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despises

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Third person singular of despise

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Popular feminism is an orthodoxy that despises challenge.

She despises Cameron's policies: "The Conservatives have overseen some of the most brutal cuts, to the most vulnerable people, meted out in modern history".

And one issue the parties fight over most fiercely is the future of the Basque country and how to deal with ETA.Yet the PP despises Basque nationalism even more than Mr Zapatero, so it is offering to help Mr López to take power.

The political class loathes him; the press relentlessly reviles him; business despises him; and voters want him to go.

The American electorate is still trapped in Nixonland: a land where Democrats and Republicans exchange endless gibes about who despises whom, where simmering class and regional resentments trump all other political considerations and where the airwaves crackle with accusations about lies and counter-lies.The Republicans now have all the material that they need to do what they do best.

The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which China despises because it shuns reunification between the island and China, suffered a heavy defeat.

Mr Braley, says Ms Ernst, is a tool of Washington, determined to force "Nancy Pelosi's and Barack Obama's liberal agenda" on ordinary Iowans, whose simple, salt-of-the-earth lifestyles he secretly despises.

Congress happily pays for weapons but despises weaselly diplomats and woolly development aid, yet they are vital to ensuring that arms stay sheathed.

Mr Hodges, the Tennessee food-truck operator, despises Democrats and most Republicans, but would vote for Ted Cruz, a Texan Tea Party populist, if he could.

His announcement, on May 1st, sent ripples of excitement through the city he despises.

During Saturday's show Mr Bhutto Zardari was flanked by one prime minister who had been sacked by the Supreme Court and another facing corruption charges.Like his mother before him, he will eventually have to get rid of the oldies and bring in his own people.A larger problem is rapid social change in Pakistan, which has tended to help the right-wing religious killjoys he despises.

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