Word: distrust
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...Some Sunni groups fear that their less oil-rich areas could lose out when Iraq's potentially huge wealth is distributed. The ability of regions to sign their own contracts was bitterly argued for months by negotiators from Kurdistan, where there is deep distrust of Baghdad's politicians. Under the law, companies can deal with both the central Ministry of Oil, as well as regional entities. But that concession has provoked intense anxiety that Iraq could break apart, if some regions - or perhaps even powerful Shi'ite clans in southern Iraq - calculate that they can finance autonomous states from their...
...right, this directive is only the latest jarring blow in Boston’s long bout with its student population. It reinforces a disheartening precedent of broad paternalism, this time without even a shred of justification. Examples of the City’s historic hostility and distrust toward its sizable collegial constituency—which in 2000 made up 15 percent of its total population—abound. For instance, the city has granted exactly one after-hours license—to a diner that does not serve alcohol past 1 a.m.—and shutters its subway system...
Even after he laid down his arms and joined the political process as an elected representative of the Northern Ireland assembly, Martin McGuinness, the longtime face of the Irish Republican Army, never gave up his basic distrust of the troubled province's Protestant police force. A grandfather with a receding hairline and a twinkling eye, he still presented himself as a kind of outlaw, reminiscing about the days he spent "on the run" - hiding from the police that many of Northern Ireland's Catholics viewed as anything but an impartial keeper of the peace...
...generation settlers, the sons and daughters of older Zionists. They have grown up steeped in holy books and prophecy and see themselves as the first line of defense against the Arabs. They consider themselves divorced from the state and view the army and politicians, once their loudest cheerleaders, with distrust and suspicion. It has become a showdown of "Jews vs. Israelis," as Gorenberg puts it, and these extremists believe themselves to be the righteous Jews...
...Tehran. Al-Sadr is a thug, but he's a nationalist. He wants a strong central government in Baghdad, not a Shi'ite mini-state in Iraq's south. As Ray Takeyh notes in his book, Hidden Iran, Tehran's mullahs fund al-Sadr to cover their bets, but distrust and dislike...