Phillips believes that letters of complaint should include strong sentiments and aggressive vocabulary (along the lines of "shocked," "appalled," and "dismayed"), but should be polite throughout.
For weeks, Turkey's leaders have faced a public backlash over their aggressive posture toward Syria, a sentiment owed partly to a feeling that Turkey may be on the right side in the fight but that it is isolated, without the backing of its Western allies, including the United States, as China, Russia and Iran have lined up forcefully behind the government of Mr. Assad.
But then Vladimir Putin took power and turned the Russian media into a mouthpiece for aggressive nationalism and anti-Western sentiment.
And Beijing has forestalled any domestic sentiment in favor of aggressive retaliation by talking tough even while taking little action, said Wu Guoguang, a former senior Chinese official who is now a professor at Chinese University here.
Under his administration, some Russians felt that actions by the U.S. to work with former Soviet Union states served as an aggressive push of U.S. power, a sentiment that is still felt today when some hear the name "Clinton".
There is also a lot of domestic nationalistic sentiment in China supporting a more aggressive territorial posture across the board.
A synagogue warden explained later that the map was "biblical, not political .The prevailing political sentiment in Jewry today is of aggressive defensiveness, a curious amalgam of victimhood and intolerance.
For example, in early March with the Dow Industrials trading around 6,550 and bearish sentiment rampant, he urged his clients to become aggressive equity buyers.
Tokyo shares clawed back some of their heavy losses this week, as a survey suggested that business sentiment may improve in June and automakers gained on the Obama administration's aggressive efforts to restructure the troubled U.S. auto industry.
I believe that this could cause a significant shift in sentiment and ultimately force a number of market participants to become far more aggressive in covering short euro exposures.
