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As it is, educated Roma do not fit the stereotypes, so they can easily blend into the majority population, but the majority’s hostility remains.
But both the problem and its worsening reflect a toxic combination of deep-seated hostility and persistent neglect.
If Omar al-Bashir retains Sudan’s presidency, as expected, he will be emboldened to step up his hostility to the country’s restless regions.
Just as Bush sought to revamp the Republican Party’s “brand’ of cold-hearted elitism and hostility to women, so Europe’s far-right parties today must appeal to citizens by not seeming dangerously extreme and marginal.
Debates over possible constitutional amendments intended to pacify angry Sunnis and to de-fang the insurgency are likely to incite factional hostility as well.
When I began in recent years to insist that the traditional silence and anonymity assigned to rape victims does not protect them, but only perpetuates a Victorian framework in which rapists attack with impunity and victims are asked to carry the “shame,” my argument was met with hostility.
Preventive measures should therefore focus on these policy failures rather than degenerating into hostility towards hedge funds and other private-equity devices.
Hostility to immigration and economic protectionism, already visible, can be projected to increase.
Ignoring demands for change would ultimately deepen popular hostility toward the EU.
Nor will China get very far with the spurious argument that the US is somehow stirring up regional hostility against it, as if such mischief would be in the long-term interest of an America that already has enough on its plate.
"It means to look at things scientifically and behave scientifically--which has nothing to do with hostility to religion.
But hostility based on ethnic origin is not just uncivilized; it is dangerous.
Only this model has any chance of persuading societies that still view democracy with suspicion and hostility.
One source, according to Bergson, is tribal and leads to a closed society whose members feel affinity for each other but fear or hostility towards others.
That has not changed since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, despite rising hostility toward US Muslims among native-born Americans, based the assumption that they could not assimilate (a charge often directed in the past at Jews in various countries).
The ordoliberal emphasis on personal responsibility fostered an unreasoning hostility to the idea that actions that are individually responsible do not automatically produce desirable aggregate outcomes.
Ultimately, hostility to the use of fiscal policy, as with many things German, can be traced to the 1920s, when budget deficits led to hyperinflation.
The result was to render the South a solid Republican bloc and leave its leaders antagonistic to all exercise of federal power except for the enforcement of contracts and competition – a hostility that notably included countercyclical macroeconomic policy.
There are still Euro-enthusiasts, but among the peoples of Europe indifference and, in some places, mild hostility, prevails.
This program, proposed originally by the then director of the US National Institute of Mental Health, Frederick Goodwin, originally ran into a hostility over its potentially racist overtones – ie, repeated coded references to “high-impact inner city” youth.
The US can and should make clear to Iran that it is eager to put aside 30 years of mutual mistrust and hostility and establish a new tone and context for the relationship.
And, most notably, at last month’s G7 summit in Quebec, he showed unprecedented hostility toward America’s closest allies, launching personal attacks against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and backing out of the final communiqué in response to a perceived slight.
The cultural interpretation of 9/11 as a civilizational clash explains why a number of former leftists have joined conservatives in their hostility to Islam.
All three – and their counterparts in Hungary, Poland, and elsewhere – view open hostility toward the mainstream media as a means of securing and consolidating power.
In some ways, Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia have shared some of the hostility suffered by Jews in the West.
This would not pander to the sort of racism that was a shameful feature of some of the “Leave” campaigning in Britain – and which has left a harmful residue of hostility to foreigners of every hue.
The two countries’ recent rapprochement marks a considerable change from the hostility that bedeviled their relations following their 1962 war over a disputed border in the Himalayas.
Events in Syria are forcing Turkish authorities to accept the harsh reality of the Assad regime’s resilience – and now its hostility towards Turkey.
Israel must also defend itself against much Arab hostility.
Whether billionaires or not, they share a prickly hostility to so-called elites, from whom they feel socially excluded.
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