In 2000, for instance, William Rehnquist agreed to uphold Miranda despite years of animosity towards the ruling dating back to his tenure at the Department of Justice in the late 1960s.

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The middle class has been struggling now for about a decade -- 10 years in which folks felt the sting of stagnant incomes and sluggish job growth and declining economic security, as well as at least eight years in which there was a profound animosity towards the notion of unions.

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This was unpopular anyway, both because of animosity towards America and because a port in Chile, Bolivia's old enemy, would probably be used to export the gas.

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As much as we hate waiting, we'd say that's a stellar direction for the company to take -- nothing builds animosity toward a product more than letting it waste away in a purgatory of unattainability (assuming your name isn't Eldar Murtazin) for six-plus months.

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It has caused a lot of animosity throughout the British Isles and giving local regions more say in how their money is spent is a good idea.

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Sadler: No, there's no evidence of anti-Western animosity, certainly not by those who were taking part in the demonstrations.

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People waited several days before they could vote in the shaky south-eastern town of Kufra, which has been rent by ethnic and tribal animosity.

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He says because a large number of British jobs have been outsourced to India in the past few years, this "animosity in Britain is natural".

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Diplomatic sources said, however, that they did not know of any animosity between Mr Nasheed and the victim, reports the BBC's Charles Haviland in Male.

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