Only the graffiti was of the present, but even that had its roots in ancient hatreds.

They insist that bad behavior and ancient hatreds are revived under cover of the world's most popular sport.

Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace.

Indeed, ancient hatreds in the Balkans have produced cycles of killing and revenge.

The conflicts stem from ancient hatreds, people say.

In both cases, genocide was widely misunderstood to be the inevitable product of "ancient hatreds."

Eventually, the choreography is transformed into an an archetypal tale about ancient hatreds.

Kaplan's book contended that the conflicts in the Balkans were based on ancient hatreds beyond any outside control.

But it was not "ancient hatreds" that produced ethnic cleansing, rape and concentration camps.

The accomplishments provide grounds for hope that the next century, the 21st, will mark not simply the escape from our ancient hatreds, but also their transformation.

Ancient hatreds grew into the flames that were rocket ships assailing the air by hundreds daily.

"They remember old feuds, ancient hatreds, battles, and get impulses to revive them.

One of the biggest threats to your future is a world which is dominated not by modern problems but by ancient hatreds.

Much is said about the ancient hatreds of the Balkans as if enmity among peoples is genetic.

It is impossible to reconcile this intimate intermingling with determinist theories of ancient hatreds.

That is the Ancient Hatreds argument, always produced by those who want to write Bosnia and its people off as hopeless.

The bloody history of this continent is mute witness to the ambitions and ancient hatreds of the countries here.

"Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century" explores the ancient hatreds that have risen up in new forms.

Not ancient hatreds, but greed.

The Nagorno-Karabakh settlement may not quickly translate into peace at the village level where bitterness born of recent violence and ancient hatreds runs deep.

Co-existence seems a remote, unattainable goal; the ancient hatreds inspiring these two ethnic factions cannot be overcome.

To the outside world, the tribal massacres there were an inexplicable horror, an atavistic replaying of ancient hatreds.

"President Clinton was of the mind that because of ancient hatreds it was not possible to do much about the situation in Bosnia.

Thus her deeply wrinkled face was a mask of ancient hatreds, imprinted by vices be- yond reckoning.

Western politicians and commentators who wanted to close their eyes to the horror in the former Yugoslavia have often said that it was caused by "ancient hatreds."