This is a nightmare scenario, but it is not far fetched.

We must seize the opportunity to ensure that our worst nightmare never becomes our waking reality.

The women who were currently members of the National Assembly had gotten there after a hard struggle.

His leadership will be sorely tested in the electoral campaign, and also in his presidency should he triumph.

Italy invaded Greece by way of Albania on 28 October 1940, but Greek troops repelled the invaders after a bitter struggle (see Greco Italian War).

And one of the soldiers wrote home, and this is the sentence that he put The struggle between right and six dollars a month and wrong and 75 dollars a day is a rather severe one.

Bitter controversy marked Jonathan s ascension to power in May 2010, following the death of President Umaru Yar Adua after only three years in office.

Indeed, Santos and Uribe, members of the same political party and once close allies, are now embroiled in a bitter dispute, with Uribe emerging as Santos s most visible opponent.

That remark may have been a bitter payback for the role Spencer believed the media, and the paparazzi who worked for them, played in Diana s death, but it was not without truth.

For better or worse, fighting epidemics like Ebola or preventing the most harmful consequences of climate change requires solidarity and cooperation. Retreating into unilateralism, ultra nationalism, or the politics of identity will produce nothing but a bitter, fragmented, parochial, and dangerous world.

The fact that there has been no major nuclear terrorist attack should not lull us into a fall sense of security. The threat remains.

The dreadful result was the indiscriminate denial of civil rights and the principles of democracy, and the rise of what today s leaders call socialism with Chinese characteristics a bitter euphemism for unchecked Party and government power entwined with commercial interests.

Fortunately for Moscow, its major enemies, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden, were engaged in a bitter conflict with each other, which provided Russia the opportunity to make peace with Sweden in 1617 and to sign a truce with the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1619.

Barely a month after the rejection of the European Union Constitution in France and the Netherlands, the EU Summit in Brussels ended in a surprisingly acrimonious orgy of national egoisms and no deal. Then the terrorists struck in London.

This would not only be good economics, but also good politics, since it could unite the world in our common interest, rather than dividing the world in a bitter struggle over diminishing oil, gas, and coal reserves.