• And I did meet in my prison journey quite a lot of double Richards, people who were bitter against judges, juries, witnesses and so on, and they went on, as it were, serving their sentence twice.

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  • Sudan is fighting a bitter conflict against the SPLA-North, a rebel group that wants to be part of independent South Sudan.

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  • His wife, welded to his side through most of the bitter fight against Starr, was pointedly absent in its Rose Garden aftermath.

    CNN: Sighs and whimpers

  • Previously, a document leaked to BBC's Newsnight programme appeared to show Royal Mail digging in for a bitter battle against the union.

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  • Those votes led to the closest election in four decades of politics for Baucus, a narrow victory in a bitter campaign against Republican Denny Rehberg.

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  • Thatcher say she transformed Britain into a free-market economy and restored a sense of British pride, but she remains a deeply divisive figure in her home country, having led bitter battles against unions and imposed tough economic measures.

    WSJ: Thatcher Funeral Set for Next Week

  • Thatcher, Britain's first and only female prime minister, say she transformed Britain into a free-market economy and restored a sense of British pride, but her bitter battles against unions and the tough economic measures she imposed won her many enemies.

    WSJ: Global Figures Pay Respects at Funeral for Margaret Thatcher in London

  • You see, Oracle won a bitter hostile bid against their former company, PeopleSoft.

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  • But a 42-point blowout against a bitter rival cannot be ignored, especially after Texas barely squeezed out a win against Oklahoma State a few weeks ago.

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  • It is often said that there is no place like Puerto Rico, whose bitter war for independence against Spain ended in 1898 with an American invasion, whose occupation ushered in the American century but whose continued purgatory -- neither the 51st state, nor an independent country -- seems aberrant in the 21st.

    CNN: Hot new things to do in Puerto Rico

  • We're up against decades of bitter partisanship that cause politicians to demonize their opponents instead of coming together to make college affordable or energy cleaner.

    CNN: Obama speech: 'Yes, we can change'

  • Simon Hughes won the seat of Southwark for the Liberal Party in a notoriously bitter 1983 by-election, against Labour's Peter Tatchell.

    BBC: Simon Hughes

  • Following the death of the charismatic Reuther, the low-key Woodcock was immediately thrust into national contract negotiations with with the "Big Three" auto companies and led the union through a bitter 67-day nationwide strike against General Motors, longest ever.

    CNN: Former UAW President Leonard Woodcock dies

  • Manchester United opens its season on Sunday, August 12 in the Football Associations Community Shield match against cross-town and bitter rivals Manchester City.

    FORBES: Manchester United Scores $233 Million in IPO

  • That happened today when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a controversial class action employment case to proceed against Wal-Mart despite the bitter objections, not just of the 930, 000-employee retailer but five judges including Chief Justice Alex Kozinski.

    FORBES: Ninth Circuit Gives Wal-Mart A Big Headache

  • "We think the bitter receptors over time were developed to protect us against bacteria, " he says.

    WSJ: People Who Taste Too Much

  • One theory is that sensitivity to bitter flavor could have evolved as a protective mechanism against poisonous plants.

    WSJ: People Who Taste Too Much

  • Even before the Iowa caucuses, he was wandering off message, and his bitter, fourth-place finish inspired a vendetta against Mr. Romney.

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  • That led to one of the most bitter industrial disputes in British history, her standoff against striking coal miners in the 1980s.

    WSJ: Thatcher Was a Skeptic on Centralized Europe

  • The shade is the result of tannin released from fynbos roots, the bitter taste of which helps to defend the plant against hungry animals.

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  • Last summer saw the opening in Aberdeen, Scotland, of Trump International Golf Links after a bitter, yearslong fight waged by environmentalists and local residents against government leaders and, of course, Trump.

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  • One of Mr Mutharika's most bitter critics, the Reverend Daniel Gunya says church leaders campaigned against Mr Mutharika because they did not want Mr Muluzi's legacy to continue.

    BBC: Bingu wa Mutharika

  • At the same time, he lobbied antitrust regulators against Microsoft's bundling plans and courted Microsoft's bitter rival in the Web-browser market, Netscape.

    ECONOMIST: America Online

  • Two millennia on, the ancient site is dividing people, not joining them up: it is the object of a bitter dispute pitting the Turkish government and David Packard, an American philanthropist, against local people in the southern Turkish town of Gaziantep.

    ECONOMIST: Turkish archaeology

  • And if there were any bitter memories of Mr Huhne's alleged (broken) pledge not to stand against the former Lib Dem leader in 2006, he was now anxious to stress their mutual closeness.

    BBC: Sketch

  • It was a bitter defeat for Falcone, who made billions of dollars for himself and his investors betting against subprime mortgages, only to lose much of it trying to build the next big cellular-telephone network.

    FORBES: LightSquared Files Chapter 11 'To Resolve Regulatory Issues'

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