Sentence examples for reinforce resentment from inspiring English sources

Commentators described the spectacle as "good theatre", as it only served to reinforce resentment and suspicion of the ethnic Chinese among the indigenous population.

The xenophobic actions back home counter that effort, reinforce resentments some Muslims harbor against us and make our troops less safe.

But that tactic has reinforced resentment of the Alawites among the rest of the population, and raised greater fears of sectarian bloodletting.

But in this village, which bore the brunt of the fighting, and a dozen other villages around it, the operation has reinforced resentment toward American troops and the Afghan soldiers who accompanied them.

The prisoner amnesty issue has reinforced resentments.

Non-Muslims would not be required to pay -- a distinction that could reinforce sectarian resentments.

This feeling reinforced the resentment Bugandans harboured after Mutesa II had been deported in 1953 for refusing to cooperate with the protectorate government.

English nationalism was reinforced by resentment of Scottish nationalism.

That only annoys the others, reinforcing their resentment of the "stupid, rotten life" they contend with day after day, a routine of cooking, cleaning, fighting with kids and husbands, and watching TV.

Mieszko's actions reinforced old resentment and hostility on the part of Poland's neighbors, and his two dispossessed brothers took advantage of it, arranging for Rus' and German invasions in 1031; Mieszko was defeated and was forced to leave the country.

But they will offer more targets for insurgents to shoot at, and reinforce many Iraqis' resentment of the occupation.