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bitterly and fought
Through the most rancorous battles of political controversy and the most bitterly fought national and presidential campaigns his character shines as an example of dignity and honesty, forthrightness and nobility.
This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.
And in a series of bitterly fought battles in the jungles and hills and along the great rivers of Burma he waged one of the most brilliant campaigns of the war.
The diamond has belonged to various Hindu, Rajput, Mughal, Iranian, Afghan, Sikh and British rulers who fought bitterly over it and seized it as a spoil of war time and time again.
However, the Arab invasions came at a time when both ancient powers were exhausted from the protracted Byzantine – Sassanid Wars, particularly the bitterly fought Byzantine – Sassanid War of 602 – 628 which had brought both empires close to collapse.
Today, modern American liberalism, and modern American conservatism are engaged in a continuous political battle, characterized by what the Economist describes as " greater divisiveness close, but bitterly fought elections.
Indonesia declared independence in 17 August 1945 and subsequently fought a bitter war against the returning Dutch ; the Philippines was granted independence by the United States in 1946 ; Burma secured their independence from Britain in 1948, and the French were driven from Indochina in 1954 after a bitterly fought war ( the Indochina War ) against the Vietnamese nationalists.
Powell further claimed that even if nuclear weapons had not existed, the Russians would still not have invaded Western Europe: " What has prevented that from happening was ... the fact that the Soviet Union knew ... that such an action on its part would have led to a third world war -— a long war, bitterly fought, a war which in the end the Soviet Union would have been likely to lose on the same basis and in the same way as the corresponding war was lost by Napoleon, by the Emperor Wilhelm and by Adolf Hitler.
The Northumbria on which Eirik set foot was one which had been bitterly fought over between the West-Saxon kings and the Hiberno-Norse line of descendants from Ímair, kings of Dublin.
In a contest estimated to have cost a quarter of the total spending in the entire country, Fox bitterly fought against two Pittite candidates to secure one of the two seats for the constituency.
After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status.
This was bitterly fought by the landowners under contract and by certain members of the Town Board.
Whatever the cause of the fight for the town, it rapidly escalated into a large and bitterly fought engagement, continuing well after night had fallen and resulting in about 4, 000 casualties to each side, including Barclay, who was shot in the arm and forced to leave the battlefield.
"), but instead fought bitterly ( and hilariously ) for weeks, before realizing they cared for each other.
The battle was bitterly fought with Norris at one point remarking to a Conservative colleague that he would never support Archer " alive or dead ".
Throughout these campaigns, Bragg fought almost as bitterly against some of his uncooperative subordinates as he did against the enemy, and they made multiple attempts to have him replaced as army commander.
The paper opposed Davíð in the bitterly fought 2003 parliamentary election when there was talk of corruption, bribery and abuse of the police.
It was fought for 20 years, and bitterly the Ostrogoths were finally subjugated.
Hume and Hovell fought bitterly over the frying-pan, which fell apart in their hands.
They bitterly fought President Andrew Johnson ; they weakened his powers and almost removed him from office through impeachment.
In 1956 the All Blacks won its first series over the Springboks, in what Chris Hewett called " in the most bitterly fought series in history.
The Act was bitterly fought by unions, vetoed by President Harry S. Truman, and passed over his veto.
Exactly one week later, he cemented his position as a major threat to Clinton when he eked out a narrow win in the bitterly fought Connecticut primary.

bitterly and race
In 1984 he lost a bitterly contested race for the U. S. Senate seat held by Jesse Helms, and left elective politics for several years.
An advisory primary election was held among Fayette County Republicans in March 1896, in which Daugherty narrowly won a bitterly fought race.
In 1986, Curb ran again for lieutenant governor as the Republican nominee against the incumbent Democrat Leo T. McCarthy in a bitterly contested race that largely centered around punishment for drug trafficking and violent crimes.
Santos is forced to remain neutral while Democrats pick a new Speaker of the House, and he declines to tip the race in favor of his political mentor, Congressman Tim Fields ( D-TX ), who bitterly ends up losing out to Congressman Mark B. Sellner, a moderate Democrat who opposes Santos ' centerpiece anti-lobbying bill.
In the 2007 general election, Karcher lost her bid for another term in a bitterly fought race against Republican Party candidate Jennifer Beck.

