Sentence examples for local enmity from inspiring English sources
And although Jordan and his Bulls earned more engaging reviews still, Chicago's relatively local enmity with Detroit never captured the public to the same degree.
But these apologists obviously don't understand that without local enmity, without fans having teams to dislike, football in this country wouldn't be anywhere near as dramatic, and thus not as watched, and thus McLeish wouldn't be anywhere near as well paid.
The appointment was successful but Cesare, recognising how his man's severity had provoked local enmity, "found a pretext … had [him] beheaded and his corpse put on display one morning in the piazza … with a wooden block and a bloody knife beside … The ferocity of the spectacle," Machiavelli records, "left people both shocked and gratified".
Yet the group, drawing strength from deep-seated local enmity towards the Islamic State, might still offer the best hope of pushing ISIS out of a key province.
The truck bombings on Tuesday that killed more than 250 members of the religious sect known as Yazidi in northern Iraq appear to reflect local, parochial enmities.
The eastern Congo, that beautiful, lethal region around Goma and Bukavu, continues to bleed under the assaults of local warlords, tribal enmities and vengeful neighbours from Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.
AirBnB's previous anti-tax stance has earned it the enmity of local government worldwide.
Enmity between local Orthodox and Catholic clerics stood in his way, as did Hungary's unsuccessful attack on Serbia in 1354, which upset the work of the papal legation.
Chen Guangcheng, 40, a blind and self-trained "barefoot lawyer" whose legal fight against coercive family-planning policies had earned him the enmity of local officials, is now at New York University School of Law on a fellowship.
It became a small center of provincial commerce, as well as the focus of a great deal of enmity from local Indians when Spanish officials repressed tribal religions, put Pueblo tribes into forced labor and exported Apaches as slaves.
"In the past I may have believed things, but now I'm not sure about what I'm told, so I must observe and judge," said Dr. Gao Yaojie, a retired gynecologist who earned international praise and the enmity of local officials by creating her own H.I.V.-education program in Henan.
