Sentence examples for target of resentment from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, the "West" went from being an object of emulation to a target of resentment.

Immigrants have been continually identified as undeserving leeches, a security menace, an existential threat to British values – and thus a fitting target of resentment.

Because critics often try to be lawgivers, declaring which works deserve respect and presuming to say what they are "really" about, criticism is a perennial target of resentment.

Six groups told the Guardian that a narrative of "benefits scroungers or fakers" was making disabled people increasingly become the target of resentment, which some organisations fear could spill over into hate crimes.

Unlike these courtesans, Oai already had the attention of Ieyasu, which would have undermined the ambitions of some and very likely made her a target of resentment, hostility, and the intrigues that were common in Japanese harems.

But their participation in money-lending - always one of the least sympathetic of professions - made them easy targets of resentment.

It is not surprising America's middle class is increasingly frustrated and are venting their anger -- at politicians, the leaders of big business and Wall Street, as well as global traders, immigrants, and others who are easy targets of resentment.

The target of their resentment made his first public appearance since Friday.

(Lyft, for various reasons, seems to be less of a target of driver resentment, and is also a less powerful competitor).

Now these troops are forced to perform a job for which they are ill trained and which often makes them the target of seething resentment.

"In the past, working women were the target of great resentment," said Stephanie Coontz, a professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., who studies marriage.