Pakistan's close ties with the Kingdom are looked upon with suspicion by Tehran, although it is not in the former's own interest to be involved in a shooting war based on a personalised, sectarian misadventure, while Pakistan looks
askance at Iran's deepening ties with existential threat India, and recent leasing of Chahbahar to the Indians, though it is being assured that the port would not be used against Pakistan.
Trouble is, there's also a bit of 'looking
askance' or 'looking down' on so-called 'exotic' cooking cultures, the not-so-covert implications being that 'ours' isn't as good or as 'civilized' as 'theirs.'
India has looked
askance at the project as parts of it run through Pakistan-administered Kashmir that India considers its own territory, though Wang said the plan had nothing to do with territorial disputes.
Some states look
askance even at this, wanting to preserve the flexibility of customary law, but Lijnzaad says that identifying customary international law matters to the work of courts and tribunals, and it is judges who are frequently called upon not only to decide a case on the basis of customary rules, but--prior to that--to establish that a particular rule in fact exists.
with hairstyles totally
askance, walking with flat shoes, walking in a very natural manner without trying to seduce the public.
and meager and dirty and silly and
askance with its pitiful little
But at least one Arkansas legislator looked
askance at the junket.
Naturally, things don't always go to plan - the original budgets and deadlines become specks in the distance, the owners struggle to cope with the stress, much-needed materials don't turn up, and McCloud occasionally looks
askance at their plans.
Or, at the very least, we isolate ourselves and quake in our boots whenever another world power looks
askance at us.
Viewed
askance by some of his peers, he has been publicly criticized by his former primate, Peter Akinola, as being too close to the West.
As someone wrote recently, women who would look
askance at being asked to take part in the often brutal sexual practices described, can't seem to get enough of the film and book.
THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE Tuesday, Film4, 6.50pm Carry on courting: Alan Bennett looks
askance at the faffing and flummery of life in Windsor Castle as various quacks try to reacquaint George III with reason in the 1780s.
Blume, who briefly figures in Joanna Rakoff's My Salinger Year looking
askance at the placement of her books on the shelves in the offices of a former agent, says she'll spend the summer revising her manuscript.