He treated me badly.

Tom treated me like a brother.

Tom was always good to his kids.

I treated her as my own daughter.

Tom was always mean to Mary.

Tom treated Mary like his own daughter.

I have always been skeptical about the rhetoric of a common foreign policy for the EU.

How can you possibly expect a country such as, say, France to accept being voted down by its EU partners on vital foreign and security policy issues?

President Chávez scorned the opposition's litany.

Since Soviet times, the Kremlin has traditionally been wary about Democratic administrations in the United States.

When Blanchard first proposed his idea, I was intrigued but skeptical.

When we met in Cebu, he kept referring to me as Nyabo lady in Luganda.

This must be taken into account to understand why Stalin treated him critically and not invited him at all our conversations.

Boris Yeltsin was friendly to the West, tolerated open debate, and appointed a few individuals as oligarchs.

In the aftermath of 9 11, there was a good deal of sympathy and understanding around the world for America s military response against the Taliban.

I insulted her every day, her sufferings at my hands were great ... she is appalled by my shameful vice, etc., etc.

The world was prejudiced against him from the start because of his involvement in the Iraq War.

In fact, the shift to Republicans since 2001 was largely confined to Southern white women. In the nation as a whole, notes political scientist Karen Kaufmann, 50 of mothers with children voted for Bush in 2000, and this actually dipped to 49 in 2004.

They still revere their country, of course, and want the world to respect it.

They still revere their country, of course, and want the world to respect it.

In fact, the shift to Republicans since 2001 was largely confined to Southern white women.

Now, this idea in your mind is a subjective idea, meaning that it is in you at a particular time.

The Kyoto Protocol was the first attempt at such a system, but it applied only to rich countries and set only modest objectives.

CAMBRIDGE For the past six years, I have been skeptical about the standard optimistic forecasts of the pace of US economic growth in the year ahead.

4) I ve been involved in news reporting and commentary for over 20 years, and I ve always taken to it in a spirit of professionalism, and with independence and autonomy and the conscience of an intellectual.

Crick was skeptical about the value of computational models of mental function that are not based on details about brain structure and function.

The Vatican initially regarded them with suspicion, perceiving parties participating in elections and parliamentary horse trading as signs of modernism.

It was the same long familiar tone in which his father always addressed him, and to which Serezha had already learnt to adapt himself.

I cannot say I've ever been subjected to any discrimination or preferential treatment for being a woman.

That term bracketed the next eleven largest countries by population, and sought to determine their BRIC like potential.

Machiavelli referred to it as fortuna the events that shape us and determine our wellbeing are often beyond our reason and control.

That is why it is time that even those who have been most skeptical about US policy in Iraq start to do something about it.

But in the corridor there was nobody, and in despair he returned and addressed Oblonsky, who was quietly smoking.

Maybe if protestors'd stop acting like BKKShutDown is some kind of big party at the expense of others, I'd take them more seriously. sad siree sivapetchranat ( iamsiree) January 12, 2014

Yet only a few decades ago, some Western professors forbade their students even to make reference to papers by Japanese colleagues! How could a cultural outlook that the West treated with such raw condescension even in 1985 simultaneously shape Western science so profoundly?

How could a cultural outlook that the West treated with such raw condescension even in 1985 simultaneously shape Western science so profoundly?

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.

He had formerly regarded the new teaching with coldness and even hostility, and had never discussed it with the Countess Lydia Ivanovna (who was carried away by it), but had carefully and silently evaded her challenges.

In Russia, an independent central banker, Viktor Gerashencko, could not be removed for years, though he tolerated both inflation and corruption.

Acceptance of pluralism and tolerance were thus central to his vision and forbade any one to one translation of religion into political life. He was in fact rather skeptical of exclusively Christian parties.

There he became a pupil of P. J. Desault, who was so impressed with his genius that he took him into his house and treated him as his adopted son.

Since then, though not divorced, they lived apart and when the husband did meet his wife he always treated her with an unchanging venomous irony which seemed inexplicable.

People who were skeptical about the war and most of the scholars at the time changed their minds to the war has already started so what we can do is wish for Japan's triumph. All of them rallied to support the politicians.

If the ADB were serious about poverty reduction, it would put a significant share of its investments in social development, particularly on non contributory universal social security schemes that can reduce poverty by 35 to 50 .

Indeed, as recently as August, the IMF was skeptical about adding the renminbi to the SDR basket, saying that significant work was still needed, and suggesting that a decision should be put off until 2016 in order to ensure a smooth transition.