Word: mistrustfulness
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...activist who publishes the magazine Crisis and who is close to the White House. "There's huge energy at the grass roots against Kerry." Bush, too, has courted conservative Catholics (he paid his third visit to the Pope two weeks ago), who in recent years have largely buried their mistrust of evangelical protestants and fostered political alliances on such issues as abortion and gay marriage...
...attacks staged by militants on police and military posts in the south of Thailand have no connection whatsoever with "jihad" or any underlying religious conflict. The incidents that occurred are part of an effort by a few groups of individuals who wish to sow the seeds of religious mistrust and intolerance where none had existed. Their resort to the repeated use of violence is intended to undermine the fabric of social and religious harmony that has always existed in Thailand. The Thai government very much regrets the loss of lives, but the scale and swiftness of the attacks on April...
...most controversial portion of his article, Huntington—citing observations of Texas entrepreneur Lionel Sosa—highlights what he says are debilitating traits prevalent among Hispanic immigrants: “mistrust of people outside the family, lack of initiative, self-reliance, and ambition; little use of education; and acceptance of poverty as a virtue necessary for entrance into heaven...
...deal with Milosevic's cronies," said a disgusted Ljubica Zivkovic, 55, a grocery store owner from Belgrade. "I thought I'd never see their faces again." Kostunica's alliance with the SPS will also increase suspicion in the West, on which Serbia depends for aid. Kostunica's mistrust of the Hague tribunal, which he sees as an American political tool, has already caused concern, and his new political friends are only likely to increase Western worries. The European Union has already voiced its discontent. "We in the E.U. have said very clearly [that] we want ... the democratic parties of Serbia...
...suffering a severe bout of self-doubt. Mired in the country's latest corruption scandals, the political maverick astonished the nation during a televised press conference last Friday by calling for a public vote of confidence. "I am trying to seek the people's renewed support over the accumulated mistrust because I want to manage state affairs with moral confidence," Roh said...