She resented being called a coward.

There were conservative elements in Canada, unsurprisingly, who actually resented this intrusion.

And they resented them not except because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy,

And they resented them not except because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy,

American Democrats say that President Bush's policies have squandered America's attractiveness. Republicans reply that America is bound to be resented because of its size and its association with globalization.

Now, with the same spirit shown to be lacking from the other side, the friendship has suffered. Until the US displays appropriate deference to the sensitivities, pride, and honor of other peoples and cultures, it will continue to be resented around the world.

In other words, the new class divisions run less between the rich and the poor than between educated metropolitan elites and less sophisticated, less flexible, and, in every sense, less connected provincials. It is irrelevant that the provincials political leaders (and their backers) are sometimes wealthier than the resented metropolitan elites.

Central bankers in Europe have always resented the narrow monetary policy mandate given to the ECB under the Maastricht Treaty. Banking supervision was not included among the ECB s objectives, though one article of the treaty gives the system of European central banks as a whole the task of contributing to effective supervision.

The Chinese regard Japan s seizure of Taiwan in 1895 and the ensuing 50 year occupation as one of the most humiliating events in the country s modern history. In particular, China s government has resented any Japanese involvement in Taiwan since 1972, when Japan severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan s government and recognized the communist regime.

In the past, a poor African might have looked at his compatriots and resented their wealth now, both he and his better off compatriots look at the rich world and resent the huge income gaps they see. The gaps are most obvious where people from different countries work together, as in many multinational companies.

To be sure, large swaths of Venezuelan society rightly felt excluded from the country s cozy elite consensus and insular governing arrangements, and resented it immensely but an aspiring middle class comprised roughly half the population. Chávez exploited and widened that division indeed, as the current campaign to elect his successor shows, the country remains more polarized than ever.

Bashir will also no doubt try to stop the oil rich devolved region of South Sudan from declaring independence. The people of South Sudan, most of whom are Christian or animists, are likely to favor secession not least because of the memory of decades of war and the deeply resented imposition of Sharia law by Bashir s government in Khartoum.

The International Monetary Fund, for example, has always resented the FSB, arguing that the Fund itself should be the monitor of systemic risk and thus serve as the de facto global financial regulator. But the IMF s arguments have been weakened by a recently published report by its own evaluation office, highlighting the Fund s failure to identify emerging risks in the run up to the crisis.

Malala s efforts, while applauded by the West and some segments of Pakistani society, were deeply resented by the obscurantist forces that go by the name of the Taliban, which in Pakistan calls itself Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan. Their choice of name is an ironic one, for Taliban, an Arabic word, means those seeking to be educated, whereas the Taliban s principal aim is to keep Muslim societies backward so that they can be persuaded to adopt a seventh century version of Islam.