For industrialists paying reluctantly to clean up their act, that must be a bitter pill.
In contrast, social is a patience game, which for many can be a bitter pill.
Her prescription is to "fess up" and take the bitter pill that is cost evaluation.
Otherwise, they will have a bitter pill to swallow when change is forced upon them.
"It's a sweet bitter pill to swallow, " said Isaac Abraham, a spokesman for the community.
For parliament member Mustafa Alush(ph), nominating another general was a bitter pill to swallow.
Kosovo's Albanians will be happy with this but they will have a bitter pill to swallow too.
The latter can be a bitter pill so you may jump at the streamlined program.
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Making matters worse, this is not a bitter pill that only the rich must swallow.
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"To play in the second half down to 10 men is a bitter pill to swallow, " added Hodgson.
Some Democrats are hoping to make the bitter pill easier to swallow by securing other provisions they favor.
The U.K. is about the only country in this mess that has already taken the bitter pill of realignment.
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Wadsworth, who was also caretaker manager of the team, said the latest news was a bitter pill to swallow.
It is Netanyahu's duty to swallow this bitter pill and devise a strategy to protect Israel from their madness.
The foreign-exchange related lawsuits are also a bitter pill for investors to swallow.
That will horrify the Serbs: if losing Montenegro was a bitter pill, losing Kosovo will be a poison draught.
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For home owners struggling with their mortgages, and especially for the unemployed, this may be a bitter pill to swallow.
"It was a bitter pill to swallow, the government admitting that they needed the church, " says Archbishop Wenski, the Miami prelate.
For some candidates, Tuesday's results are likely to be a bitter pill.
And how Pompey fans enjoyed the sight of their former manager being forced to swallow the bitter pill of defeat at the final whistle.
It's a bitter pill, especially as the economic recession bites deeper.
"The number of people working there has been squeezed and squeezed over the years and the prospect of significant job cuts is a bitter pill to swallow, " Mr Dawson said.
The failure of Iraq to emerge from widespread instability is a bitter pill for the United States, which optimistically toppled the Saddam Hussein regime more than four years ago.
So, yes, the healthcare industry is hiring, but the financial and educational reality of these in-demand jobs might turn out to be a bitter pill for potential workers to swallow.
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This could mean cuts of well over half a billion pounds each year for Wales - a bitter pill for Welsh ministers after a decade and more of constant increases from the treasury.
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But the sugar industry argued this change would be a bitter pill for US consumers and would only add to the confusion about a sweetener that has drawn criticism by some health advocates.
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Further territorial compromises (having already been squeezed into 22% of pre-1948 Palestine) could also be a bitter pill for the Palestinian faction that favours a two-state solution, the Fatah party led by Mahmoud Abbas.
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In the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, from which the Glaubers hailed, the arrest is "a sweet bitter pill to swallow because it's good news but on a very sad story, " said community leader and family friend Isaac Abraham.
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