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How to use the word distrust in a Sentence?

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It’s not that we know TikTok has done something, it’s that distrust of China and awareness of Chinese espionage has increased, the context for TikTok is much worse as trust in China vanishes.

James Lewis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Religious liberty is under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power, it also probably grows out of something dark and deep in the human DNA -- a tendency to distrust and dislike people who are not like ourselves.

Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Having enough introspection and humility to step back and say, ‘I'm a journalist, and my audience doesn't trust me,’ would actually go a long way toward recovery. So often the response from the press is to look for reasons the audience distrusts them as some version of the audience's fault – as if it couldn't possibly be earned distrust, but the truth is, with more sources than ever, the establishment press needs to work harder than ever to maintain and grow their audience, and give the readers and viewers a reason to turn the trust factor around.

Steve Krakauer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Lock manufacturers are doing brisk business these days as the sale of its products is highest especially near stock market exchange because while the stock market is falling everyday and distrust growing towards it amongst traders, more and more brokerage house & MF SIP AMC offices are getting locked and unemployment soaring with layoffs

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

The company's many privacy screw-ups have bred a general atmosphere of distrust, people just don't believe that Facebook actually respects their privacy, and many people don't even believe that Facebook [ and ] WhatsApp truly can't read their WhatsApp messages.

Riana Pfefferkorn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I feel like all the situation has us on the edge of civil war, basically because hate is rising in Russia, propaganda feeds this hate, and we have more and more hate and distrust in Russia.

Kirill Martynov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most people that end up in prison have experienced a lot of distrust in their life, this platform offers them a safe space.

Terrell Hall

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People feel very lost, they don't know what is true and what is not. It is a strategy of confusion that greatly increases people's distrust of institutions and the press about what is happening.

Esther Solano

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The culture of our communities has been reluctant to support or work with the police by virtue of the treatment and the behavior that has occurred within our community, there's a distrust. It has developed into a code of conduct within our communities.

Tyrone Parker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You’re going to see it in and around large shopping malls and centers, going to continue to work collaboratively to address these organized efforts and call them out, they need to be held to account. This is unconscionable behavior.Its impact is well beyond the victim: the business. We’re all victimized because there’s a level of distrust, lack of confidence in public safety that is inherent in what’s happening. We need to be more aggressive.

Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But the Democrats passed legislation earlier in the year that is just a complete insult to law enforcement officers – a police reform bill that’s created even more of distrust between Democrat leaders in the state and the rank and file officers too, it’s not just the crime we’re seeing in Chicago, it’s the vilification of law enforcement by Democrat leaders in the state of Illinois, including the governor, the state’s attorney of Cook County and also the Democrat leaders in the legislature.

Joe Lukaszek

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are issues within small minorities of the ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic communities where some people have strange ideas based on anti-vaccination misinformation, there are also problems in Bedouin societies, where distrust in the Israeli authorities is typically quite high.

Asher Salmon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you have a police force operating 200 under, the distrust some of the people have with the police department, some good, some bad, and the overall level of trauma that exists within our community, it's rough out here.

Jerry McAfee

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Individuals should not be outsourcing their critical thinking toanyone — whether another individual, a company … or a government official, how has the West come to distrust the individual in such a fundamental way ? An appeal to authority is, as basic logic tells us, a fallacy. It is not the road to salvation, no matter how well intentioned.

Amy Peikoff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I want to say I ’m optimistic but... pick any city : The mutual distrust is at a level I do n’t think I’ve seen since I’ve been doing this.

Jeffrey Cramer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Glazers say they want to rebuild the trust but they never had the trust of the supporters. I think (the protests are) a warning to the owners of the football club that ultimately they’re not going to accept what they’ve done in the last couple of weeks, this is a consequence of the Manchester United owners’ actions two weeks ago. There is a general distrust and dislike of the owners, but they weren’t protesting two or three weeks ago.

Malcolm Glazer

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Miscommunication has been constant since the pandemic started, and that has created distrust in the population, so unfortunately -- and this is a reflection that I have made with some colleagues in public health -- Read MorePublic health officials are losing the battle of communication.

Nelson Atehortua

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Election Judges are responsible for conducting the election and ensuring a safe haven for all voters to vote comfortably, a gun can quickly escalate partisan tensions. This bill if passed will create fear, distrust, and more tension in the polling place whether it's the election judge carrying a weapon or any voter walking in the polling place. Firearms do not support the concept of a safe haven for voting for all voters.

Dana DeBeauvoir

Found on CNN
3 years ago

But actually that didn’t happen in many, many places, there’s actually more fear, more distrust, and attacks grew rather than decreased.

Rohini Haar

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

And I hope this doesn't cause us to be at a point where you distrust The City of Waukegan or the police or each other.

Sam Cunningham

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Given Putin's background -- a trained career KGB officer -- Vladimir Putin has a very astute and sophisticated understanding of the tools that Vladimir Putin can use to interfere with our election process and to sow discord and distrust, which Vladimir Putin is doing fairly well.

The Washington Post

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The new bulletin from the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis underscores two concerning facts : First, as the Intelligence Community confirmed last month, Russia is once again seeking to interfere in our elections and sow distrust in our democratic process. And second, among the range of measures it is pursuing, Russia is echoing destructive and false narratives around vote by mail that President Donald Trump and Donald Trump enablers, including Attorney General Attorney General Bill Barr, have been aggressively promoting, this bulletin further demonstrates why the ODNI's cancelation of in-person briefings on election security for Congress is so dangerous — Congress must be able to directly question and engage with the intelligence community professionals with the responsibility for protecting President Trump and his enablers elections from foreign interference.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Neither Burr nor Warner aim is to sow chaos, discord, and distrust.

Richard Burr

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Terrorists and extremists use this kind of ideology to create discord, distrust and fear among our communities and we strive to counter this. I would encourage people to report hate crime to us and it will be taken seriously.

Kenny Bell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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