Sentence examples for were mistrustful from inspiring English sources

The inhabitants of Opik's village, though, were mistrustful of the government's intentions.

Amid tougher regulation, some rich clients were mistrustful of revealing their identities to anybody.

Many Americans of the late eighteenth century were mistrustful of standing armies, and the Federalists and Anti-Federalists were agreed on at least one fundamental point: liberty was more secure on these shores than in England because the American people were armed.... Patrick Henry... proclaimed: "The great object is that every man be armed.... Everyone who is able may have a gun".

After his arrival in England, in 1750, his literary fame got him a job as secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham, who was the leader of the Whigs — the party of aristocratic Parliamentarians, who were mistrustful of the King and of concentrated court power.

Some of them, such as Mikhail Svetšnikov, led Red troops in western Finland throughout February 1918, while other officers were mistrustful of their revolutionary underlings and co-operated with their former colleague General Mannerheim, assisting the Whites in the disarmament of the Russian garrisons in Finland.

The two came to realize they had much in common: both had been protected and sheltered from the real world, both felt they had missed out on a normal childhood, both were mistrustful of outsiders having spent most of their lives feeling exploited by them, and both had problems with the media.

But they were invisible in the dark, and Snelgrave was mistrustful.

He can be mistrustful to the point of paranoia, but he can be recklessly frank.

We expected, given the circumstances between our two countries, that people might be mistrustful, angry, suspicious.

"It gives you credibility with people who might be mistrustful because you are Republican," he told me.

He had acted as his own lawyer because he was mistrustful of anyone else's efforts to defend him.