But the fact remains that there are still young people in schools and there are still teachers who will hang on to the bitter end to provide their charges with the best quality education they can.
The European People's Party, the conservative parliamentary grouping that backed Mr Buttiglione to the bitter end, will try to ensure that other commissioners are also shifted.
At the time they were recording the album, all five band mates were going through painful breakups: The McVies were divorcing, Buckingham and Nicks' long-term relationship was coming to a bitter end and Fleetwood's wife was about to leave him for his best friend.
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But for Italy and their coach Cesare Prandelli it was a bitter end to a tournament which they had earlier graced with their imaginative performances.
To the bitter end, the bad-tempered Abuja summit was completely overshadowed by the Zimbabwe crisis.
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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Another contributor was the expansion of international peacekeeping forces, which really do keep the peace not always, but far more often than when adversaries are left to fight to the bitter end.
The White House even fought to the bitter end for a cap-and-trade bill that the House passed and would have imposed higher costs for electric power, transportation, manufacturing and most goods and services as this tax flowed down the energy chain.
The transfer brings to end the bitter wrangle between the two clubs, with Everton boss David Moyes accusing City of "disgusting" behaviour.
Rather, a desire to minimize and manage risk by both parties and to avoid a bitter and costly end, makes having an employment contract a smart idea.
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Last weekend lawmakers finally reached a compromise to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, and although nobody seemed particularly pleased with the specifics, the deal put an end to weeks of bitter wrangling.
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This is the kind of holiday we need right now, an intrinsically complicated one that comes at the end of a bitter harvest and yet finds something sweet to celebrate.
The endless, loud, bitter, accusatory political ads, commercials, and speeches will come to an end.
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And it's been a very bitter fight, so it strikes me as being pretty hard to put that together at the end of the day.
Serbia, which has surged economically since the end of its bitter wars with other former Yugoslav nations a decade ago, boasts a debt-to-gross domestic product ratio of 51%, well below Western European averages.
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