I don't know, you're kind of alienating a large client there.

Republicans Alienating Women Voters Ahead of Midterms With Kavanaugh Debacle, Analysts Warn

We can't risk alienating them by testing seatbelts relative to car seats.

Those top down schemes are alienating to just about everybody, even if you mean well when you build them.

Avoid alienating scientists by suggesting that codes are aimed against them, or by implying that scientists need to be convinced to conduct responsible research.

Counter terrorism measures must be carried out in accordance with domestic and international law, to respect human rights, and to avoid alienating and marginalizing any communities.

By focusing exclusively on what is traditional for their religion rather than asking the crucial question What change is necessary for religion to thrive? they risk alienating 50 per cent of their flock.

Such approaches have even led to the exacerbation of tension by widening the divide, marginalizing and alienating significant portions of the global population, and providing fertile grounds for the spread of hatred, bigotry and violence.

As a result, judges are often reluctant to dismiss a police confession deemed to have been extracted under torture, and release a suspect, out of fear of alienating the little cooperation they receive from the police.

We believe that one sided and unbalanced resolutions aimed at isolating and alienating Israel, such as the resolution on the risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, do not contribute to the establishment of a nuclear weapon free zone.

Finally, after about 10 years of alienating friends and strangers alike, I finally got it, a new personal truth all my own, that if I was going to ever communicate well with other people the ideas that I was gaining, I'd better find a different way of going about it.

Merkel also demanded a stifling and undemocratic EU fiscal straightjacket, which the Commission duly enforces. So when voters throw out a government, EU fiscal enforcer Olli Rehn immediately insists that the new administration stick to its predecessor s failed policies, alienating voters from the EU and pushing them toward the extremes.

But make no mistake how al Sadr is handled is the big test of Bush s new strategy. Should the US choose to face al Sadr and his forces head on, they risk alienating Iraq s largest sectarian community, the Shi a, adding fuel to the anti occupation resistance and thus probably dooming Bush to failure.

Admittedly, violent Islamic fundamentalism has deeper roots in the fading promise of Arab nationalism. But America s misbegotten democratic message has ended up alienating both its conservative regional allies, as it gave a new lease on life to political Islam, which can use the ballot box as a route to power, and the Islamists, whose electoral gains are then rejected by the US.

Some of the moderate orthodox parties, which have been undergoing their own internal splits, have also signaled their willingness to work with a center left bloc that might enable Israel to make real progress. Even Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, is now criticizing Netanyahu for alienating the US and has suggested that he would not rule out joining a centrist government.