| They reciprocated the gesture by withdrawing from the consultative mechanisms, thereby aggravating already rancorous relations. |
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| He would often describe his wartime experiences in caustic, funny terms that would turn bitter and rancorous. |
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| The rest of the piece was less rancorous, and I suggest you read the whole thing, to understand what I was trying to say. |
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| It seems to be aiming for a modern Catcher in the Rye with its sardonic, rancorous, troubled kid character. |
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| It had been a spiteful encounter where each glove impact was welcomed with rancorous applause. |
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| Because their families are rancorous enemies, Romeo and Juliet cannot live their love in the open. |
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| The tone is that of rancorous comedy, and there is skill in the writing, but the play, unlike the movie, is weighed down with a confusing prologue and a clumsy epilogue. |
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| Yet the very triumph of these principles imparted a rancorous quality to public life, as the wealthy pastoral and professional elite fought to hold on to their advantages. |
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| For several years now, this town has been consumed by a rancorous argument over the proper size of the federal government. |
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| This is not to say that our parties shouldn't engage in rancorous debate about fiscal policy and the budgets. |
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| The rancorous debate ended on December 7, 1941, when the U.S. entered the war after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. |
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| Negotiator Moe Ritchie described the negotiations as a long and rancorous process that produced a workable agreement. |
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| Just as we need a new tone in Washington, we also need a new tone in discussing energy and the environment, one that is less suspicious, less punitive, less rancorous. |
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| That has been stopped by very rancorous negotiating between the provincial government and the state government. |
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| After more than a year of rancorous debate and ugly revelations, Cameron agrees to a voluntary press watchdog. |
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| The revision of Canadian history and mythology to encompass the fullness of racialization may initially lead to rancorous debate and painful rifts. |
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| A rancorous dispute ensued over how performance royalties should be assessed for Internet broadcasters. |
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| At the same time the rancorous satires and protest plays that sprouted in the shadow of the invasion of Iraq have given way to more detached, skeptical works that question the satisfactoriness of any political system. |
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| We are thrown fiercely into the squabble here, Tony Bell's rancorous and blubbery Billy Bones subsiding later into the reasoned West Country tones of Captain Smollett. |
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| Those articles became particularly rancorous when high-profile public sector or charitable organisation clients were involved, and Wolff Olins did work for both. |
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| One says he moved to Germany a few years ago, where the mood is less rancorous, and his friends when they visit say they're considering leaving America as well. |
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| The bill reflects a broad range of inputs in numerous sensitive areas in such a way that the approbation of the House and the committee were forthcoming with neither delay nor, I am glad to say, rancorous debate. |
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| While the Task Force has agreed to the concept of shared responsibility between industry, governments and consumers, there is continuing and sometimes rancorous debate over who pays, how much and when. |
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| The notion of scheduled adjournments again came to the fore in the early 1980s when the motion to adjourn for the summer became the occasion for extended and rancorous debate. |
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| When the debate gets rancorous, they tend to suffer more than most. |
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| Members of the Certification Committee who were interviewed for this report noted that the process was far more rancorous than the curriculum development process. |
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| Although turning more heated and rancorous during the final weeks of the campaign, overall most parties devoted more time than in previous elections in promoting their respective political platforms. |
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| Management-driven anti-takeover moves are successful in defeating most hostile takeover attempts but often provoke rancorous, prolonged litigations inflicting great damage on companies. |
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| All this occurred in the generation before Bracton, and still was rancorous in his time. |
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