very old red wine is often decanted so that the puckering, bitter elements which have settled to the bottom will not be mingled with the wine itself.

Armenia supports ethnic Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan in the longstanding and very bitter separatist conflict against the Azerbaijani Government.

Now going by Bob and calling himself Ice-Man, he becomes very bitter from his circumstances.

Both historians became very bitter towards Justinian and his empress, Theodora.

AK ( a very common beer name in the 19th century ) was often referred to as a " mild bitter beer " interpreting " mild " as " unaged ".

Menzies was very bitter about what he saw as this betrayal by his colleagues, and almost left politics before being persuaded to become Minister for Defence Co-ordination in the Fadden government.

* Che Dang, very bitter tea made from Ilex causue leaves

A narrow majority of Australians voted against conscription in a very bitter hard-fought referendum in October 1916, and then again in December 1917, Australia being the only belligerent in World War One without conscription.

Styles long ; acorn mature in 18 months and taste very bitter.

Styles short, acorns mature in 18 months and taste very bitter.

Styles long ; acorns mature in 18 months and taste very bitter.

Although archeological evidence of this grain has been found in Roman contexts along the Rhine, Danube, and in the British Isles, Pliny the Elder was dismissive of rye, writing that it " is a very poor food and only serves to avert starvation " and spelt is mixed into it " to mitigate its bitter taste, and even then is most unpleasant to the stomach " ( N. H. 18. 40 ).

It was a very bitter war, a total war, and that is something that I am afraid has been lost to history .... he presence of the Loyalists ( colonists who did not want to join the fight for independence from Britain ) meant that the War of Independence was a conflict of complex loyalties.

Kernel white and very bitter.

Plants emit a smell bitter, resinous or medicative, which in some species is very intense and aromatic.

The acorn is unpalatable because the kernel is very bitter.

Seeing the manner in which our wounded had been mutilated after being dragged from the hospital ... we were very bitter and did not spare wounded Zulus ".

* On an empty stomach – after repeated vomiting, for example – a person's vomit may be green or dark yellow, and very bitter.

Planters to the east, either out of conviction to their consciences or to save their property, signed an oath of allegiance to the United States, thus bringing a rift among neighbors who were willing to lose everything including their lives, for the cause of the South ; and, they felt very bitter toward any neighbor signing such an oath.

They also have a very different tannin content to cider apples, with a predominance of astringent over bitter flavours.

* Harlan County, USA, Director: Barbara Kopple, USA 1976 – A documentary film about a very long and bitter strike of coal miners in Kentucky

Some consider the flavor to be very agreeable, but it is generally bitter if steeped in boiling water.

Winters are long and bitter, with an average of in January, and summers are short and warm to very warm with an average of in July.

The book was attacked by fellow Cartesian philosopher, Antoine Arnauld, and, although Arnauld's initial concerns were theological ones, the bitter dispute which ensued very quickly branched out into most other areas of their respective systems.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

When this agreement became public in May 1922, bitter resentment was expressed in Germany, but the treaty was still ratified by both countries.

This brought him into direct conflict with Utzon and in February 1966, after a bitter standoff and the suspension of progress payments by Hughes, Utzon resigned, sparking a major public outcry.

Despite the fading of bitter wartime memories, the general public, according to opinion polls, continued to show strong support for this constitutional provision.

The Christian-democrat parties allowed manhood suffrage in exchange for a complete constitutional equality in state funding between public and denominational schools, ending the bitter Dutch School Wars which had antagonised Dutch society for three generations.

In an increasingly bitter public correspondence, Pivoda claimed that Smetana was using his position to further his own career, at the expense of other composers.

In 1974 Courage test marketed keg John Smith's bitter in 400 of its Bristol area public houses, as well as some free trade outlets where it proved extremely popular.

The group conducted a bitter year-long public campaign that included an unsuccessful lawsuit against the party and later-disproven allegations against the party ’ s leader and board of directors including fraud, vote-rigging and even theft.

The tensions among the Parliamentarian generals became a bitter public argument after the Second Battle of Newbury.

However, their tournament was overshadowed by a very public and bitter spat between McCarthy and the team's star player Roy Keane, who was sent home without having kicked a ball on the eve of the tournament.

At the death of Colbert, François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, Colbert's enemy, who succeeded as superintendent in the department of public works, showed no favour to Le Brun who was Colbert's favorite, and in spite of the king's continued support Le Brun felt a bitter change in his position.

Saipan also has a negative place in many Irish people's minds after the “ Roy Keane Incident ”, a bitter and public falling-out between Republic of Ireland soccer star Roy Keane and Ireland manager Mick McCarthy which took place before the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

He was unable to effectively address the problems facing farmers ( including drought and low grain prices ), bitter labour disputes in the coal industry, or the pronounced divisions in public opinion that had sprung up around prohibition ( which his government ended ).

The public house is an important aspect of British culture, and alcoholic drinks include wines and English beers such as bitter, mild, stout, and brown ale.

Citizens, visitors, academics, environmentalists, local businesspeople and Jewish groups have opposed the development with some success, winning a lengthy and bitter public inquiry in 2003.

He also condemned the manner in which, at a time when there was broad public support for socialist ideals, increasingly bitter and futile in-fighting on the left made political success impossible.

Their disagreement turned into a bitter feud that lasted for decades ; the two men reconciled in 2007, but DeBakey made it public by inviting Cooley to his Congressional Gold Medal ceremony.

Lionel and Brenda went through a bitter, public split.

When the discovery was first made public in 1880, it led to a bitter public controversy between experts which continued into the early 20th century, as many of them did not believe prehistoric man had the intellectual capacity to produce any kind of artistic expression.

His return had been eagerly looked for by statesmen who hoped that he would resume his public career, by the Company which voted him an annual pension of £ 5, 000, and by the queen who earnestly prayed for the blessing of restored health and strength ; conversely, the outbreak of the " Sepoy Mutiny " led to bitter attacks on the record of his policy, and to widespread criticisms ( both fair and unfair ) of his political interests and career.

" This award, while certainly of major importance, never was reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, probably due to Carrington's bitter, acrimonious and public criticism of Cambridge University over the appointment of John Adams as the non-observing Director of the Cambridge Observatory ( added to Adams's pre-existing academic duties as the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry.

However, their insults to the new black, red, and gold German flag and bitter attacks on the representatives of the republic in the press and in public speeches became more frequent.

Explaining why he removed Daly, Peskin cited Daly's bitter public conflict with the mayor over budget priorities.