Which is that you present a united front, and then you fight bitterly behind closed doors to figure out who's up and who's down.
Put a good face on it, go to work, and bitch and moan bitterly behind closed doors until the ship's management, for morale, throws an occasional crew party or commandeers the theater's big screen for a crew viewing of There's Something About Mary.
During a brief court hearing, Ms. Gordillo, dressed in a simple T-shirt and beige pants, stared out bitterly from behind the bars of a prison courtroom as the charges were read against her.
Instead of bitterly lining up behind some fraudulent doctrine of antagonism, we can dare to meet each other as we are, and begin thinking through political life accordingly.
BEHIND THE NEWS The bitterly contested project was held in check for years by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, whose family's seaside compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., faces the site; he died last August.
An intense anticyclone over north-west Russia is behind the bitterly cold easterly winds that have swept across Europe and some climate scientists say the lack of Arctic sea ice brought about by global warming is responsible.
NEWS President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a struggle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of sight, in hospitals in Havana and Caracas.
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a struggle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of sight, in hospitals in Havana and Caracas.
Tong Yao, his first girlfriend and the only woman he ever truly loved (her name means nursery rhyme), remains behind in the bitterly cold north.
A rather backhanded compliment from someone he kept thinking was a guardian angel; later, she bitterly derided his first novel, behind his back, partly on the grounds that he hadn't worked long enough at it: "The mystery about Bill is to me how he can talk in conversation with such maturity yet when it comes to writing write in so callow a manner of thinking and vocabulary".
He delivered a defiant speech, urging this country's bitterly divided political forces to unite behind a plan to combat corruption and poverty.
