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He seemed to represent a true underground, someone who felt shocked and betrayed by the world that arose out of Gorbachev's glastnost and perestroika .
As the head of the government that carried out these acts, British Prime Minister David Cameron has betrayed his country’s most noble cultural legacy.
Yet, although serially disloyal to French rulers, Talleyrand probably never betrayed France.
Both sides, Leavers and Remainers, feel betrayed.
Word of Park’s cronyism left many South Koreans feeling betrayed by a president who had vowed to lead differently.
Whether motivated by tribal animosities, an ideological rejection of the peace process, or cultural estrangement from Israel’s liberal elites, anyone who feels alienated – ethnically, culturally, or socially – joined Netanyahu to defeat those on the left who had usurped Jewish history and betrayed Eretz Israel.
But, for India, such hopes have been betrayed too often in the recent past for it to continue to turn the other cheek.
Obasanjo, besieged and angry that friends at home and abroad (particularly in the United States and Europe) betrayed him by aiding his political opponents in killing the amendment, is determined to settle scores.
Worse, appalling income inequalities, a squeezed middle class, and evidence of widespread ethical lapses and impunity are fueling a dangerous disenchantment with democracy and a growing loss of trust in a system that has betrayed the American dream of constant progress and improvement.
She was betrayed by her own former ally, Rita Verdonk, and a variety of Dutch xenophobes, who don’t like an outspoken black female immigrant from Somalia any more than they like Muslims.
But these cases go beyond the companies robbed and the shareholders betrayed.
Both China and Russia feel betrayed by the West’s behavior in Libya, where it clearly transcended the United Nations mandate by toppling the Qaddafi regime.
In 1938, while other democracies silently looked on, Great Britain and France betrayed their ally Czechoslovakia.
They have betrayed that pledge with nary a political consequence to themselves.
The outcry from a betrayed West was loud and visceral.
At the same time, Greece needs a major program to tackle youth unemployment: a New Deal for a generation that has been betrayed.
They have never betrayed me, and I haven’t betrayed them either.”
He chose to portray what was a cynical alliance of convenience between Israel and the Christian Phalange as a lesson to humanity and a rebuke of that hypocritical Christian Europe which had betrayed the Jews during the Holocaust.
If Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, now becomes “the handmaiden of Brexit,” in Tony Blair’s memorable phrase, by shying away from effective opposition, these new voters will feel betrayed, the party will split between the Marxists and centrists, and its hopes of ever winning a general election will be dashed.
The conflict was now between Israel, a beacon of democracy fighting the expansion of a Shiite obscurantist empire, and an Iran that chose to protect its revolution by mobilizing the Arab masses in the name of Islamic values and against treacherous rulers who had betrayed the dispossessed Palestinians.
Strident and self-absorbed by narrow partisanship, administration officials have actually betrayed the conservative ideological cause, dismantling the tried-and-tested institutional foundations of America's economic prosperity and global security.
They wanted revenge, not only on the victorious allies, but also on the liberals and Jews who had supposedly betrayed them.
Populists find support among those resentful faces in the crowd, people who feel that elites have betrayed them, by taking away their sense of pride in their class, their culture, or their race.
Although many Germans have come to terms with what happened two years ago, a small minority still feels betrayed.
But in his attempt to prove that Russia can overcome any new strategic defense measures the US might put in place, Putin betrayed his fear that Russia’s strategic nuclear arsenal could be rendered irrelevant.
Ironically, that commitment is now being betrayed by those who would close off France from Europe and the world in the name of “patriotism.”
He betrayed his Kurdish ally.
Pakistan has betrayed its youth, which is its tragedy.”
In the absence of Communist Party control, these security officers betrayed their corporate ethic and engaged in horse-trading, applying force when a trade did not go well.
Ukraine’s Struggle for LawOne year after our Orange Revolution, many Ukrainians see its ideals as betrayed.
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