Sentence examples for bitter border from inspiring English sources

JUST last month the bitter border dispute between Argentina and Uruguay, supposedly two of Latin America's closest allies, appeared to be drawing to a close.

Mr. Waldheim worked closely with Mr. Gruber on a bitter border dispute with Yugoslavia, by then a Communist country under the leadership of Tito, the Partisans' wartime commander.

What better example of conflict resolution to press upon two rancorous rivals, Ethiopia and Eritrea, who in 1998-2000 fought a bitter border war that cost 70,000 lives?

SIEM REAP, Cambodia — Deepening a bitter border dispute, fighting erupted for a fourth day on Monday between Thai and Cambodian forces near a disputed 11th-century Hindu temple, and a Thailand military spokesman said the time for negotiations had passed.

The Pangong Lake, a remote region lying at almost 14,000 feet above sea level, has for decades been the focus of a bitter border dispute between China and India.

Fifteen years ago, Mr. Macklowe lost a bitter border war to Martha Stewart, his neighbor in the Hamptons, after he claimed that Ms. Stewart tore out 14 trees and bushes on his property to get a better view of Georgica Pond.

Among Paulos's achievements was the initiative which led to the series of peace meetings between Ethiopian and Eritrean religious leaders between 1998 and 2000, an attempt to bring peace to the two countries in response to their long and bitter long border war.

A sweet blin with creamed honey and pine nuts brought with it echoes of the pine forests of Siberia, washed down with bitter black border-hopping espresso.

During the Cold War, when a nasty ideological schism turned the Communist compatriots into bitter enemies, the border was sealed off with barbed wire and bunkers.

How to handle the country's gas reserves -- the largest in Latin America -- was a major issue in his downfall, in part because he planned to export gas through Chile, with which Bolivia has a bitter century-long border dispute.

Our correspondent says that in the 1970s, Somalia and Ethiopia fought a bitter war over their border area and as a consequence many Somalis, who are fiercely nationalist when faced by any foreign forces, have a particular hatred of Ethiopians.