Sentences with phrase «bitter race»

So acrimonious has their relationship been that not only have they had bitter races against each other, but their sons have, too.

But pundits say the Vergara decision has also energized the already bitter race for state superintendent of schools — a contest where simmering hostilities over education reforms, mostly among Democrats, have broken into the mainstream.

The message from UKIP is that Corbyn Labour is unpatriotic, an enemy of the armed services and supportive of «uncontrolled mass immigration» — this in a town with a large Muslim population where bitter race riots took place in 2001.

February 9 — West Ham United have beaten Tottenham Hotspur in the bitter race to take over the 2012 Olympic stadium after next year's London games, it was reported tonight.

The Momentum chief will go head - to - head with Unite official and fellow Labour national executive committee member Jennie Formby in what is likely to be a bitter race to succeed Iain McNicol in the powerful role.

Gibson's Kinderhook, Columbia County, neighbor John Faso faces Andrew Heaney in the Republican primary, and it has been a bitter race.

Andrew Heaney faces John Faso in the Republican primary, and it has been a bitter race.

State Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin and Deputy County Executive Christopher Meyer — who is backed by retiring County Executive Kathy Jimino — are running in a bitter race on the Republican side.

Starting in 1972 — at the age of 16 — Malloy has campaigned for numerous candidates, including Edmund Muskie of Maine in the bitter race against liberal Democrat George McGovern.

Grayson left Congress last year after losing the Democratic primary for Florida's Senate seat in a bitter race against then - fellow Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, who went on to lose to GOP incumbent Marco Rubio.

Wisconsin Democrats declared victory on Tuesday night after Milwaukee Judge Rebecca Dallet won a bitter race for a seat on the state's Supreme Court.

Antoine Thompson said he wanted to avoid a «bitter race» against incumbent Tim Kennedy.

In his account of the bitter race to catalog human DNA, James Shreeve shows that at least part of the hostility toward Venter was bureaucratic, not personal.