71.   And some provincial governors are beginning to refuse to implement policies seen as bitter pills prescribed by the International Monetary Fund in exchange for loans.

72.   But they have taken it as a bitter pill.

73.   But hearing them from perceived enemies is one thing, and hearing them from those perceived as friendly is a much less bitter pill.

74.   Defeat was a bitter pill to swallow for Ivanisevic.

75.   For many surviving veterans the end of the war was nothing but a defeat, a bitter pill which had to be swallowed.

76.   The order was apparently a bitter pill for France, one of the larger aid donors to Mozambique.

77.   The penalty will be a bitter pill for Lancashire.

78.   The talks between Solana and Primakov are only a small part of extensive negotiations NATO has launched in a bid to make Russia swallow the bitter pill of expansion.

79.   To know that I am no longer fit enough to do justice to myself or my team-mates is a bitter pill to swallow.

80.   Such a warning would be a particularly bitter pill for Germany to swallow.