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By the time the West came to believe that Gorbachev and his reforms were genuine, resentment among his Kremlin colleagues was boiling over.
In this context, India must make a strong diplomatic push to help resolve the conflict, even at the risk of fueling resentment among Nepalese, who are wary of foreign interference.
Indeed, though the sources of Saudi resentment toward the United States are many – support for Israel, negotiations with Iran, pressure on human rights – none is more important than the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
At the same time, if America's "shock therapy" approach to reconstruction--quick economic liberalization and privatization--is carried out, higher unemployment and greater resentment are likely to follow.
With food prices rising sharply, the poor are being hit the hardest, fueling greater poverty, inequality, and resentment.
In a polarized society, politicians who stir up the mob by exploiting fear and resentment are probably more likely to be successful than less exciting figures who try to appeal to our more rational faculties.
As a result, they often harbor anger and resentment toward the government, with some even taking up arms in resistance.
In response to this growing resentment, both parties’ presidential candidates have promised to reestablish economic fairness and reform the tax system.
Despite the huge philosophical differences between the two parties over the appropriate size of government, there is one uncontroversial way in which the candidate who is elected in November can address voter resentment.
Great inequality, built up over generations, does not become a source of great popular resentment.
And that means it must be fair and just, rather than leaving one party seething with resentment – especially if that resentment extends to millions of people worldwide.
That allowed me to address the question I find most interesting: Given the abundance of useful ideas, why have so few of the policies that might have ameliorated economic conditions and alleviated public resentment been implemented since the crisis?
American threats, or talk of another war, fuel the fires of resentment and frustration in Iran, strengthening the most radical forces.
Then, in 1934, resentment against growing corruption led Calles to choose an “honest idealist” to become president, a young man who had fought for him early in the revolution, who he thought he could control but who would help the government regain popularity.
And there are signs of austerity and reform fatigue both in Spain and Italy, where demonstrations, strikes, and popular resentment against painful austerity are mounting.
When America does not adhere to the principles that it preaches to others, it breeds resentment.
For decades, most of India’s political parties have practiced forms of “strategic secularism” to secure a so-called Muslim vote bank – an approach that has stoked resentment among the country’s Hindu majority while doing little to improve Muslims’ wellbeing.
With the demise of the Soviet Union, according to this argument, the bi-polar balance of power vanished and America became the world's only superpower, engendering resentment and envy - and hence a difficult time for US-European relations.
If European resentment is inevitable, some US leaders say, then the proper response is to shrug it off.
If, in the current environment, Western powers attempted to point this out to the people of Russia, Hungary, or Turkey, they would likely stoke even greater resentment.
This will never be acceptable either to Palestinians or to the international community, and will inevitably precipitate increased tension and violence within Palestine and stronger resentment and animosity from the Arab world against America, which will be held accountable for the plight of the Palestinians.
And Trump, an ignorant narcissist with no political experience, managed to become President of the US by whipping up popular resentment against educated elites, bankers, foreigners, immigrants, and international institutions.
Yet the resentment toward the so-called elites into which such leaders have tapped can be seen on the left as well.
Similar anti-elite sentiment, fueled partly by working-class resentment of cosmopolitanism and economic inequality, underpinned the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union.
An exclusive partnership will breed more resentment than goodwill, and probably will not survive for long.
All have scored highly with voters filled with anger and resentment at polished urban elites.
The Chinese government should contemplate the merits of greater openness in Tibet and put a stop to intimidation and harassment, which merely breed further frustration and resentment.
Obviously, there must be an intensification of efforts to reduce global poverty, which has become a breeding ground of resentment, envy, and despair – hence, a ready producer of violence and suicide bombers.
As we know from the recent events, they have not yet been entirely successful; the resentment among Tibetans runs too deep.
In the last few weeks, that resentment boiled over, first in the monasteries, and then in the streets, against the Han Chinese migrants, who are both the agents and main beneficiaries of rapid modernization.
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