Sentence examples for resented from inspiring English sources

But by the middle of the 18th century, as print culture expanded and literacy increased, some of those most preoccupied with "glory", "credit" and "posterity" were wealthy, powerful or famous married women who resented that their names would die with them.

If any of them run, they would probably campaign to the left of Clinton, a centrist figure whose hawkish foreign policy is resented by some in the party.

Advice that runs counter to cultural practices is resented and in the absence of authority, myth and superstition take over.

Spin certainly helped in getting Blair into Downing Street but, once in office, its forceful application was resented by newspaper and broadcasting editors.

She was subject to a great deal of muttering: the other members of her shadow cabinet had all been shocked by her becoming leader; a lot of the grandees deeply resented that she was leading the party and they were not.

Those who knew the victims said that the women resented their life of prostitution, in particular Tania.

Differences in pupil funding across the country, sometimes between pupils in schools only a couple of miles apart, though on different sides of a local authority boundary, may become more deeply resented.

The UN stabilisation force is still here – although it is bitterly resented among ordinary Haitians for bringing with it a Nepalese strain of cholera which has killed more than 8,800 people, and infected 736,000 since 2010 – but on the choking streets of Port-au-Prince the NGOs and aid agencies are a shadow of their presence even two years ago.

But they are resented.

These have since been watered down, but are still widely resented, even by some Malays.

Prelates loyal to the secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who in many cases were appointed by him or come from his native region of Piedmont, are at furious odds with papal diplomats who resented the appointment of a secretary of state with no knowledge of their business.