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In the process, she has provided a human face for an institution often associated with the prescription of bitter medicine.
Austerity and its DiscontentsAusterity is always a bitter pill, and one that a growing chorus of political and business leaders, economists, and voters is refusing to swallow.
First, there is the bitter legacy of Iran-France relations during Fabius’s stint as Prime Minister in 1984-1986, a period during which 96 foreigners – many of them French – were kidnapped by Iran’s allies in Lebanon.
However sudden the initial displacement, the impact can last for generations, together with a long-term need for clean water, shelter, health care, and other basic services, as victims of Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998 know from bitter experience.
Some Chinese scholars now question the wisdom of allowing the bitter anti-foreignism of the 19 th century to poison China's 21 st century diplomacy.
The bitter irony is that, at this suddenly inauspicious moment, Europe and the US are launching their most significant joint project since the creation of NATO – a transatlantic free-trade agreement.
Among China’s 500 million Internet users, for example, one senses a palpable rise in nationalist sentiment, reflected in bitter criticism of official “weakness” in defending Chinese interests.
In France, the debate has stalled altogether due to bitter distributive conflicts, deep division within the Left, and the Right's absence of an economic and social vision.
It has never been easy for a nation to face up honestly to the bitter fact of having committed war crimes, genocide, unjustified foreign aggression, or having mistreated and killed its own people.
Its style is almost scientific – factual, staccato-like, and unemotional – and it goes a long way toward meeting China’s demand for a convincing investigation and act of contrition that might allow the bitter and still poisonous past to be overcome.
It would be an immensely encouraging sign of China’s growing maturity if its leaders used this moment to look beyond the bitter past toward a new future with Japan.
That remark may have been a bitter payback for the role Spencer believed the media, and the paparazzi who worked for them, played in Diana’s death, but it was not without truth.
For Israel’s government, which had been embroiled in bitter controversies with the Obama administration for eight years, the Trump administration appeared to represent, in Netanyahu’s own words, “a new dawn.”
Yet there were also some bitter pills.
The dreadful result was the indiscriminate denial of civil rights and the principles of democracy, and the rise of what today’s leaders call “socialism with Chinese characteristics” – a bitter euphemism for unchecked Party and government power entwined with commercial interests.
And now adversity may be teaching not only Germany, but also the entire EU, some valuable lessons as well – that negotiation is better than bitter disputes, that help is most effective when it arrives early, and that implementing a much-needed strategy is better than trying to circumvent a problem.
John F. Kennedy chose his formerly bitter opponent, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Sadly, the region’s bitter geopolitical rivalries stand in the way, owing to the absence of an institutional framework to prevent, mitigate, and settle territorial disputes.
In 1992, its stupid insistence on strict Russian debt servicing of Soviet-era debts sowed the seeds for today’s bitter relations.
International investors are not likely to want to invest in these cities unless expectations of a price decline are built into the futures markets, as people in Tokyo understand from their own bitter experience.
For example, despite the bitter divisions generated by conservative leader Malcolm Fraser’s role in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s Labor Government in 1975, I spent a year as Labor Foreign Minister in the early 1990s campaigning for Fraser to be elected Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.
But the imprecision of the agreements reached at the summit in Toronto in June has left political leaders with a bitter taste in their mouths.
With unemployment running at 30-40%, the government faces a disenfranchised and increasingly bitter population.
ECB President Mario Draghi claims that “a sustained recovery is taking hold,” while policymakers in Berlin and Brussels latch onto signs of life in Spain and Ireland as proof that their bitter prescription of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms worked as advertised.
Moreover, this anomaly is compounded by the bitter irony that the British Prime Minister who handed these six million ‘souls’ (to use the old Russian term for such serfs) to Beijing was the same Iron Lady who valiantly went to war only two years earlier, in 1982, to free 12,000 settlers in the Falkland Islands from being occupied by the generals from Buenos Aires.
But the country's bitter and divisive presidential campaign will leave bad blood, and whoever becomes president will be unable to count on Cardoso's large and cohesive majorities in Congress.
Even two of America’s most important allies – Japan and South Korea – find themselves in a bitter dispute about the Korean “comfort women” forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during World War II, despite an official apology from Japan 20 years ago.
Yet my freedom has left a bitter aftertaste, because my imprisonment ended only as the war against my country began.
Germany’s current policy is all the more absurd in view of the bitter political and economic consequences that it would face.
Putin’s promise to restore national self-respect, shattered by Russia’s bitter loss of superpower status in 1991, is centered around cowing Europe into submissively accepting Russia’s sphere of “privileged interest” in the post-Soviet nations.
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