Sentence examples for detested from inspiring English sources

Fanon was a psychiatrist from Martinique who detested French colonialism and worked for the Algerian side until his death in 1961.

Only now was he throwing in his lot with a US government that detested the idealistic but ramshackle coalition of six parties headed by Dr Salvador Allende, the country doctor and upstanding freemason who was set on introducing elements of social democracy in a country long organised for the benefit of the landowners, industrialists and money men.

The agency was "unsavoury" and he hated having to lie about what he did.But he detested Communism even more.

Coleridge spilled words onto pages like a stream in spate, Wordsworth detested writing; his sister Dorothy used to transcribe his poems and letters from his dictation.

She and her sisters and friends had views on such arranged marriages: a husband you detested they called "Hell", someone you could put up with was "Limbo", and someone you actually loved "Paradise".

MANY people detested No Child Left Behind (NCLB), but perhaps no group had more complaints than suburban school districts.

But why would a politician, ever at the mercy of popular support, dare to rehearse the same widely detested ideas at maximum volume every chance he gets?

This was despite the freeze in political relations caused by the election to the Taiwanese presidency in March of Chen Shui-bian, a man detested by China because of his lack of enthusiasm for reunification.

Perhaps this symbol of surrender wasn't noticed or perhaps it was ignored, but somehow the widely detested Gbagbo hardliner, Desiré Tangro was hit by a bullet, as Mr Ouattara's troops moved in to arrest the former president.

But the prince detested them, having slogged his way through "Mein Kampf".

He detested the shallowness and artificial obscurity of European-born intellectual fashions such as post-modernism and structuralism.