Sentence examples for class enmity from inspiring English sources

Haiti inherited the wounds of racial and class enmity and confronted the hostility of slave-holding powers, including the United States.

You don't think it's a sort of gesture or sign of hostility or class enmity or something?" Blair: "No, I think he just likes drinking his tea that way".

It is often very funny, particularly in the description of Prince Charles worrying that when John Prescott sat opposite him, with legs apart and "crotch pointing a little menacingly", it was a gesture of "class enmity".

Class enmities flourished; social and economic inequalities remained palpable.

What has been missed in the rush to bring Burma into the community of nations and block the expanding Chinese hegemony is a simple concept: that Burma is not a single country but a series of ethnic enclaves governed, in theory, by a majority ethnic Burman ruling class whose enmity with their tribal neighbors is centuries old.

In rich western societies, the end of any threat to stability by the workers was welcomed, since it seemed to lay to rest the sterile enmities of class conflict.

How did he command the total loyalty of the working class professionals but gain the enmity of many of those of his own class among the amateurs and administrators?

More importantly, British economic class structures - and bitter enmities - survived the war unscathed, in contrast to those countries which had been traumatised by invasion and occupation (none more so than Germany) into rethinking their economic cultures.

He has never forgotten where he came from, devoting much of his administration's efforts to alleviating the appalling poverty afflicting Venezuela's lower classes, in turn earning the enmity of the country's political and business elites, who doubtless see the current situation as a golden opportunity to turn back the clock to the "good old days".

In this regard, the contrast with Franklin Roosevelt, who heartily reciprocated the enmity of the privileged class from which he had emerged, is striking.

Using their definition as a foundation, we define hate groups as any organized group whose beliefs and actions are rooted in enmity towards an entire class of people based on ethnicity, perceived race, sexual orientation, religion, or other inherent characteristic.