Word: disdainful
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...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...
...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...
...kind of vanguard art because of its interest in naturalistic representation and secular subjects,” Robinson said. “It was always considered a kind of art apart, just as the Dutch republic was a kind of novel form of government and regarded with disdain by aristocratic and monarchical regimes. So in that sense, Dutch art was a kind of revolutionary, innovative art in the 17th century...
...Bush turn a sniveling France into a legitimate world political power with a good deal of authority. Jacques Chirac’s haughty disdain for the conflict, amplified by Bush’s failure to gain Security Council approval, has only fanned the flames of world-wide peacenik disapproval...