popular resentment

collocation in English

meaningsofpopularandresentment

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popular
adjective
uk
/ˈpɒp.jə.lər/us
/ˈpɑː.pjə.lɚ/
liked, enjoyed, or supported by ...
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resentment
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈzent.mənt/us
/rɪˈzent.mənt/
a feeling of anger because you have been forced to accept something that you do ...
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(Definition ofpopularandresentmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These officially sanctioned precedents served the guilds' own exclusionary goals by precluding possiblepopularresentment.
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This may be somewhat exaggerated and there are occasional suggestions ofpopularresentment.
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As colonial officials instituted an increasingly restrictive program of wildlife management at the turn of the century, they repeatedly encounteredpopularresentmentand resistance.
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Clearly, it required a new style of politics with a new leadership to express and politicize thepopularresentmentof 1866.
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The medical appropriation of bodies aroused muchpopularresentment.
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Popularresentmentof the foreign oil companies was also evident and expressed in several ways.
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The operation failed to crush the resistance, andpopularresentmenttoward the occupation grew stronger than ever.
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It is the anger, fear andpopularresentmentcaused by the extent of violent crime that has led to the re-emergence of what is fundamentally vengeance in penal policy.
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The financial disaster and depression provokedpopularresentmentagainst banking and business enterprise, and a general belief that federal government economic policy was fundamentally flawed.
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His household was also said to behave in a way that causedpopularresentment, taking provisions as they passed through the countryside while offering little compensation.
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Popularresentmentof the privileges enjoyed by the clergy and aristocracy grew amidst an economic crisis following two expensive wars and years of bad harvests, motivating demands for change.
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Popularresentmentof the privileges enjoyed by the clergy and aristocracy grew amidst a financial crisis following two expensive wars and years of bad harvests, motivating demands for change.
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