1.   The international relief agency, Care, called on the United Nations to stop killing Somali civilians or risk alienating the people it aims to help.

2.   The problem with ballet is it alienates people because it is culture.

3.   Abacha has managed to alienate people from every sector of the Nigerian community.

4.   Bush cited tactical military and humanitarian concerns as among the reasons not to alienate the people of Afghanistan.

5.   But even some of his political allies acknowledge he sometimes alienates people with his brusqueness.

6.   Dissonance alienates people.

7.   En route they unwittingly destroy the Hoover Dam and alienate many people, from pursuing government agents to Chelsea Clinton.

8.   George seems to believe that people are so alienated by politics that they need to be seduced into activism by attractive people.

9.   Gore may alienate people by seeming so smart on issues like technology and science that confound average Americans, he said.