11.   After a week of the sour taste of reality, major league baseball owners gave in Monday.

12.   But a sour taste remained, both among the fans who jeered the slow-moving riders and the riders themselves, who are still spurning the press.

13.   But his clashes with the Red Sox front office and stormy departure because of a contract dispute three years ago left a sour taste.

14.   But it was how they lost that left such a sour taste.

15.   But no amount of public cordiality or tinkering with exchange rates could dispel the sour taste of economic anxiety that is plaguing Japan and much of Europe.

16.   But parents can also make the games far too serious, leaving a sour taste for everyone involved.

17.   But part of the sour taste was soon washed away by the Thai cultural evening that Silversea had arranged afterward, with handicrafts, music and dance.

18.   But like so many other world-class athletes, only Johnson knows if the sour taste is too much to handle.

19.   Clemens is the kind of pressure that could leave a sour taste in so many mouths, especially if it is the Rangers who get him.

20.   Dafoe said the entire experience has left a sour taste in his mouth.