minister's former allies and the 240,000 settlers who live in the occupied territories. |
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The decision was bitterly controversial and was carried by Republican Party majorities alone. |
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But I am bitterly disappointed not just with the result but our overall performance. |
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It was not, however, recognized by many country gentlemen, who bitterly resented this devaluation of their treasured status. |
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Caidryn laughs bitterly, the angry bruise on her face darkening her features even further. |
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The 12 th of November was bitterly cold with icy showers of rain lashing down over the City. |
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At his slightly overwhelmed expression and agape jaw, she snorted bitterly. |
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Despite the bitterly cold weather on Nov. 28, activists gathered on the wind-blown bridge for over an hour. |
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Spring is beginning to make its long awaited appearance even if the weather has been bitterly cold and frosty of late. |
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We see all four girls training for the sprint relay on a bitterly cold wintry day, with constant rain lashing the track. |
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A long-term relationship with a model ended bitterly in an excruciating kiss-and-tell newspaper article. |
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The dark overcast hid any hint of the sun, and a bitterly cold wind swept in out of the west, carrying a promise of snow. |
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She was reportedly a tough character, bitterly acerbic and tragically alcoholic. |
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Reichert also complains bitterly in the book about the intrusive actions of media reporters. |
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For other Latinas and Latinos, the bestowal of posthumous citizenship was bitterly ironic. |
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Edie reproved herself bitterly for hugging Walter the way she had, earlier. |
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Sorin is not the usual whingeing ancient, but a sardonic, angry old man who can laugh bitterly at himself. |
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Though bitterly contested by isolationists, the bill became law in March 1941, and ten US Coastguard cutters were transferred to the Royal Navy. |
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She leaned forward onto her elbows and buried her face in her arms, weeping bitterly. |
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And since then, apart from a furious row by phone during which each bitterly agreed to return the other's gift, they have not spoken. |
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Yet the existing parties were imposed by the military, and are divided and bitterly fractionalised. |
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He bitterly rebuked them for having the temerity to come crawling to him for a loan after publicly disdaining him. |
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It reflects a wider debate, fanned by bitterly hostile coverage of the tube strikes in much of the media. |
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Many who live here preach bitterly of its negative impacts, while developers lick their chops in anticipation of windfall profits. |
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She had been banned from life classes while at Nottingham School of Art, an injustice she felt bitterly. |
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In the Sierra Nevada's Owens Valley, though, he is bitterly regarded as the villain who stole farmers' water and drove them to ruin. |
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She just had no sexual appetite and her husband was complaining bitterly about the infrequent rolls in the hay. |
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The Progressives, as the liberals in the Prussian lower chamber called their party, bitterly opposed the reform. |
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But it also politicized us by brutally and bitterly fracturing our community. |
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The wartime memories of a Polish Jew and a non-Jewish Pole can still be bitterly contrasting. |
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A Bradford councillor has made a scathing attack on preservationists who are bitterly opposed to the construction of an Aire Valley motorway. |
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The neutral countries complain bitterly at the extraordinary baldness of our news service. |
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Rose's fingers were numb from the cold, white with sharply marked red tips, and they stung bitterly as she dug them into his scratchy coat. |
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A strong, gusty westerly made it feel bitterly cold but it was dry, and I was thankful for that. |
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The North-South thaw has produced a groundswell of positive sentiment in Korea, bitterly divided for so long. |
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Even wrapped up with an extra set of thermals under a drysuit and thick winter gloves, the water is bitterly cold. |
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I've covered stories about the market, and that the traders are complaining bitterly about its current placing. |
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Indeed, graduates have complained bitterly about a lack of school identity and diversity. |
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The thought of leading the cloistered life of a nun made her bitterly unhappy, and she determined to run away from the convent. |
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He spoke bitterly, aware that the decision had been made, and chafing under its harsh restrictions. |
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While the others went and paid their respects at Claudes bitterly fresh grave, Mum, Nan and I went to see Melly's beflowered resting place. |
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She shrieks at her sons, who berate her for not supporting the father, she weeps bitterly, tries to calm them. |
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She said local people had complained bitterly about the lack of notice for the plan to extend the deadline by a year. |
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Critics have also complained bitterly that the board failed to release financial records despite promises to do so. |
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The Hereros bitterly resisted, and large numbers of them, including women and children, were killed by German troops. |
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Let's consider the facts surrounding the death of David, as opposed to the bitterly contested evidence. |
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The singers, in blonde wigs and full slap, are often inaudible, and when they come off at the end they are bitterly disappointed. |
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Though bitterly resenting her husband's faithlessness, she remains firm in her virtue. |
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He revisits that bitterly disappointing period in his life and is philosophical about what went so wrong. |
