| To score 17 points in a game, and still lose, is a very bitter pill to swallow. |
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| Senator Boswell said while the agreement was a bitter pill to swallow, it was important to remember it did not leave the industry worse off. |
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| Many have swallowed the bitter pill and tried again, often with salutiferous effects. |
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| Defeat in this game was a bitter pill to swallow for all concerned, players, mentors and supporters because it should not have happened. |
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| This is a bitter pill to swallow after we had played so well since the new year, but we will be back. |
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| This, he reckons, is a bitter pill for Scots who quite enjoy wallowing in a perceived anti-Scottish backlash. |
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| I swallowed my first bitter pill from this beastly industry, and have certainly learned a valuable lesson. |
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| Cotterill admitted that seeing the game snatched from his side's grasp with extra time looming was a bitter pill to swallow. |
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| Exempting coffee and doughnuts does not make it easier to swallow this bitter pill. |
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| It is a bit difficult and it is a bitter pill to swallow for first nations people from coast to coast to coast. |
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| This is a bitter pill to swallow, but we have to face the facts pragmatically and without hypocrisy. |
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| The global division of labor keeps human rights in their place, as sugar-coating for the bitter pill of economic exclusion. |
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| It is sometimes a very bitter pill to swallow, but it can teach us some very salutary lessons. |
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| Clearly, it would hurt our world network, and it would hurt Star as a whole, but at some point we would have to swallow the bitter pill. |
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| Equalization payment reform has been a bitter pill for Quebec and Ontario and the provinces with offshore oil resources. |
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| Those ten Member States should be ashamed of themselves, and the country holding the presidency being one of them is a bitter pill to swallow. |
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| Not getting 5th last year is still a bitter pill to swallow, because David was handed the position on a silver platter. |
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| A home defeat is always a bitter pill, but this will show us who is a real fan and who is a fair weather fan. |
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| However there is a bitter pill that must be recognized and accepted by all for a restructuring to be effective. |
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| For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow. |
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| The divorce forced him to sell a collection of American Pre-Raphaelite paintings he had spent 15 years amassing, a bitter pill that many might have had trouble swallowing. |
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| But it also insists on applying a thick sugar coating to this very bitter pill. |
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| For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow. |
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| But even if Dr Weed were a flatterer with a less bitter pill to swallow, there would still be a host of challenges blocking his health-care cure. |
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| Compromise, however, has remained a bitter pill. |
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| There is one bitter pill for our group above all others to swallow, and that is the issue of renewable energies and the issue of the Euratom resources. |
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| Officials know that if this year's budget is a bitter pill to swallow, next year's will be a bitter horse pill. |
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| Even a bitter pill can be swallowed, so I don't exclude it,' Mohammad Farouq Sattar nonetheless admitted, adding that there was 'no final point in politics. |
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| This is a bitter pill to swallow, but necessary medicine if we are going to stop the bleeding connected with ongoing AECL subsidies and support of the CANDU line. |
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| By the final whistle at Murrayfield last night, the Australians were choking back the bitter pill of disappointment and defeat. |
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| In essence, it is about getting the Russian leadership to swallow the bitter pill of a US-dominated military alliance moving towards its country's borders. |
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| This should help sweeten the bitter pill of adapting our lifestyles, as well as contributing to smoothing over conflict between a comfortable, more modern way of life and more sustainable practices, explains the rapporteur. |
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| Finally, I wish governments would take good ideas and implement them, even if it means swallowing that bitter pill of humility because someone else thought of them first. |
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| The reference to development looks more and more like a stylistic device designed to make the poorest countries of the planet swallow the bitter pill of trade liberalization and market opening. |
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| Giving them amnesty would be a bitter pill for the U.S. to swallow. |
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| It was a bitter pill to swallow for Killeen, who at 30 could face a tough challenge to be among the world's best at the end of the next Olympic cycle in four years' time. |
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