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Displeasure in sentence

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At first, we tried to show our displeasure with military rule by refusing to receive alms from them.
George H.W. Bush’s administration (of which I was a part) worked hard to thread the needle: introducing sanctions to convey displeasure with the Chinese government, but limiting the punishment and keeping lines of communication open, given China’s importance.
Traditionally, people voted for the DAP or the Justice Party to show their displeasure with the National Front.
Indeed, he is scheduled to meet with Cuban dissidents, much to the displeasure of the Castro regime.
India is a strong backer of the association of former British colonies (and some new entrants without that shared heritage, notably Mozambique and Rwanda), so no displeasure with the Commonwealth is implied.
And, as he is learning, to his displeasure, that means postponing the day when the books will be balanced.
The Iran nuclear agreement, one of Obama’s hallmark achievements, involved similar efforts to engage Congress, from protracted trips to Capitol Hill by Obama administration officials to a creative approach that allowed legislators to display their displeasure for the deal, without blocking its progress.
As usual, Japan's government reacted meekly, offering superficial complaints about China to assuage domestic displeasure.
Those votes partly reflected displeasure with domestic policies, and partly disappointment with the way governments conduct European affairs.
Perhaps to signal his displeasure, Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan has said he will not attend a hastily organized signing ceremony in Washington, DC, on September 15.
Much of the world, given stark evidence of the economic havoc that China’s displeasure can wreak, and of the ugly depths to which its “wolf warrior diplomacy” can descend, is trying to understand both how we fell into this hole, and whether we can climb out of it with our dignity intact.
Barr, once a Republican establishment lawyer who has been unusually outspoken for an attorney general in defending the president, has insisted on defining the report’s main conclusions, which he has consistently misinterpreted, to Mueller’s displeasure.
All the worry about his shirt, his lateness, the conversation of their relatives, their displeasure and his ridiculous mishap, suddenly vanished from his mind and he felt happy though scared.
'Oh!' said Dolly, and her face involuntarily expressed displeasure.
The feeling of injury had already passed, and she only feared the expression of his displeasure.
With him it was a sign of great displeasure, not with her but with himself.
So the skiff didn't leave shipside that day, much to the displeasure of Mr. Land who couldn't complete his provisions.
Much to Ned Land's displeasure, Captain Nemo had no liking for the neighborhood of Brazil's populous shores, because he shot by with dizzying speed.
That morning, accompanied by M. Valenod, the governor of the poorhouse, he had gone to the cure's house, to inform him of their extreme displeasure.
He said to himself, in a careless tone, as he went down to the drawing-room: 'I must tell this woman that I love her.'Instead of that gaze charged with passion which he expected to meet, he found the stern face of M. de Renal, who, having arrived a couple of hours earlier from Verrieres, did not conceal his displeasure on finding that Julien was wasting the whole morning without attending to the children.
Despite the wisdom of these reflections, M. de Renal's displeasure found an outlet nevertheless in a succession of coarse utterances which succeeded in irritating Julien.
There was some hesitation shown, but finally the hand was withdrawn from him in a manner which betokened displeasure.
The Tempest_As they left the drawing-room about midnight, Julien found time to say to his mistress: 'Do not let us meet tonight, your husband has suspicions; I would swear that that long letter he was reading with such displeasure is an anonymous one.'
Whenever anyone earned Mademoiselle de La Mole's displeasure, she knew how to punish him by a witticism so calculated, so well chosen, apparently so harmless, so aptly launched, that the wound it left deepened the more he thought of it.
My destination is Rome, I suppose ...'The Marquis assumed an air of haughty displeasure which Julien had not seen to so marked a degree since Bray-le-Haut.
"No more nigger than be yourself, Mister Birch," interrupted Caesar tartly, dropping at the same time the covering of the goods in high displeasure.
"I am sorry," said Mr. Wharton, "that any neighbor of mine should incur the displeasure of our rulers."
Katy drew up in evident displeasure, and prompt to vindicate her character for more lofty acquirements, she said,-"'Twas not a common use that I put that needle to - but one of much greater virtue."
"But how is it that you are idle, when there is work to do?""My sword arm is not in the best condition, and Roanoke has but a shambling gait this morning; besides, there is another reason I could mention, if it were not that Miss Wharton would never forgive me.""Speak, I beg, without dread of my displeasure," said Frances, returning the good-humored smile of the trooper, with the archness natural to her own sweet face.
The trooper had supplied the wants of nature to his perfect satisfaction; and, perhaps, with the exception of Washington and his immediate commander, there was no mortal whose displeasure he regarded a tittle.
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