Example sentences of "[adv] smarting from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A public fuss about sovereignty , the government reckons , might inflame feelings even more and touch off really ugly incidents , maybe bloodshed , in an area already smarting from the harsher side of unity , collapsing firms and soaring unemployment . |
| 2 | The company is still smarting from the rebuff it received in the senate finance committee . |
| 3 | Jack stayed where he was , his face still smarting from the punch . |
| 4 | Gaitskell ( now dominating Labour 's economic policy and still smarting from the defeat over Clow ) cut the allocations to electricity more than to the other fuel industries ( which the planners felt could meet energy demand at less capital cost ) . |
| 5 | As the 1976 national elections approached the Democrats were still smarting from the humiliations of 1972 when a badly divided party had nominated George McGovern and seen him overwhelmed by a landslide victory for Richard Nixon . |
| 6 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't look at me , ’ she said , still smarting from the display of affection he made towards his damp-eyed secretary . |
| 8 | To be honest I 'm still smarting from the various wounds she inflicted . |
| 9 | The Scottish Crofters ' Union , still smarting from the £2.25 cut in Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance per ewe , has recommended that more priority be given to new or recent entrants to crofting when sheep and cattle quotas are allocated from the national reserve . |
| 10 | Most important of all was the support of two powerful groups with special reasons for wanting a Democratic victory : the blacks , encouraged by Truman 's call for an end to discrimination ; and organized labour , bitterly smarting from the Taft-Hartley Act . |