Word: ire
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...Wang and Son also direct their ire at targets at home. They assert that China suffers from weaknesses in its political system and that democracy should be the nation's ultimate goal. But when they discuss democracy they are more likely to highlight the failures of India and the Philippines than to mention the top 20 nations on the United Nations Development Programs human-development index, which are all democratic. In that regard they are much like the Chinese Communist Party, which says it is pursuing democracy "with Chinese characteristics," but argues that any moves to lessen its grip...
...When the story of Adams's and Breedlove broke, the most broadcast cause of public ire was the fact that Adams had lied about the relationship—not that he’d cultivated a homosexual liaison with a younger person. Yet the calls for Adams to resign and the media coverage of the issue have tinged the affair with a pallor of homophobia and judgment of Adams’s sexual behavior...
...right connections.” Considering the repeated labeling of the money allocated for the National Endowment for the Arts in the stimulus bill “pork barrel spending,” it’s a real fear that the people of the U.S. may refocus their ire, or at least part of it, from beleaguering the avaricious Wall Street charlatan toward berating that namby-pamby parasite, the artist...
...riled rank-and-file officers in Seattle as well. After he publicly punished a Seattle cop who was rude to a group of jaywalkers in 2002, prompting a vote of no confidence from the police union. The year before, the chief earned the union's ire for releasing the names of officers who faced disciplinary action...
...shrewd campaign move in light of recent warnings by several prominent rabbis that casting a vote for Lieberman would be "strengthening Satan." A burly Soviet immigrant to Israel in the 1970s - his Hebrew still retains a Russian inflection - Lieberman provoked the rabbis' ire not only because he is a secular Jew, but also because his tough, anti-Arab slogans are luring many hawkish Israelis away from religious parties. A trip to the Western Wall was a way for Lieberman to underline his kosher credentials. (See pictures of Israel's war in Gaza...