Someone asked me whether I stuck it in in order to deflect ire from discussions of gender and Nazism and race and so on. I won't comment on that.

An existing movement agitating for independence against Dutch rule swiftly turned its ire against the Jakarta government, which maintains tight control over the region, barring foreign journalists or rights monitors.

Taiwan, too, may elect a woman president, Tsai Ing wen, the leader of the opposition Democratic Peoples Party, next year. That outcome would stoke Chinese ire, not because of Tsai s gender, but owing to her politics.

But he and his large entourage have apparently raised the ire of Olympic officials with unruly behavior, repeatedly trying to push their way into competition zones without the proper credentials and responding rudely when checked, the Press Trust of India reported.

And not only does Canadian law prohibit companies from reporting virtually any information about government requests for data Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nominated a lawyer who spent his career advising intelligence agencies to serve as an official privacy commissioner, raising the ire of activists.

Why, two decades after communism ended and Ukraine gained its independence, does the country remain mired in economic torpor and an authoritarian politics that has aroused such ire in Europe? When a country like Ukraine develops slowly and remains poor, it is not because of natural disaster or resource constraints.

The US accepted the lower valuation of the renminbi as long as China returned the dollars that it earned from bilateral merchandise trade by financing America s budget deficit. Now that the Chinese prefer to invest that money in raw materials in Africa and elsewhere, they have aroused the full ire of American policymakers.

Or the central bank lets the markets go where they will, at the cost of drawing the ire of business, labor, the rest of the government, and, in fact, practically everyone except financial types. This is the strategy pursued by countries such as Turkey and South Africa, which have adopted more conventional inflation targeting regimes.

Indeed, a week before Rato s resignation announcement, the Fund asserted that it had the right to censure countries whose intervention policies threaten to undermine global economic stability. The Fund s policy change drew the ire of Chinese officials, who have been intervening on a biblical scale to hold down the value of their currency, the Yuan.

Whatever concerns the opposition has about Iran s allegiances, the country is undoubtedly part of the Syrian equation indeed, its involvement is critical to reaching any accord. But Rouhani s failure to make a decisive statement on Syria even after a series of leaked photographs of systematic torture and massacre raised the ire of the international community has not helped the case for keeping Iran in the fold.