Reid was approaching the age of 80 at the time and there was some local feeling that he should make way for younger blood.

There's a certain amount of local feeling about it, I understand.

Labour joined in with executive powers that ignored local feeling.

It was on the rock of local feeling that the King's plan came to grief.

If local feelings run high, judges can move trials to other counties or states.

But the Americans did not anticipate the long negotiations over compensation for land or the strong local feelings about the graves.

I was simply trying to describe briefly some of the reasons for local feeling against this man.

Stir up local feeling against Gill for whatever it is he's doing.

Here was a frank admission that sensitivity to local feelings had to give way before the need to maintain order.

But this was not achieved without stirring up local feeling.