Word: ire
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...Even after Prachanda did just that, however, the end of this dramatic series of events has left the Maoist leader facing the ire of his own ranks, who are getting edgy after being corralled into U.N.-monitored encampments around the country since they began their surrender over 2½ years ago. Nearly 20,000 PLA fighters have been verified by the U.N. and are ready to be inducted into the army if they meet the eligibility criteria. But that process has yet to begin, a stall that some have attributed to the opposition of the army chief and the Nepali...
...Japan's offer to minority communities in need has spawned the ire of those whom it intends to help. It is one thing to be laid off in an economic crisis. It is quite another to be unemployed and to feel unwanted by the country where you've settled. That's how Freitas and other Brazilians feel since the Japanese government started the program to pay $3,000 to each jobless foreigner of Japanese descent (called Nikkei) and $2,000 to each family member to return to their country of origin. The money isn't the problem, the Brazilians...
...negotiations to reduce layoffs or increase severance payouts - or both. And this week's blockading fishermen got a promise of $66 million in government loans to ride out the rough economic seas. What they didn't get was movement on lowering the E.U. fishing quotas that provoked their ire in the first place. Because of that, it's a good bet they'll soon be seen mounting their aquatic barricades again...
...fears of people in subordinated communities, but there’s also fears that come from being white,” Jensen said. He added that sources of these fears include the difficulty of trying to occupy the middle ground between letting offensive racial comments slide and drawing ire from colleagues as a result of being overly sensitive to them—a balancing act that he sometimes finds difficult. “I don’t get invited to parties much nowadays,” he joked. Jensen, who is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting...
...Obama’s presence and degree is not a matter of political partisanship. Rather, “Obama’s hostility to the Catholic Church’s teachings on the sanctity of human life at its earliest stages” spurs the coalition’s ire. The university’s decision, it argues, violates the policy of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which prohibits the honoring of pro-choice politicians...