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I tottered about the streets, grinning bitterly at perfectly respectable people. |
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In the role of the empress, she portrays the transformation from loving-hearted girl to bitterly disillusioned woman. |
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But Amanda, though bitterly resenting her husband's faithlessness, remains firm in her virtue. |
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Under their influence, he consents to the emasculation of his revolutionary poems before publication, a weakness he bitterly regrets. |
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His rendition eliminates entirely the bitterly ironic and surreal imagery of a rotting, burning body hanging from a tree. |
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It compresses its bitterly touching love story into a 25-minute time frame. |
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Although bitterly funny at times, the picture also creates a somber mood that is very affecting. |
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This is a stereotype that is taken to often hilarious extremes in this bitterly black comedy. |
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It's the result of a messy political process, reflecting a bitterly divided Congress and hastily crafted compromises. |
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Later, he bitterly parted company with the militants who spurred the great strike of 1951, paving the way for a slightly kinder, gentler face to industrial labour. |
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The last thing Mandela wanted to do was unite, through fear, the often bitterly divided white Anglo and Afrikaner populations. |
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Rather it is the time to increase the size and tempo of guerrilla attacks even through the coming, bitterly cold Afghan winter. |
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There are a few good ones, Antoine says, but he complained bitterly of a lack of responsiveness. |
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A bitterly partisan public discourse also developed in 18th-century England. |
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A decision the government would come to bitterly regret over the coming decades. |
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On a bitterly chill day, plenty of accommodation was available for punters in the state-of-the-art stand, and facilities for hospitality were excellent. |
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The finish may have been of an exciting nature, but the inventive moments were extremely rare, at a bitterly cold, and for a spell, wettish Kilmaine on Saturday evening. |
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In a nationwide broadcast, correa bitterly complained of first-world indifference. |
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One of the huge stained-glass windows on the north side of the building had been removed, allowing a bitterly cold wind to whistle around the building. |
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Some have complained bitterly of the failure of municipal authorities to provide adequate water for bathing in this bitter season of heat and affliction. |
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Britons have resented, sometimes bitterly, that the US administration does not appear interested in reciprocal support for Britain's agenda in international affairs. |
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The Fascists had their roots in bitterly anticlerical Italian radical nationalism, Mussolini himself having been a Socialist leader until the First World War. |
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As commander of the American expeditionary Force, Pershing made two all-important and bitterly controversial decisions. |
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I am bitterly disappointed that they won't be covering the tally room. |
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Hot and dry in summer, bitterly cold and exposed in winter, the Cevennes may be a harsh and unforgiving land but it possesses a raw, savage and inspiring beauty. |
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Like most Decembers in the northern United States, the weather was bitterly cold, and Burdick struggled emotionally because she was over 150 miles away from her family. |
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In a bitterly angry riposte Benveniste described the investigation as a mockery of scientific inquiry, and compared it to a Salem witch hunt or a McCarthyite prosecution. |
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Henri inherited a bitterly divided nation, ravaged by international and civil war, beset on all sides by the mighty Habsburg empire, and bankrupt. |
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Those who had married were bitterly denounced, but their most serious offences were rejecting the supremacy of the pope and denying the doctrine of transubstantiation. |
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He has more than tripled his support after four years in office, while Washington has only grown more bitterly polarized. |
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He comments bitterly on his failures to the Angel of Death herself. |
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At the Union Square market, farmers complain bitterly of shrinking sales. |
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I have heard not one street-organ since, and I regret this bitterly. |
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The sacrifice is that all of the blood-sucking creatures that get killed during the bitterly icy winters in other parts of the country flourish in ours. |
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It is now the height of the Montenegrin winter and bitterly cold. |
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Yet any pre-season optimism which had accrued between the end of last term and the start of this, quickly withered on a blisteringly hot and bitterly disappointing afternoon. |
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I would be bitterly disappointed if the scheme fell by the wayside. |
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They are, as far as anyone can tell, bitterly hostile to the oligarchs, believing them to be the undeserving beneficiaries of resources that belong to the nation. |
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I reproached myself bitterly for narrowness and ingratitude. |
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He heavily favored his own tribe, the Popalzai, to the detriment of other clans who bitterly resented his partiality. |
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There are many in the party who are desperately and bitterly upset about what happened to Simon Crean, so they are not happy about having to choose another leader. |
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This ordinance was also bitterly opposed by voluntaryists in the council and throughout the colony, but in 1848 it came into operation for three years. |
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She's going to be a scratchy, hairy traveller, she complains bitterly. |
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But there is also a sense that many of those who complain bitterly about the direction of government policy still nurture the hope that Tony is really on their side. |
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I am bitterly concerned with this one-sided, biased, anti-Israel report. |
