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They feel like they are being blamed for their success, and they resent it.
Ukrainians may at times resent these impersonal modern mechanisms, but they increasingly (if grudgingly) recognize them as necessary.
Traditional media companies resent their reliance on Google to direct traffic to their sites and its ability to sell advertising based on snippets of their content.
More broadly, Putin’s defiance of US hegemony could attract support from countries and peoples worldwide that resent American-imposed values and norms.
French descendants of Eastern European Jews have not yet fully come to terms with a continent – including Vichy France – that they still associate with the Holocaust, whereas Jews from the Maghreb tend to resent the fact that even in France, they remain surrounded by “Arabs.”
They even resent the Republic’s commemoration of Jews’ suffering during WWII.
Russians resent the mounting economic insecurity brought about by the sanctions Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, initiated after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 (a move that initially bolstered Putin’s flagging approval ratings).
Nor has it brought peace to the oil rich Niger delta whose impoverished people resent exploitation of the resources of their territory for the enrichment of a corrupt elite.
On the contrary, more educated citizens often resent being told by experts what science regards as truth.
Affluent Flemings in Belgium resent having to support unemployed Walloons.
As a result, many resent welfare recipients and fear competition for jobs – a sentiment that is fueling the rise of populist, anti-EU, and anti-immigrant parties across Europe.
Another is that he came to resent the West, owing to the humiliation of the stalled EU accession process and his own authoritarian ambitions, which he finally pursued in earnest after the failed military coup in the summer of 2016.
In the past, a poor African might have looked at his compatriots and resented their wealth; now, both he and his better-off compatriots look at the rich world and resent the huge income gaps they see.
Those who advocate leaving globalization exclusively in the hands of the private sector may resent the idea of vesting tax-raising authority in a global agency.
Hanoi's officials, too, resent that investors fly to their city to get approval for deals, only to do business in the South.
Now consider the German voters who have turned against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her SPD coalition partners, mainly because they resent what they see as uncontrolled immigration and unjustified transfer payments to Greece.
The majority of Iraqis deeply resent Saudi Arabia – and with good reason.
The two global economic superpowers resent each other’s “exorbitant privilege.”
Hamas leaders claim that they were not consulted before the announcement, and they resent Abbas’s unilateral decision, calling it a direct violation of an agreement between Hamas and Abbas’s Fatah party that led to the current ceasefire with Israel.
The narrow majority for “Leave” implies that there are still many in Britain who deeply resent the idea of “Brexit.”
I don't resent the ease with which basic science faculty are promoted; after all, I am sure that I also enjoyed the perks that come with this designation.
Many northerners resent that the presidency was returned to a southerner after only one term with a northerner in office (an informal agreement mandates that the presidency should alternate between north and south every two terms).
One reason why Flemish Belgians resent having to prop up the Walloons with their tax money is that they regard them almost as foreigners.
They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation.
Bailouts of too-big-to-fail banks are unpopular among economists, policymakers, and taxpayers, who resent special deals for financial bigwigs.
To achieve majorities, the socially conservative protectionists had to unite with the remnants of the Thatcher-Reagan laissez faire movement, who resent the interventionist economic management of the post-2008 period and want to intensify the competition, deregulation, and globalization that social conservatives resent.
If Clinton was seen as a despicable figure of female power, Barack Hussein Obama, though hardly a softie himself, represented everything that many people resent: he was highly educated, liberal, had a Muslim middle name, and his father was African.
Russia and China abstained from the vote on that resolution, and now angrily resent its adoption, because it resulted in regime change rather than just humanitarian protection of Libyan civilians.
But the reality is that some EU members are "more equal" than others, and the Union's more powerful members invariably resent external constraints.
These newly rich provincials resent the old Istanbul elite as much as businessmen from Texas or Kansas hate the East Coast elites of New York and Washington.
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