But, as in Argentina in the 1980s (Britain's too when cornered), domestic politics took over.
The discovery of the "holy grail of shipwrecks" off the coast of Colombia this week has provoked a three-cornered fight over ownership of the gold, emeralds and other treasures on the ocean floor.
Cornered, she reaches over her shoulder into her back-pack, retrieves an orange bottle, and drinks its contents.
But her credit cards kept getting declined perhaps most notoriously, she stiffed a luxury hotel in Morocco and cornered a friend into putting over 60 grand on their company card to bail them out.
Porsche, however, which is taking over the company, had secretly cornered nearly 75percentt of VW stock.
The student also ran into a spot of bother recently when he was forced to move out of a flat after just two months when his diehard feminist flatmates cornered him 'for several hours' over his controversial views and online video posts.
The villains are cornered and arrested (triumph of good over evil).
All this might be of only derivative concern for the Asia region were there now not also signs that some in Japan, feeling marginalized if not cornered, were resorting to nationalistic impulses over disputed territories.
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Periodically, the school would rush forward, probably to fight over some hapless shrimp they cornered in the turtle grass.
