By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

It was a bitter defeat. But it made the North recognize the need for a real army one trained and equipped for war.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Harrison caught a cold, probably from standing so long outside in the bitter weather of inaugural day.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

The public saw the elections as a sign of hope that reasonable people might find a way to settle the bitter dispute over slavery.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

He already was fighting a bitter struggle against rebels in the South.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Many southerners believe,even today, that reconstruction was a bitter time of defeat.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Two years of a bitter, bloody civil war started to show their effects on both the Confederate states of the South and the Union states of the North.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Neither name was friendly. Southern whites had a reason to be bitter.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Andrew Johnson soon found himself in a bitter struggle with Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Such a battle was sure to begin a bitter civil war.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

And,in May 2007 a new power-sharing government took over administration of Northern Ireland with bitter foes agreeing to sit together.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Hours earlier,the 59-year-old self-made millionaire had backed away from earlier statements,and agreed to accept his bitter rival, as president of a transitional government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The comments came as the department released a report, mandated by Congress, cataloguing alleged war crimes in the bitter fighting on the northern tip of Sri Lanka early this year that led to the final government rout of separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22