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Just as Portugal’s forced alliance with Spain had made the country a target for Drake’s 16th-century raids, now her friendly alliance with England rankled Napoleon.
Now, three decades later, the Republicans extract (esoteric) revenge with The Threat for the spot that has rankled them for years.
This remark may have rankled Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, who recently stirred things up by emphasizing his country's separateness from China.
De Souza, rankled, barked, "When you say unpunished violence it reminds me of the old green code."
Berger was particularly rankled by an editorial in the Economist that said that only the future would tell whether the U.S. missile strikes had "created 10,000 new fanatics where there would have been none."