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Much of the world looks at the US and other rich countries with resentment, feeling that they don't keep their commitments to help less fortunate countries.
In today’s world, workers must learn to embrace adaptability and flexibility, rather than succumb to resentment and misery.
Nobody has an interest in seeing communists and nationalists riding a wave of Romanian resentment to the tune of "We told you so".
With regard to the rest of the world, many find it easy to blame the US, often owing to resentment at its perceived arrogance.
On the contrary, it will find an easy way to turn its resentment of American pressure into an issue of regional solidarity – exactly as the Germans did in the 1970’s.
Her defeat would be theirs, too, but their resentment over losing the nomination to her is so far proving stronger than their political survival instincts.
On other occasions, however, the three countries give the impression of being mainly interested in presenting themselves as an exclusive club, triggering resentment among their EU partners.
Modern China has benefited enormously from this arrangement; nonetheless, there is keen resentment that the Chinese civilization-state’s vast achievements over several thousand years offer China no special status.
This politically devastating sentiment fuels resentment against markets and financiers.
Resentment feeds off a sense of humiliation, a loss of pride.
That the market is an organizational ideal is an important message for citizens in the postcommunist countries, where public resentment against what is perceived as the market economy often manifests itself in a nostalgia for socialism and its control mechanisms.
But, instead of capitalizing on domestic resentment over China’s criticisms, Nakasone decided not to visit Yasukuni again.
A Japanese prime minister can be strong without exploiting domestic resentment against the country’s neighbors, and conservative, patriotic, and pro-American while forging a healthy working relationship with China.
The Brexit propagandists brilliantly channeled palpable economic resentment, especially against immigration, into hostility toward the EU.
But the resentment was against the home-grown damage inflicted on the British economy by its neglectful rulers.
The inevitable American resentment will trigger a trans-Atlantic fight over burden-sharing that will undercut public support in the US for what is genuinely important: an ongoing American role in Europe.
It is not hard to imagine a Chinese-style red-shirt rebellion, with populist leaders tapping resentment and hot-headed youth torching symbols of power and privilege in Beijing.
While growth was so concentrated that popular resentment simmered, communism was kept at bay.
They report anxieties about the economy – as most Republicans do – but what sets them apart is disbelief in Obama’s legitimacy, anger about immigration, and resentment over America’s supposed national decline.
Immigration is regarded as a deep threat by many people, so that demagogues are increasingly able to marshal resentment and grassroots support.
By displacing traditional centers of power, development can nurture collective resentment.
But when the British went home, discrimination resurfaced – sometimes with added zeal, given resentment of minorities’ collaboration with colonial rule.
As I take my morning strolls through Bangalore, though, I sense growing resentment of the inadequacies, and frustration at insufficient improvements in citizens’ quality of life.
The pay gap between workers and CEO's is far wider in the US than in Europe, and yet resentment of the "boss" appears to be far higher in Europe.
Attempts by the US to exert extra-territorial jurisdiction including the attempt to ban British businessmen from visiting Cuba, incite European resentment.
Likewise, the Philippines – locked in a stand-off with China over the disputed Scarborough shoal – has set aside its resentment over Japan’s wartime occupation and accepted increased aid and naval assistance, including ten patrol vessels, worth $11 million each, to help with maritime surveillance.
They ruminated relentlessly over past humiliations, a habit that fueled resentment and, eventually, revenge fantasies, leading them to use mass murder to achieve infamy and to hurt those perceived to have hurt them – even if it meant a “welcome death” for themselves.
Israel is, of course, the single issue on which the Islamic sense of resentment focuses.
He won the election by appealing to populist resentment in three Rust Belt states – Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – that had previously voted Democratic.
In nationalism’s forward march in post-crash Europe, its standard-bearers often use immigration to exploit pre-crash resentment against globalization, notably the erosion of cultures and identities, declining sense of community, wage stagnation, rising inequality, uncontrolled banks, and high unemployment.
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