touch a raw nerve in a sentence

Examples

1. A darkly comic film set in a Nazi concentration camp might be expected to touch a raw nerve in Israel.
2. In many countries, particularly the United States, this kind of racial stereotyping often touches a raw nerve in society.
3. And it would be political bombshell in government-held territory, where the fate of Srebrenica touches a raw nerve.
4. And it would be a political bombshell in government-held territory, where the fate of Srebrenica touches a raw nerve.
5. The issue of returning church property confiscated after the 1948 Communist takeover touches a raw nerve among secular Czechs with centuries of Protestant tradition.
6. In Holocaust-shadowed Israel, a darkly comic film set in a Nazi concentration camp might be expected to touch a raw nerve.
7. Edward Keall, the Royal Ontario Museum's director of Near Eastern and Asian civilizations, said the box touches a raw nerve.
8. The police action touches a raw nerve in Greece, which is struggling to demonstrate readiness for Olympic security and is highly sensitive to international criticism.
9. The Sunday Morning Post said in an editorial that the activities were " guaranteed to touch a raw nerve with the Central Government " in Beijing.
10. Doing business with Westinghouse still touches a raw nerve among many Filipinos, who believe Marcos plundered billions of dollars from the national treasury during two decades in power.