Sentence examples for historical resentment from inspiring English sources
Iran's assertiveness has reawakened dormant historical resentment.
Many other Iraqis oppose a Turkish presence out of historical resentment over 400 years of rule by the Ottoman Empire.
In East Asia today, historical resentment is inextricable from territorial disputes, like the one between Japan and China over islands in the East China Sea.
Aside from any lingering tabloid-fuelled historical resentment towards our Teutonic rivals, their football was easy to hate – scientifically joyless, remorselessly practical, and, above all, irritatingly, maddeningly effective.
Her folks and mine are miles apart, each behind their barricades of suspicion and historical resentment, but for the two of us, those barricades no longer exist.
The movement in southern Thailand, they say, appears to be a localized struggle over territory and control overlaid with historical resentment over the domination of the Thai state.
Nonetheless, historical resentments linger.
He realizes that an obsession with historical resentments is poisonous and corrosive to the soul.
In these disputes, Chinese nationalism collides with other nationalisms — particularly that of Vietnam, which embodies strong historical resentments.
If diplomacy is, in part, the adoption of a decorous language to defuse historical resentments for political ends, then diplomacy was abandoned long ago.
The rising emotions reflect how the islands, which in most cases are little more than barren rocks in the sea, can become proxies for deeper historical resentments.
