Sentence examples for general revulsion from inspiring English sources

The project sank amid official rejections and general revulsion.

After a bit, these apparent money-spinners turn sour and this instigates a general revulsion from risk.

It was part of a more general revulsion for mainstream American, American straight, culture — the culture of his ostensible betters.

The Convention was inspired by the general revulsion at the abuse of state power in Europe in the inter-war and war periods.

"Throughout history, there has been a general revulsion against the use of poisons against human beings in warfare, going back to the Greeks," she said.

Although Beardsley was not homosexual, he was dismissed from The Yellow Book as part of the general revulsion against Aestheticism that followed the scandal surrounding Wilde in 1895.

Instead, it triggered a general suburban revulsion, and a Democratic wave.

He came into office  on a general public revulsion against the Bush policy of foreign adventures and that is exactly the policy he has followed.

Like Burma, where I've also spent time recently, Colombia seems like an exception to the general international revulsion against the U.S. — not because we're loved, but because the problems of the Colombians are so chronic and all-consuming that an American hand can't be imagined behind every murder.

In an era in which DNA evidence has shown one death row inmate after another to be innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted, the polls demonstrate steadily dwindling public enthusiasm for capital punishment in general and a widespread revulsion against the idea of executing mentally retarded people in particular.

Many morbidly obese people, and some of their doctors, say that many doctors and nurses view them with the same disdain, even revulsion, as the general public.