According to Jacques, the widespread antipathy of American fans inspired Vince McMahon to turn them into villains.

What drives the move for independence is not just the love of Kurdistan but also a widespread antipathy toward Iraq.

His conciliatory statements - that he was a sportsman rather than a politician - did little to sway widespread public antipathy.

Yet Bazin's policies are essentially those that have earned Leslie Delatour (who worked under Bazin during the latter's brief tour as Duvalier's Finance Minister) such widespread antipathy.

Gerald Pomper, a political science professor at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, said Mr. Florio had underestimated the widespread antipathy.

These controversial positions in slave-state Texas resulted in widespread public antipathy and the loss of advertisers and lead to the necessary sale of his publication in 1856.

Central Illinois' largely rural character helps to sustain a largely Republican voting pattern and widespread antipathy toward Chicago.

"Among the grass-roots people, there is a widespread antipathy toward Kerry," Mr. Geto said.

Complicating the picture is the widespread antipathy to the formation of political parties, a holdover from the years in which the word "party" meant domination of all by an elite few.

This, along with the widespread antipathy toward Mulroney caused many NDP supporters to vote Liberal to ensure the Conservatives would be defeated.