To the bitter end, the bad-tempered Abuja summit was completely overshadowed by the Zimbabwe crisis.
In contrast, the insurgents appear to be disciplined and determined to fight to the bitter end.
To do this they allow the West to frame this contest as an Arab and Jewish contest fought to the bitter end.
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For example, if Romney had stayed in the race to the bitter end in 2008, he would almost certainly have come in second.
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Worse, the only kind of positions he offers as worthy of defending to the bitter end are in fact trivial, fleeting, and without moral gravity.
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That will be tough on those who remain to the bitter end and the resulting job cuts and school closures will rile the powerful teaching unions.
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If the choice is between dying in combat and rotting away in a US prison cell, many guerrillas might choose to fight to the bitter end.
The European People's Party, the conservative parliamentary grouping that backed Mr Buttiglione to the bitter end, will try to ensure that other commissioners are also shifted.
It says a lot about the way America has changed that he has become the governor of a state that resisted civil rights and defended segregation to the bitter end.
Another contributor was the expansion of international peacekeeping forces, which really do keep the peace not always, but far more often than when adversaries are left to fight to the bitter end.
Mehdi Karroubi, a former speaker of parliament and a senior cleric with a wide following among some ethnic minorities, says he is determined to stay in the race to the bitter end.
As for their SLA comrades who remained loyal to Israel to the bitter end, they fled to the Israeli border by the thousands with their families in the hours that followed Israel's middle-of-the-night retreat.
But the fact remains that there are still young people in schools and there are still teachers who will hang on to the bitter end to provide their charges with the best quality education they can.
The White House even fought to the bitter end for a cap-and-trade bill that the House passed and would have imposed higher costs for electric power, transportation, manufacturing and most goods and services as this tax flowed down the energy chain.
However, in a world of budget cuts and hiring freezes, the secret to more effective law enforcement may lie just as much with their willingness to halt wasteful inquiries as it does with their pursuit of more deserving cases to the bitter end.
The transfer brings to end the bitter wrangle between the two clubs, with Everton boss David Moyes accusing City of "disgusting" behaviour.
Questions are being asked by some diplomats over whether the war crimes indictments against the Libyan leader and his inner circle have left him with no choice but to fight until the bitter end.
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In fact, it was his hard-line views that helped cost Jeb Bush the governorship when the two shared the ticket in 1994. (Bush moderated his views and won four years later.) This year Feeney ran for speaker on a platform of cooperation, promising to end the bitter partisan wrangling that has recently bottled up legislation.
Meetings took place between rival sides at the centre of the dispute in north Belfast aimed at bringing the bitter dispute to an end.
On Friday meetings took place between rival sides at the centre of the dispute in north Belfast aimed at bringing the bitter dispute to an end.
Last weekend lawmakers finally reached a compromise to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, and although nobody seemed particularly pleased with the specifics, the deal put an end to weeks of bitter wrangling.
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South Sudan became independent from Sudan a year ago, in a move that was supposed to herald the end of more than 50 years of bitter conflict.
"The sons of Iraq and the daughters of Iraq will be equal, " Mr Maliki said, vowing that the country's national unity government would work to end often bitter divisions between Iraq's Shias, Sunnis and Kurds.
Shearer led the applause for Newcastle's heartbroken fans as the despair of relegation sunk in - and it was clear their affection for the Tyneside icon has not diminished despite this bitter end to his spell in charge this season.
This is the kind of holiday we need right now, an intrinsically complicated one that comes at the end of a bitter harvest and yet finds something sweet to celebrate.
At the time they were recording the album, all five band mates were going through painful breakups: The McVies were divorcing, Buckingham and Nicks' long-term relationship was coming to a bitter end and Fleetwood's wife was about to leave him for his best friend.
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And it's been a very bitter fight, so it strikes me as being pretty hard to put that together at the end of the day.
The endless, loud, bitter, accusatory political ads, commercials, and speeches will come to an end.
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Bitter past experience suggests that otherwise the United States will, in the end, fail to honor such commitments.
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