But today the U.S. finds itself entangled in the bitter rivalry between the two Koreas.
As a study in the bitter politics of resistance, however, it would be hard to improve on.
The operation marked the latest saga in the bitter back-and-forth over Israel's settlement activity in the West Bank.
Reports say more people have lost their lives in the bitter cold in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand states.
In the bitter phrase of Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom he sparred for years, he preferred to view men like ants.
In the bitter cold, Mr. Gut gave us another demonstration on lines.
During the coldest days in Antarctica, she was deliberately dehydrating herself to avoid the need to get undressed in the bitter frost.
Could the Welsh Government be planning to intervene in the bitter - and escalating - row over neonatal intensive care in North Wales?
Players start the season in the oppressive heat and humidity of July in training camp and finish in the bitter cold of December and January.
Al-Hakim had always propagated a message of peace, calling on Iraqis to stop taking part in the bitter sectarian conflict that followed the fall of Hussein.
Among the 30 or so people waiting outside the shiny riverside buildings at St George Wharf in the bitter cold were students Hiam Aldroubi, 22, and Reem Binkhamis, 25.
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Gore's lawyers and other plaintiffs filed a combined lawsuit, which marks the latest twist in the bitter political and legal battle to determine the winner of the presidential contest in Florida.
Partisan warfare in the 1990s, including the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton, made many Americans cynical about congressional investigation, as it seemed to be just another tool in the bitter culture of Capitol Hill.
West Bank (CNN) -- Hundreds of Israeli police swarmed a makeshift Palestinian protest camp pre-dawn Sunday and arrested activists, an operation that marked the latest saga in the bitter back-and-forth over Israel's settlement activity in the West Bank.
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Thousands of supporters are bused in -- totally out of proportion to the size of the state -- to stand for hours in massed ranks in the bitter cold, entreating passing motorists at street corners to honk their horns to show support.
Imagine the heat in the summer, the bitter cold in the winter, and Mandela going out to quarry stone, the burning white light reflecting off the limestone permanently and deeply injuring his sight.
Wigan re-claimed top spot in the Tetley Bitter Super League after being made to fight hard by the Wildcats who stunned the home side especially in the first half.
Less than 20 years ago, the fledgling nation of Croatia was in the throes of the bitter Croatian War of Independence as it declared sovereignty from Yugoslavia.
Sir Leonard had travelled north with the permission of the NIO to meet the cardinal and his Church of Ireland counterpart, Archbishop John Armstrong, in the wake of the bitter hunger strike of the previous year.
For example, if Romney had stayed in the race to the bitter end in 2008, he would almost certainly have come in second.
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The most recent cause was a football match in October between the bitter Glasgow rivals, Rangers (mainly Protestant) and Celtic (mainly Catholic).
He searches for the origins of the domestic apple in Kazakhstan to tell an evolutionary tale which explains how every eating apple in the world is a direct descendent of apples in the Tien Shan forest (the bitter taste of apple pips is cyanide, their shape adapted to slip through the guts of a marauding bear unharmed).
The singer is in a bitter feud with the government over accusations that she demanded VIP treatment, including at the airport, while visiting last week.
The 105th Archbishop of Canterbury has his work cut out to heal the bitter divisions in the global Anglican Communion, which are nowhere more apparent than over the fraught issue of homosexuality.
In 2000, the two engaged in an at times bitter contest for the Republican presidential nomination.
The clash over the Aldabra tortoise ranks as one of the most murky and bitter in the ICZN's 118-year history.
In a second rescue above the Ogwen Valley, three people from Warwick had called for help in the snow and bitter wind.
Mr Sadr's 30-strong block of followers in parliament, which has 275 members, was the largest faction in the ruling Shia alliance and had backed Mr Maliki as prime minister largely to stop the post going to the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), their bitter rivals in the Shia alliance.
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The contempt order is the latest escalation in one of the most bitter and contentious business divorces among hedge fund owners that Greenwich has ever seen.
The old-fashioned idea of democracy meaning that elections are held, the majority wins, and then both sides pretty much pull together and work for the good of the country until the next election, went away in the late 1990s, replaced by the pre-election differences continuing and becoming even more bitter and divisive in the years after elections.
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