Word: resentfully
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That, at least, is the theory. In reality, the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council is not happy about the deployment because of Iraq's history of bad blood with the Turks: Shi'a and Sunni Muslims resent the Turkish rule of the Ottoman Empire, and Iraq's Kurds are angry about Turkey's violent suppression of Kurdish separatism within Turkey's borders. Turkey, which is concerned that a move toward independence by Iraq's Kurds would inflame the aspirations of its Kurdish minority, previously threatened to block such a move by force if necessary. Indeed, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
...investigations. Almost all of these are closed without a suspect being named, much less a prosecution being sought. Since the results tend to be inconclusive, FBI and Justice Department officials often deride the exercise as a distraction from more vital antiterrorism and counterintelligence work. Some FBI agents say they resent investigating and intimidating other government employees. Former Attorney General Janet Reno summed up the prevailing view when she told Congress in 2000, "Criminal prosecution is not the most effective way to address the leak problem...
...chose him as their hero, those at RCA who don't like him or his music are biased against everyday people. He may be right. It's also possible that his denigrators love music--and the process of making music--far more than Aiken can imagine and that they resent having their passion marginalized by anyone with a telephone and a taste for Bee Gees medleys. "I don't know why people relate to me," says Aiken, "but my guess is that they're tired of beautiful, cookie-cutter pop stars. They don't believe them, and they...
...gender climate” where one in five male cadets don’t believe women belong at the Academy, according to a survey of students. As women comprise a considerable portion of our military—approximately one-fifth—the idea that their male comrades resent their enrollment is appalling...
...most of all, we resent elite universities like Harvard for encouraging the worst in people like Blair Hornstine. She won the college admissions rat-race, after all, because her tragic flaws helped her thrive under its pressures and expectations. Students like her may be rare at Harvard, but less for our integrity than for her excess...