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In January 1866, on a bitterly cold night, a man dressed in ragged clothes begged for a night's lodging in the male casual ward of Lambeth workhouse. |
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He had been a serious, shy young man whose wit showed only in the bitterly caustic cartoon strips he drew, the strips that were rejected by paper after paper. |
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Stupid alarm, Livi thought to herself bitterly, complete with a lovely mental image of the irritating machine smashed to pieces and thrown into a wood chipper. |
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I feel more than a little awkward using hoodoo stuff, to be honest, given the vast gulf between my own advantages and the bitterly oppressed state of its originators. |
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He has taken the order to stop clowning around in the school car park very badly and complains bitterly that we are all stopping him becoming famous. |
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Tracey Morris tries to put a brave face on it, but there is no disguising the fact she is bitterly disappointed not to be competing in tomorrow's race. |
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The chief instilled a high tone of collegiality and respect at the Court, even in this period when the justices were deeply and bitterly divided over fundamental issues. |
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The Arctic was still bitterly cold in winter because, with less sunshine, not only did the polar ocean freeze over in winter, but the inland seas as well. |
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She wept bitterly when speaking of her crime, but not self-pityingly. |
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She is reminded bitterly of how she cropped her long hair short. |
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But it's the so-called purple states that are bitterly contested. |
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Similar struggles exist in east Malaysia, where the land rights of indigenous groups are bitterly disputed with loggers eager to harvest the timber for export. |
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Wahhabist Sunni Saudi Arabia bitterly opposes Shia Iran as a regional hegemonic rival. |
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However, King George III was bitterly opposed to any such Emancipation and succeeded in defeating his government's attempts to introduce it. |
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However, the Labour Party was bitterly divided on the subject of devolution. |
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Her concern annoys personality transplant victim Danny, who as we know, is bitterly jealous of the dwarfy Kevin. |
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He eventually came to write several long and bitterly satirical verses against the corruption of the court. |
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He's superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious and consumed by dubious ideology and bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith. |
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The Newry City boss was bitterly disappointed at not securing three points but there was a lot of hope for the future after a dominant display. |
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Anticyclones to the North and East brought bitterly cold air and left many farms isolated for weeks. |
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Officials are bitterly divided over two diametrically opposed strategies. |
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The lonely millionaire reflected bitterly on the unpurchasability of true love. |
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Churchill opposed the Soviet domination of Poland and wrote bitterly about it in his books, but was unable to prevent it at the conferences. |
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Many CPU silicon designers in the 1990s complained bitterly about the rat's nest in the center of SPARC chips. |
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He recounted his life in Geneva, sometimes recalling bitterly some of the hardships he had suffered. |
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Peter began requiring the nobility to wear Western clothing and shave off their beards, an action that the boyars protested bitterly. |
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The Dutch and British bitterly opposed them because they saw the company as a direct attack on their Asian trade. |
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The Pope bitterly felt this catastrophe as a double blow to Christendom and to Greek letters. |
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According to the ancient sources, the two sides fought bitterly for some time. |
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A religious polemic of about this time complains bitterly of the oppression and extortion suffered by all but the richest Romans. |
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The aristocrats, who stood to lose an enormous amount of money, were bitterly opposed to this proposal. |
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The referendum campaign of 1948 was bitterly fought, and interests in both Canada and Britain favoured and supported confederation with Canada. |
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As a result, many British soldiers bitterly accused the airmen of doing nothing to help. |
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The Covenant bitterly opposed the Third Home Rule Bill, and thus opposed Home Rule for Ireland. |
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It was said that she was strongly interested in fame and fortune, and when household finances dwindled, she complained bitterly. |
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Because of her noble birth, she bitterly resented her position as a morganatic wife. |
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Keohane finds that the Conservatives were bitterly divided before 1914, especially on the issue of Irish Unionism and the experience of three consecutive election losses. |
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In the queen's bedchamber, Hamlet and Gertrude fight bitterly. |
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Best of all was Maia Wilkins, the bitterly jilted mistress, lifted from an Edward Gorey cartoon, who is relegated to holding the flashgun during the wedding photo. |
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A figure of Dostoevskian intensity, Trigano bitterly accuses Moses of selling out, betraying his original vision for a popular style, more realistic, more psychological. |
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After a while, as cultural debates became more polarized, the editorial tone of the New Criterion went from being charmingly curmudgeon to being bitterly shrill. |
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Earth here is as dry as a sand-stripped skeleton, bitterly brilliantly beautifully yet bearably barren so that I might empty myself as I glide across the desert. |
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However, they remained sitting on the government benches supporting it in Parliament, though in the country local Liberal activists bitterly opposed the government. |
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She was grieved, and bitterly sorry for the man who was hurt so much. But still, in her heart of hearts, where the love should have burned, there was a blank. |
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