reap a bitter harvest

Even now, faced with reaping a bitter harvest, he refused to admit his guilt.

09 Dec 2011 The Third World reaps a bitter harvest

Right or wrong, he's got to make his own way, Sulu thought, hoping that Curzon Dax wasn't about to reap a bitter harvest of destruction.

her last mistake was sadder than her first, and she was reaping a bitter harvest from her summer's sowing.

Not only is it being interpreted in Iraq and abroad as a blatant and unnecessary form of neocolonialism, it also threatens to reap a bitter harvest of anti-Americanism.

This resolution declared that they "unwaveringly denounce racism, in all its forms, as deplorable sin" and "lament and repudiate historic acts of evil such as slavery from which we continue to reap a bitter harvest."

Further, the resolution said, "We lament and repudiate historic acts of evil such as slavery from which we continue to reap a bitter harvest, and we recognize that the racism which yet plagues our culture today is inextricably tied to the past."