Sentence examples for historical bitterness from inspiring English sources
Add the historical bitterness between Iraq's ethnic groups, stoked by Mr Hussein's mass killings and by the 1980-88 withwIranIrand and finding a solution may well be impossible.Even the largest factions on Iraq's political scene can claim no more than around one-eighth of the seats in parliament.
On such occasions, when collective memory condemns communities to feel the pain of their historical wounds and the bitterness of their historical grievances it is not the duty to remember but a duty to forget that should be honoured.
Andrzej Wajda had a viable claim to be Poland's great national artist of modern times, a virtual cinematic folk memory, a man who sought to intervene in Poland's history with his movies, converting the ashes of bitterness and historical agony into diamonds of film.
The largest borderland groups, drawn from ethnic groups like the Wa, Shan and Kokang, are united in their bitterness over their historical domination by the Burman.
The rapacious Japanese occupation of China is a deeply sensitive historical topic here, a source of persistent personal bitterness and of frosty exchanges between the Chinese and Japanese governments.
Two years ago, President Jiang Zemin's trip to Japan was shadowed by China's continued bitterness over Japanese atrocities in World War II and Japanese resentment over demands for historical apologies.
Anti-Japanese feelings are ever-present in China, with the bitterness linked directly to World War II: The brutality of Japanese soldiers is a significant historical refrain in school curricula in China, notably the 1937 Nanking Massacre and the sexual enslavement of the so-called "comfort women" by Japanese imperial troops all across Asia.
Outside, local residents voiced bitterness over the conversion of the landmark, which sits on the main crossroad at the center of the historical town.
But its neighbors' fears are often visceral, rooted in historical rivalries as well as current threats to jobs and influence, and they are often expressed with a tinge of bitterness.
