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Indeed, in the late Bush era, Hill became a kind of bete noire for Cheney.

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A miasma of lunchtime kick-offs, the bete noir of all serious football fans, will now determine who is promoted to the Premier League and who will make the play-offs.

Endless sprawl of fixtures fills cups with thin gruel and a bad taste | Paul Hayward 2011

Even Boutin, long a bete-noire for gay-rights groups, has "eased up" on her positions on issues of homosexuality over the years, Corbin said.

French Gay Marriage Ban Is Constitutional: Watchdog AP 2011

Even Boutin, long a bete-noire for gay-rights groups, has "eased up" on her positions on issues of homosexuality over the years, Corbin said.

France girds for debate after 'no' to gay marriage 2011

Mitt Romney before being adopted by Democrats and becoming a bete noire of conservatives.

An interview with Mark Pauly, father of the individual mandate Ezra Klein 2011

At the same time, inflation is the historical bete noir of the Brazilian economy.

Brazil Raises Key Interest Rate; Move is Smaller John Lyons 2011

Squaring up yet again, Ian Shuttleworth of the Financial Times and his bete noir, Tim Walker of the Sunday Telegraph.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

Hoover's bete noire -- and the one man he could not break -- was Martin Luther

A Conversation with James Ellroy author of The Cold Six Thousand 2010

Wooller was our bete noire; the first time I ever heard boos on a sports field was one afternoon at Cheltenham when he came out to bat.

Madcap Wilf Wooller created my Glamorgan angst | Frank Keating 2011

Right-to-work laws make union membership and dues voluntary for all workers, and they are thus the bete noire of labor unions, which see them as a threat to their political clout.

Show Me the Jobs 2011