bitterly and saw
Trotsky was so upset by what he saw as a usurpation of his newspaper's name that in April 1913 he wrote a letter to Nikolay Chkheidze, a Menshevik leader, bitterly denouncing Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
However, two Boro goals saw the Saints left bitterly disappointed.
Upon his return to Greece, he found himself bitterly resented for his attachment to the minority party that saw no difficulty in a reconciliation of the two churches.
Lady Carnarvon saw this as blackmail and persuaded her new husband to take his wife to court for what Sir Henry McCardie, who tried the case, called " the most bitterly conducted litigation I have ever known ".
Nevertheless, the division remained in Syria over Christmas, during which time they endured a bitterly cold winter that saw heavy snow falls.
Lane bitterly opposed what he saw as the President's hesitation to commit the country to war.
I saw crowds of them along railway lines in bitterly cold weather, in pouring rain – hungry, sick, dying and dead.
There were reports he wept bitterly when he saw the aftermath of the crash.
Its style was thoroughly derivative of Caravaggio ( who had recently emerged as a rival for Church commissions ) and a clear challenge to the recent Amor, and the younger painter bitterly protested at what he saw as the plagiarism.
It was bitterly resented by nationalists who saw the Act as being deliberately designed to suppress their identity.

bitterly and charge
Nevertheless, he refused to support stripping Joseph McCarthy, the leading figure in the Red Scare, of his major Senate committee chairmanships, cautioning that " many of those who bitterly oppose Senator McCarthy call for the same tactics that they charge him with.

bitterly and was
Directly opposite the door was a roaring log fire, a welcome sight on that bitterly cold day.
Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose.
Grazie was mean: quietly mean, and bitterly, unfunnily sarcastic.
In time, and two drinks later, he was complaining bitterly about his wife, He was on the subject for ten minutes or so when he noticed the renewed interest in his listener -- it showed in the alert face and the suddenly bright eyes.
His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!
Mozart complained bitterly of the intrigues surrounding this incident in a letter to his friend Gottfried von Jacquin that was written in stages between 15 October and 25 October 1787.
From 1517, during the years of Ottoman control, custody of the Basilica was bitterly disputed between the Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.
Lloyd George offered a degree of support to the Labour government in the hope of winning concessions, including a degree of electoral reform to introduce the alternative vote, but this support was to prove bitterly divisive as the Liberals increasingly divided between those seeking to gain what Liberal goals they could achieve, those who preferred a Conservative government to a Labour one and vice-versa.
Yan Xishan continued in his attempts to work with both sides, creating the impression among Li's supporters that he was a " stooge " of Chiang, while those who supported Chiang began to bitterly resent Yan for his willingness to work with Li.
Yet he was ever more bitterly accused of having started the whole " tragedy " ( as the Roman Catholics dubbed Protestantism ).
He was rejected for military service in World War I, which he bitterly resented.
Goebbels was bitterly disillusioned.
Domestically, Roman politics was bitterly divided.
His contribution to the society was significant but short-lived: after collaborating with Withering on his Botanical Arrangement of British Plants the two quarrelled bitterly and Stokes severed his relations with the main Lunar members by 1788.
This was bitterly noted by Davis, who claimed the invention of the cool style and resented the success that was later enjoyed — in large part because of the media's attention — by white " cool jazz " musicians ( Mulligan and Dave Brubeck in particular ).
Kinnock supported the aim of the strike – which he famously dubbed the " case for coal " – but, as an MP from a mining area, was bitterly critical of the tactics employed.
The switchover was bitterly opposed by much of the populace, who feared it was an attempt by landlords to cheat them out of a week and a half's rent.
Gosse had prayed regularly that he might not taste death but meet Christ in the air at his Second Coming, and he was bitterly disappointed when he realized that he would die like everyone else.
With the Kongo king Afonso I complaining in 1526 to his Portuguese counterpart, John III, bitterly of the damage done to his kingdom by this trade, which was depopulating whole areas and leading to constant wars with his neighbors.
During the English Civil War anything which tended to prolong the struggle, or seemed like want of energy and avoidance of a decision, was bitterly resented by the men of both sides.

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