Word: mistrust
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...heading into a very complex situation. The Israelis are united now in their mistrust of Arafat. And that creates a great difficulty for resuming negotiations. And among ordinary Palestinians, there is a great deal of anger toward the Israelis and the Americans because the suffering under the Israeli closure of Palestinian areas is very intense. So for Arafat to try and stop the violence, he will demand a reward, something he can take to the Palestinian people and say, here is the prize for stopping the violence. The name of the game in the Middle East is if you want...
...other interesting tension in Paradise Park is that for all of Sharon's intelligence and experience, she is actually looking for these tremendous signs from God, which is a tendency that is typically associated with someone who is more naive than Sharon should be.AG: Yes, but she begins to mistrust it as she goes on. She really falls for some of those cliches about religion, that a lightning bolt is going to hit you and you will be reborn. The problem with that is that all of those signs are external. She really wants God to sweep her away...
Tales circulating throughout the College about first-years' experiences with the alcohol policy seem to validate students' mistrust of administrators...
...manufacture physical evidence, to collude with other parents to present erroneous facts with a straight face, even to threaten punishment if I were to collect data that might jeopardize the believability of their prevarication. At an age before I knew to be ever vigilant and to mistrust paternalism in all forms, my parents were using their near total power over my life and surroundings to inculcate a belief in something utterly false and, even more disturbingly, utterly unimportant...
...more than you would expect from a man who used to be a high school principal and wrote his doctoral thesis on Nietzsche. But as the leading Islamic thinker among Europe's second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants, the Geneva-based university lecturer also inspires a good deal of mistrust--from both Arab Muslims for his Western sensibility and Westerners for his controversial Islamic roots. Ramadan, 38, is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder, in 1928, of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic revival movement that spread from Egypt throughout the Arab world, criticizing Western decadence and advocating a return...