Sentence examples for long-standing resentment from inspiring English sources

"Observing the family through this troubled century shows not only how exceptional they are as a family, but how typical: Indira Gandhi's long-standing resentment of the aunt who treated her mother shabbily; Jawaharlal's hostility towards his daughter's husband... these are not the stuff of greatness but of the commonplace, and therefore one of the appealing aspects of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty".

This wealth imbalance has fuelled long-standing resentment among the Malay majority.

You have a long-standing resentment about your godfather not getting you a Baby G that time and your cousins being more attractive than you.

Meanwhile, Iadarola suggested that those states' respective stances on same-sex marriage might not be "contentious enough judicially" to justify a Supreme Court intervention, and that a Roe vs. Wade-style ruling "could lead to long-standing resentment".

Relations between Qatar and the UAE have long been strained as a result of deep-seated and long-standing resentment by Emirati leaders of Qatar's support for the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.

C14 BUSINESS DAY C1-13 BAgainst Against Big Oil Soaring profits for oil giants like Exxon Mobil and Chevron are fueling long-standing resentments against Big Oil could lead Congress to impose some additional burdens on the industry, although the idea that the Bush administration was considering imposing a windfall profits tax was knocked down by officials.

After the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707, there was long-standing English resentment at the growing influence of Scots in English political and cultural life, while Scotland kept its own legal and educational systems.

Konstanty Gebert, a Polish journalist and essayist, believes the continuing national divisions over Smolensk will never be resolved by a public inquiry, however transparently it is conducted, because they reflect a well of long-standing anger and resentment in modern Poland.

Like too many other American cities, both are simply re-enacting long-standing fears and resentments between white and black, police and civilians, and those who have and those who have not.

(The west of the country has been given 100 seats, the east 60 and the south 40. The allocation has been done on the basis of population, but has fuelled Benghazi's long-standing feelings of exclusion and resentment).

After September 11 , 2001 the United States turned to the Security Council for support for the war in Afghanistan, but Washington's selective approach to multilateralism created resentment abroad, even among long-standing allies.