Word: mistrustful
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...forgets all that he saw in Yemen and vigorously defends his friend. The audience keeps wondering where the moral ambiguities are going to set in and cause suspense, but the film has such a clear idea of where it's going that there is no room for Hodges to mistrust his friend...
...employees, in direct contradiction of official Service policy, began to refer to our current President, Eagle, as "Elvis." Apparently, these employees particularly enjoyed saying the phrase "Elvis has left the building" into their wrist microphones. This practice, in addition to creating confusion among protective details, created a climate of mistrust between Eagle and the Service, a mistrust unfortunately exacerbated by the leaking of the lamp-throwing story...
...questions of priority and direction, questions of definition and allocation, and some very important questions about the role of a university in business and society. But the deepest question is also the most simple: a worry that motives and outcomes are not clearly defined, in other words, a mistrust of what is new. This mistrust is not entirely unfounded, but it is extremely misleading...
Both the police and the community should be enjoying the dividend of more peaceful times in our cities. However, racial tension and community mistrust of the police abounds. The true tragedy of the New York City and Los Angeles events is that as crime rates fell, confidence in the police in the minority community fell with them. The police had an unprecedented opportunity to be at the front lines of healing the racial divide. Instead the police remain the flash point for racial tension...
...wear thin at any time raises the dangerous possibility that China has become more willing to use military force to achieve its political ends, and thereby represents a real escalation of the tensions across the Taiwan strait. Unfortunately, China's threats seem likely to spawn a vicious cycle of mistrust, making it only more likely that the Senate will vote to sell additional defense equipment to Taiwan, further angering the Chinese government...