Acrimony
in sentence
26 examples of Acrimony in a sentence
And what can we gain by the right to marry if we are not able to cross the
acrimony
and emotional distance that so often separates us from our love?
The older men are opinionated, right-wing Thatcherites whose behavior brings back all the
acrimony
of the Reagan/Thatcher years.
Just as a married couple’s divorce often leads to bitterness and pitched battles that benefit only lawyers, the UK’s divorce from the EU will almost certainly descend into
acrimony.
This inter-state rivalry – at times bordering on
acrimony
– is what makes the politics of European integration difficult.
For the moment, the eurozone may well have reached the point where an amicable divorce is a better option than years of economic decline and political
acrimony.
If the US goes into recession, the
acrimony
will get a lot worse.
This question is often evaded, because the cost of exiting is deemed too high to consider it (and could be higher still if the break-up takes place in a crisis and sharpens reciprocal
acrimony
among participating countries).
This isn’t surprising, given the
acrimony
dominating national news coverage.
Beyond causing severe economic damage to both sides, such an outcome would generate so much
acrimony
that the two sides would find it next to impossible to work out arrangements in myriad other areas, such as territorial defense and counter-terrorism, trade and sanctions, international diplomacy, and climate change.
Europe’s Attack on Greek DemocracyNEW YORK – The rising crescendo of bickering and
acrimony
within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the bitter endgame playing out between Greece and its creditors.
At a plenary reportedly marked by acrimony, China’s political leaders sided with reform.
Left unchecked, they will generate growing
acrimony
between China and other countries.
By ignoring potentially helpful contributions from an increasingly knowledgeable public, closed-door technological development has precluded balanced assessments and created
acrimony
– a dangerously irresponsible and wasteful outcome for both science and society.
Indeed, Pushkin’s friendship with Adam Mickiewicz ended in
acrimony
over the 1830 Polish insurrection against Tsarist rule.
Worse, there is serious
acrimony
between Russia and the rest on many matters, including a new, alternative security architecture, which Russian President Dmitri Medvedev imagines could be placed under the OSCE’s umbrella.
China’s recent agreement to normalize relations with South Korea, after more than a year of acrimony, may reflect the effect of Xi’s liberation from succession politics.
Studies like those led by Lustig can illuminate the inevitable controversies, so that they yield better policies rather than simple
acrimony.
Others, including Belgium and Cameroon, have avoided serious conflict, but have experienced significant
acrimony
over the treatment of linguistic and regional minorities.
In the meantime, while the rest of the Global North is well on its way to recovery, America will remain mired in political acrimony, economic malaise, and potentially an even deeper existential crisis after Election Day on November 3.The Pharaoh-Friendly WestWASHINGTON, DC – Last month, Egypt’s parliament overwhelmingly approved draft constitutional changes that would allow President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to remain in office until 2034.
The public descended into
acrimony.
Decades of mutual
acrimony
and conflict have taken their toll on Israelis and especially on Palestinians, both psychologically and economically.
Given the current
acrimony
over the ECB’s monetary strategy, that might be one controversy too far.
So far, this renewed
acrimony
has compounded the fallout from an incident last month in which a South Korean warship targeted a Japanese patrol plane.
The alternatives offered by nationalists and neoliberals would guarantee more stagnation, inequality, environmental degradation, and political acrimony, potentially leading to outcomes we do not even want to imagine.
It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and
acrimony
of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.
Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adele: pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and
acrimony.
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