Sentences with 'distrusted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word distrusted and other words derived from it.
• « Although most of the rulers he had approached in the past disliked and distrusted him, Columbus managed to win Isabella over to his vision, and she paid to equip him with a small fleet (he sent letters of introduction to the Great Khan, who he presumed still ruled Asia). »
• « Perhaps Jefferson's most lasting legacy is his vision of an "empire of liberty". He distrusted cities and instead envisioned a rural republic of white male landowners, or republican farmers. »
• « But American slaveholders in Texas distrusted the Mexican government and wanted Texas to be a new American slave state. »
• « However, southern white farmers generally did not support an active federal government. They distrusted state banking and supported President Jackson's dismantling of the Second Bank of the United States. »