| Negotiator Moe Ritchie described the negotiations as a long and rancorous process that produced a workable agreement. |
| This is not to say that our parties shouldn't engage in rancorous debate about fiscal policy and the budgets. |
| It had been a spiteful encounter where each glove impact was welcomed with rancorous applause. |
| 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. |
| They reciprocated the gesture by withdrawing from the consultative mechanisms, thereby aggravating already rancorous relations. |
| For several years now, this town has been consumed by a rancorous argument over the proper size of the federal government. |
