He distrusts the take-no-prisoners mindset that soldiers bring to the complicated battleground of government.

CNN: Olive-Drab Bureaucrats

The first message is that she distrusts her employees, and distrusts the Net.

CNN: What Mayer misses on work-life balance

But he knows full well that the British electorate still distrusts the Tories, and still wants New Labour to succeed.

ECONOMIST: America��s spring of vigour

Ethiopia has made it clear it distrusts President Isaias Afwerki personally, and that it would prefer to see a less aggressive Eritrean leader.

BBC: Ethiopia's war strategy

Tesla says it only secretly monitors journalists (because it distrusts them) and that its normal customers are informed and give consent to having their data monitored.

FORBES: The Big Privacy Takeaway From Tesla vs. The New York Times

In an election that promises to be all about turnout, same-sex marriage could be just the thing to fire up a right wing that distrusts Governor Romney.

FORBES: Obama Support Of Gay Marriage An Act Of Political Courage Or Just Catching Up?

The general public distrusts privatisation, thanks notably to the sales of banks and highways, which then had to be rescued at vast public cost after the economic collapse of 1995.

ECONOMIST: Mexico

The other Sarkozy is an economic nationalist who talks grandly about the importance of protecting jobs and factories, distrusts both free-traders and the market, and frets publicly about the downside to globalisation.

ECONOMIST: France

Clearly he distrusts media owners.

ECONOMIST: A spider's web of hidden controls

They include anyone who uses alternative medicine, or who buys organic food, or worries about genetic modification, or opposes nuclear power, or likes post-modernism, or doesn't vaccinate their children properly, or distrusts scientists, or believes the Bible, or dislikes global capitalism or thinks that human progress damages the environment.

ECONOMIST: Science