Sentence examples for Bitter cold war from inspiring English sources

Slatkin's clever, pointed programming allowed him to end with the bitter, cold war realities of Vaughan Williams' Sixth Symphony, though he failed to take it to the requisite angry extremes.

Outside the gates in St. Peter's Square that day in September, Obama's two lead negotiators paused to marvel at their Vatican blessing – the seal they believed would finally thaw the diplomatic freeze between two bitter Cold War enemies.

Virtually all missiles on land are ready for launch in two minutes, and those on four submarines--two in the Atlantic and two in the Pacific--are ready to launch on 15 minutes' notice, officers say". Prior to the Soviet Union's dismantling, the threat to use nuclear weapons was conditionally justified, from a moral point of view, by the existence of a bitter Cold War between East and West.

Few on either side of the already rancorous debate over the pact could remember many major treaties -- even going back to bitter Cold War-era arguments over arms control -- that headed toward the Senate in such tattered shape.

The barriers started to fall away in 1995, when it was decided to admit Vietnam, ASEAN's bitter cold-war enemy.

This defeat to their bitter Cold-War adversary, aligned with the failure to avenge the events of 1972, a beating in the semi-finals of the World Championships to Yugoslavia in 1990 – not to mention a bewildering loss to Brazil in the Pan-American Games in 1987 – resulted in a huge loss of face for the US team.

Convenient elisions of this kind helped sow the bitter discords of the cold war, the era in which Government secrecy assumed its most treacherous proportions.

Liberals concerned about human rights in China now often find themselves in an unlikely coalition with arch-conservatives, who were their bitter opponents during the cold war over issues such as Central America.

At times, the taunts from the podium recalled the bitter diatribes of the Cold War.

The Soviet Union long maintained that the flight was a spy plane sent by the United States, and the attack endures in public memory as one of the last, bitterest engagements of the cold war.

Others believe his art was never to recover its former glories as the great showman and extrovert found himself enmeshed in the increasingly bitter propaganda battles of the Cold War.