Cuts to housing benefit, the closing of buy-to-let tax breaks, and the introduction of welfare reforms such as universal credit and the benefit cap had alienated private landlords, some of whom said they would no longer rent to tenants on benefits because they considered them too high risk.
With the erosion of the postwar compact that traded a slavish devotion to work for stable wages and benefits, many young people felt alienated.
Though they have benefited from their union, many Europeans feel alienated from the Brussels-based entity that mysteriously wrests more power from their nations each year.
Dia:Beacon could easily have created a "day tourism" that benefited only a small number of residents and alienated many.
But Mr. Upshaw alienated many retired N.F.L. players who wanted better benefits and more respect.
To the Editor: Mark Bittman writes that big food companies have alienated us from the beauty, fun and health benefits of home cooking.
Deprived of E.U. membership, Albanians do not benefit from the E.U.'s borderless travel, and many say they feel alienated and closed in.
I met with him to discuss the motivations behind his work from his repressed Christian schooling, to being alienated in the street art community and why we could all benefit from dick cartoons in our public areas.
Some persons will benefit in those respects from intense study of the Great Books -- others will be alienated from the whole enterprise.
But in practice the remuneration and pricing policies of these companies had so alienated most "proper" private-sector business folk that they just about gave the party the benefit of the doubt.
