Word: disdain
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...years later, the authors of Unhappy China point to the protests along the route of the Olympic flame, complaints about pollution from China by Western nations that consume far more resources per capita, and the West's unwillingness to share key technology with China as examples of continuing foreign disdain for the Middle Kingdom. Song Qiang, who contributed to both China Can Say No and Unhappy China, writes in the latest work that China should reduce the importance of Sino-French relations because of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's meeting with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader that...
...times, also issued a caveat. “The last thing you should worry about is income, especially in this economy,” the comedian said. “Pursuing money isn’t sane,” he later warned. Speaking after the event, Black expressed disdain for the number of students entering business fields for the sake of financial gain. Yesterday’s appearance began with a short address, after which Black conducted a long question and answer period, discussing comedy and his career. Pointing to his experience teaching theater, Black remarked several times that...
...Bush Administration's sharpest humiliations and a glaring example of its chronic overreach in post-9/11 terrorism cases. And critics say what happened next in the al-Arian case was just as bad, a classic illustration of how the Bush government's ethical breaches, disdain for due process and perhaps anti-Muslim bias often turned unsavory terrorism cheerleaders into international martyrs. (Read "When Terrorism Charges Just Won't Stick...
...funerals of our soldiers. They typically carry banners with offensive anti-homosexual slogans and claim that the attacks of 9/11 and the casualties in the Iraq War were punishment for America’s acceptance of gay rights. Their highly objectionable tactics have largely been met with mockery, disdain, and vocal opposition. The Westboro Baptist Church has essentially succeeded in offending rational people at every point on the political spectrum. Given that the WBC is little other than a marginal group with no real agenda or goal besides the spread of hate, it is dismaying that their spiteful rhetoric will...
...corruption scandals. When Japan was riding high in the 1980s, commentators liked to say that it had a "first-rate economy and third-rate politics." Like it or not, for much of his career Ozawa was deeply embedded in the very political system that was the subject of such disdain. It is hardly surprising that at the first whiff of scandal, his popularity should decline...