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In a conflict as bitter, protracted, and complex as the war in Syria, it is all too easy to become overwhelmed by despair.
The parties may have looked like bitter rivals, but they resembled each other in that they did not appeal to extremes, but fought for the political center.
The deal is a bitter pill to swallow for those who campaigned for Brexit in the name of saving money for the UK’s National Health Service.
They are comfortable with protracted uncertainty about who is right even in bitter debates, conceding gaps in their knowledge and granting legitimacy to opposing views.
Dangerfield based his diagnosis on a cross-section of institutions, politics, and personalities, set against the bitter class warfare of the time.
Moreover, the armed forces have become a shadow of their former self, and still have human rights legacies hanging over them from the country’s bitter civil war.
But the battle – and even the victory – has left a bitter taste.
The country’s mushrooming instability has triggered a bitter debate in the United States about the long-term viability of Musharraf’s military-backed government and whether US financial support for Pakistan should continue.
Syria is part of the extensive proxy war between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia that plays out in the battlefields of Syria and Yemen and in bitter Shia-Sunni confrontations in Bahrain and other divided countries in the region (including Saudi Arabia itself).
There is no indication that Bush will begin to grasp this bitter reality during the remaining months of his term.
Sir Ivan Rogers, who was forced to resign last month as the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU because he questioned May’s negotiating approach, predicted this week a “gory, bitter, and twisted” breakup between Britain and Europe.
Now, in the twilight of his remarkable papacy, Pope John Paul II appears to be presiding over the splintering of those once loyal divisions, and the creation of a bitter divide within the Church of his homeland.
Sensing the bitter frustration of Moscow’s middle class-in-waiting, Yeltsin quickly gained a reputation as a harsh, if not always coherent, critic of the party’s old guard.
There will be bitter resistance here, however, for the interests of strong political forces are at stake.
Today, looking at the cavernous gulf between rich and poor, the irresponsibility that caused the global financial crisis, and the weak and divided responses to climate change, I feel bitter.
But this has a bitter undertone: the IMF must now clean up the mess in emerging countries caused by a financial crisis whose origin lay elsewhere.
As recent bitter experience has shown, China’s government cannot continue to stimulate the economy by pursuing debt-financed investments.
Similarly, he reminds his followers that the El Hakims, who head the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and their “Badr” militia were subsidized exiles in Iran – many fighting for Iran in the long and bitter Iran-Iraq war – until the Americans “brought them back.”
But while the war took the flower of Europe’s youth to premature graves, snuffing out the lives of a generation of talented poets, artists, cricketers, and others whose genius bled into the trenches, it also involved soldiers from faraway lands that had little to do with Europe’s bitter traditional hatreds.
But, if Assad’s regime is sufficiently weakened and his removal – whether through military collapse or a palace coup – becomes imminent, Russia may decide to cut its losses rather than further damage its credibility in the Arab world by supporting Assad’s regime to the bitter end.
But on the night of November 9th, when the wall and the barbed wire which had failed to irrevocably divide Germans over many decades of bitter separation began to crumble, communism's collapse became irreversible.
The bitter experience of the past few months must be transformed into the will to reengage in dialogue and cooperation.
Until they do, the easy availability of guns all but ensures that massacres like the one in Aurora remain a bitter American refrain.
This is not to say that religious sentiment or, in the case of Germany, bitter historical experience stemming from the Nazi era, had not informed other European debates, say, on the ethics of stem-cell research.
During the Republican primary, she worked for the “super PAC” that backed Trump’s bitter rival, Ted Cruz.
His political opponent – Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych – is violently opposing that move, fueling a bitter constitutional struggle that ultimately will settle Ukraine’s future orientation.
Many conflicts took place between the latter and the rest, and the great empire’s colossal collapse left a bitter taste in the mouths of all.
Though the world's newest country emerged from a bitter civil war between Christians and Muslims, the independence referendum received 99% support.
Retreating into unilateralism, ultra-nationalism, or the politics of identity will produce nothing but a bitter, fragmented, parochial, and dangerous world.
If Germany wants the rest of Europe to swallow the bitter pill of fiscal retrenchment, it will eventually have to recognize the implicit quid pro quo.
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