"They yearn for authenticity and are distrustful of gimmicks, " says Phil Lempert, food trend expert and founder of Supermarketguru.com.

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In the 1960s, the then French president, Charles de Gaulle, was determined that his country should remain an independent nuclear power, and was distrustful of America's readiness to defend Europe from the Soviet threat.

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Republicans are more distrustful, and the views of independents have not changed much.

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Toxoplasma can also infect the human brain, making men distrustful of others and less likely to heed moral rules.

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Repatriation has proven difficult almost everywhere: people are traumatised by their experiences, distrustful of neighbours and reluctant to return.

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Gen Y employees might be distrustful of the market and wary of corporations, but they are perfectly comfortable buying their products.

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What happens in a banking crisis is that banks become distrustful of each other and therefore reluctant to do business with each other.

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Walter Mondale appealed to traditional Democrats such as organized labor and African-Americans who were distrustful of Jimmy Carter, an unknown Southerner who did not seem sympathetic to the party's core ideas.

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At a time when consumers are distrustful of big companies and their leaders, marketers are putting employees in ads in an effort to make their brands seem more transparent and trustworthy.

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Many people who suffered through the Great Depression grew severely distrustful of financial institutions, and for the rest of their lives kept money under the proverbial mattress.

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They even jumped into coalitions with the LDP, first the socialists, now the New Conservatives and the Buddhist-backed New Komeito, leaving voters distrustful of what they stand for.

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People were also increasingly distrustful of big corporations, which they saw as lovers of profit and not the land.

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But the fact that the US and Europe are the IMF's biggest shareholders has made emerging giants like China distrustful of the organisation.

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