It was the first time that Iranian aircraft had been known to fire at an American drone, one of the many ways that the United States has sought to monitor developments in Iran over more than three decades of estrangement between the two countries.
His departure from the standards of Brunelleschi produced an estrangement between the two old friends that was never repaired.
The growing estrangement between these two giants of American foreign policy was as sad as it was inevitable.
The reëstablishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba on Monday puts a formal end to more than a half century of estrangement between the two countries.
Though Charles was active in Bristol and London, his interference with his brother's proposed marriage to Grace Murray caused an estrangement between the two, and Charles withdrew from active leadership of the Methodist societies.
The talks, however, reflected the end of a decade-long estrangement between the two countries, motivated in large degree by Russia's sense that it might have spotted a valuable commercial market.
HAVANA — Secretary of State John F. Kerry presided over the official reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba under a blazing Caribbean sun Friday morning, declaring an end to "too many days of sacrifice and, sorry, too many days of suspicion and fear" during more than half a century of estrangement between the two countries.
That calamity capped several months of growing estrangement between the two nominal allies.
During that time numerous attempts were made to thaw Iran-U.S. relations, such as when the U.S. wrestling team traveled to Iran in February of 1998 and were welcomed by Iranian officials with flowers, or when President Clinton made a speech before the Iran-U.S. match at the 1998 World Cup in France, "another step toward ending the estrangement between" the two countries (Iran won 2-1).
It then becomes the centre of contention and estrangement between the three adults and Ada's daughter and takes on a powerful identity of its own, symbolising culture, sexuality and suppressed desire in this brave new world.
