In their view, the United States and others could use it as justification for even more ostracism of Iran, which has a brotherly military relationship with North Korea and has adopted some of its missile and weapons technology.
When their parents marry, Finn uses his best man speech as an opportunity to apologize to Kurt, which begins a brotherly bond between the two.
"Did you, now?" he said to Bruno, patting him on the back in a brotherly embrace, which the boy attempted to duck and slide out from under.
"This government is committed to maintaining strong, brotherly ties which bind Lebanon to all Arab countries, without exception," Mr. Mikati said.
Bush's electoral victory in "brotherly" Florida, which decided the fate of America and the rest of the world, was seen as very dubious.
Before her return, she said a "brotherly country," which she did not identify, warned her that several suicide squads were plotting attacks against her — one from a Taliban group, one from Al Qaeda, one from Pakistani Taliban and one from Karachi.
A year later, Congress and the president decamped to Philadelphia, and a decade after that, they settled into a new federal city next to which the City of Brotherly Love seems like Shangri-La.
"Brotherly Love," which falls early in the show, helps to establish the musical's central relationship between the real-life Mizner brothers, Addison (Mr. Gemignani) and Wilson (Mr. Cerveris).
No insult intended to the City of Brotherly Love, which is a fine place for all sorts of reasons, but you get the idea: Who would voluntarily sign on for another two years of shepherding, or attempting to shepherd, the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives?
Therefore, it doesn't matter whether it is against neo-colonialists or Gaddafi or the BBC, that brotherly bond which ethnocentrism and savagery rarely allow us to enjoy, suddenly waxes strong when there is someone against whom to direct our rage.
