Word: disdain
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...political climate. There will be fewer police, fire fighters and teachers. There will be more potholes. Civilians may remember how valuable government can be. We could be on the cusp of an era where government is regarded once more with mere skepticism, rather than the out-and-out disdain of recent years...
...vote Britain into the single currency, the process of joining would be awkward on both sides. "Britain might be a source of considerable friction in the euro zone," says Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, because of its free-market ways and likely disdain for euro-zone norms. In this forest of difficulties, the euro at least has one unquestioned virtue. It gives Blair proof of the oldest adage of politics: be careful what you wish...
Dressing typically in khakis and a button-down shirt, Gross seems to disdain ties...
...ground troops encounter fierce disdain...
...past week--that Shi'ite militants will form an Islamic republic with Iranian support--is unlikely. Iraq has a significant secular middle class. The leading Iraqi ayatullah, Ali al-Sestani, believes in the separation of church and state. The Iraqi and Iranian Shi'ites have a history of mutual disdain and bloodshed. And even Iran's Foreign Minister, Kamal Kharrazi, said last week that Iraq's ethnic and religious diversity makes it an improbable candidate for an Islamic republic...