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It appeared she loved him all along but he betrayed her trust and apparently won her trust back, that did not seem credible.
I'm sure the intrepid masses of casual movie-goers teeming with anticipation for the latest 3 Ninjas spectacle felt betrayed on a deep and personal level akin to having a father register you for the navy.
Many on the left, facing only unattractive scenarios, feel increasingly betrayed and dispirited.
Although the Civic Platform, which governed until 2015, grew out of the Solidarity movement of the 1980s, it betrayed its working-class base by pursuing radical neoliberal economic policies that increased economic inequality.
The former communist party, having embraced social democracy in the 1990s, betrayed its roots in the same way.
But, while Suharto’s approach supported economic progress, critics charged that it betrayed the spirit of the 1945 constitution, which calls for Indonesia to play an active role in fostering world peace.
Supporters of the war--often reluctant in any case--had picked up one or the other of these arguments, and if they focused on WMD's, they now feel betrayed.
He has reached out to workers who feel betrayed by the “system” and threatened by globalization and new technologies; and to teachers and health-care professionals who recognize that public education and health-care services need deep reforms to sustain the social solidarity that they underpinned in the past.
To Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, US President Barack Obama betrayed Israel when he sacrificed Egypt’s former president, Hosni Mubarak, and paved the way for the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power.
None of this happened and Romanians feel betrayed.
Russia felt betrayed in its expectations that the end of the Cold War would mean the demilitarization of Central and Eastern Europe.
Sadly, North Korea has betrayed the US at least three times since then: it conducted a second nuclear test in May 2009; launched a satellite in April 2012 in defiance of UN Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874; and carried out a third nuclear test in February 2013.
In other words, reality betrayed the perception that Iran sought to create in hosting the NAM summit.
India’s government felt betrayed by Nasheed’s own burgeoning relationship with China.
As a result, China, which is particularly concerned to keep the US out of the negotiations, prefers to pursue bilateral talks, knowing full well that such an approach will invariably create a zero-sum game in which one side can be portrayed as protecting its national interest, and the other as having betrayed it.
Islam as a religion of peace and human betterment is betrayed by anyone who commits atrocities in its name.
But, when Cameron resigned in July, Johnson’s fellow Brexiteers betrayed him, so he had to settle for becoming Foreign Secretary in Theresa May’s new government.
But, in that same speech, Trump betrayed the superiority he ascribes to Israel: “Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital.”
Yushchenko offered his hand to his foes in good faith so as to bind up our nation’s wounds; in return, the governing pact that he reached with Yanukovych was betrayed at every turn.
It is Sarkozy himself who has betrayed the hopes of his supporters and consolidated the hostility of his opponents.
The Bush Administration felt betrayed by French diplomatic tactics at the United Nations, while French President Jacques Chirac felt confirmed in his mistrust of the sole superpower and his call for a multipolar world.
For the religious right and the mullahs, he is an agent of America, the great Satan, and has thus betrayed the cause of Islam.
After World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Allies promised them a state of their own - a promise that was cynically betrayed when British and French imperial interests took precedence.
Although some of its members entered the cabinet under Abhisit, PAD leaders felt betrayed and abandoned by Abhisit and some of his powerful backers.
They hope to position themselves as the champions of a great Arab and Muslim cause supposedly betrayed by the feeble reaction of Israel’s newfound Arab friends, particularly Saudi Arabia.
Yes, they have betrayed the people.
Horn and the members of Congress are not the only ones who feel betrayed by Volkswagen’s purposeful malfeasance.
And the dealers, suppliers, workers, regulators, and legislators in every country who now have to deal with the aftermath feel betrayed as well.
Four months later, however, the siege has not been lifted, and the Hamas ministers (such as former Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahhar and Interior Minster Said Siyam) who were forced out now feel betrayed and are demanding their jobs back.
The populists’ enemies are members of the “global elite,” who have betrayed national values; and yet their revolt against what US President-elect Donald Trump calls “globalism” also aspires to be a global phenomenon, and actually depends on its own brand of internationalism.
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