Hagel simply said the truth, something that sounds as a bitter wake-up call to conservatives, whether old and new, who convince themselves that the US can intervene in foreign countries, even friendly, and determine the course of their history.
The recent accidents have been a bitter wake-up call, reminding all actors that it is imperative and urgent to revive the needed international support on this issue, in order to stop once for ever this avoidable horror", declared the UNICEF Representative in Guinea Bissau, Silvia Luciani.
He was bitter about "Finnegan's Wake," which he expected to cause a lot more excitement..
This article has been footnoted Liverpool is preparing to host the Labour conference in the wake of bitter infighting between party factions.
In the wake of bitter clashes between Mr Woodhead and MPs on the Commons education select committee, Mr Blunkett and Mr Blair spoke on Wednesday night.
Mr. Obama's order follows in the wake of bitter court battles over the delivery of care and persistent reports of egregious delays in the delivery of mental-health services and the handling of disability claims.
The publishers' decision to defy parliament by setting up Ipso was the culmination of years of often bitter controversy in the wake of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal and the subsequent inquiry into press standards and ethics by another senior judge, Sir Brian Leveson.
A film he was to star in about the Silk Road, written by Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's president, seems however to have broken down in the wake of bitter family infighting – but they'll always have the duet they recorded together, How Dare.
There were bitter recriminations in the wake of the first fight between Froch and Groves at the Manchester Arena.
On constitutional amendments, the edge always goes with the defense, so that this decision will stand, leaving bitter wounds in its wake.
The next day, you'll wake up bitter and resentful.
