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  • And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.   (source)
  • Nourishing a grievance against the Arch-Community-Songster was useless; there was no possibility of being revenged on the Chief Bottler or the Assistant Predestinator.   (source)
    grievance = complaint
  • But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination.   (source)
    grievance = cause of complaint or annoyance
  • Little Toomai went off without saying a word, but he told Kala Nag all his grievances while he was examining his feet.   (source)
    grievances = causes of complaint
  • That she was sick of Nana twisting the truths of their life and making her, Mariam, another of her grievances against the world.†   (source)
  • That was one of my third wife's grievances.†   (source)
  • There were seven improv comedy groups, nine swim teams—there had been an inter-staff meet last Wednesday, hundreds of swimmers participating, and a hundred messages were about the contest, who won, some glitch with the results and how a mediator would be on campus to settle any lingering questions or grievances.†   (source)
  • The county is full of old grievances like that.†   (source)
  • The boy looked around the table, his green eyes shining with the grievance.†   (source)
  • I felt as if I were pouring out the whole year's grievances.†   (source)
  • Of course the proper forum to air workers' grievances is through the Union.†   (source)
  • "God, but she could hold on to a grievance," he said, with a half-humorous wince, wiping his hand down the front of his face.†   (source)
  • If Ajihad told you of my past, you should know that I have grievances enough to fight the Empire until it is nothing but scattered ashes.†   (source)
  • It was through ToHMAS, and through the example of Mrs. Baez, Blanca and Carmela, that the women from Lomas found a place to address some long-standing grievances.†   (source)
  • "Two grievances are recorded against Kvothe by Master Hemme," The Chancellor said sternly, not taking his eyes away from me.†   (source)
  • Our divided movement is pulling together, gossip and grievances cast aside.†   (source)
  • When we reached England, Samuel and I presented the Olinka's grievances to the bishop of the English branch of our church, a youngish man wearing spectacles who sat thumbing through a stack of Samuel's yearly reports.†   (source)
  • "And then," Strigan said as we ate, latest in a long list of grievances against the Radchaai, "there's the treaty with the Presger."†   (source)
  • Knowing that the Americans would bring a suspect in, people were using tips to settle grievances or feuds.†   (source)
  • On June 10, 1965, its Medical Grievance Committee found Southam and Mandel guilty of "fraud or deceit and unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine" and recommended that their medical licenses be suspended for one year.†   (source)
  • To those with political doubts, those with just grievances, he gave the same advice: "Join the Party."†   (source)
  • For the next two hours, they tallied their grievances.†   (source)
  • It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past.†   (source)
  • In other mass production industries ruled by the assembly line, labor unions have gained workers higher wages, formal grievance procedures, and a voice in how the work is performed.†   (source)
  • After all, when I thought about it, I had no grievance against Sophos, and Ambiades's hash I could settle on my own.†   (source)
  • People with problems or grievances or arguments came from all over the land to seek advice, and even the two brothers, who by this time were fighting continuously, often called upon them to help decide matters of state.†   (source)
  • While wiping at his clothes, my father spoke kindly to the man and ended by resolving his grievance.†   (source)
  • Give Call a grievance, however silly, and he would save it like money.†   (source)
  • Any little gripe, any grievance, anything you want changed, he says, should be brought up before the group and discussed instead of letting it fester inside of you.†   (source)
  • In a moment Farmer was shaking hands with them, touching arms and shoulders, and in another moment loud voices all around him were competing to air grievances.†   (source)
  • The list of grievances went on and on.†   (source)
  • "I don't have any control over it," I replied, too tired and exhilarated to pay attention to Moody's minor grievances about the perfect child I had produced.†   (source)
  • It was an old grievance, deeply felt, and never more so than now.†   (source)
  • The inmate teachers had reportedly sneaked samples of the mold to a sympathetic outsider for analysis and filed a grievance.†   (source)
  • This meeting is born of grave necessity, and I hope that today we might transcend old feuds and grievances and unite in common purpose to face the peril before us.†   (source)
  • If all the grievances that stand between Elves and Dwarves are to be brought up here, we may as well abandon this Council.†   (source)
  • And Guitar was becoming just like them—except he made no excuses for himself—just agreed, it seemed to Milkman, with every grievance he heard.†   (source)
  • Ignorant, restless desperadoes, without conscience or principles, have led a deluded multitude to follow their standard under pretense of grievances which have no existence but in their imaginations.†   (source)
  • And the men in his Company could tick off a whole list of grievances: "He had an irritating attitude.†   (source)
  • George Washington said he could not have won the Revolutionary War without these tough and belligerent Ulster men, who carried plenty of grievances against England.†   (source)
  • "But nobody cares about their grievances," I said.†   (source)
  • Shortly before the election, a meeting of all students was held to discuss problemsand voice our grievances.†   (source)
  • I'm sure they didn't, but unfortunately a grievance has been filed.†   (source)
  • If so, this price was too great for any grievance.†   (source)
  • All have claims and grievances against the gods or their pet heroes.†   (source)
  • By the time I was forty, the rigidity of my footbinding had moved from my golden lilies to my heart, which held on to injustices and grievances so strongly that I could no longer forgive those I loved and who loved me.†   (source)
  • Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape.†   (source)
  • I told them that Kwang didn't come in every day, but that when he did I would see that he was fully informed of their grievances.†   (source)
  • In spite of my shattered dreams, I came to Birmingham with the hope that the white religious leadership of this community would see the justice of our cause and, with deep moral concern, would serve as the channel through which our just grievances could reach the power structure.†   (source)
  • A vague charge such as impiety invited jurors to project their many and varied grievances against Socrates.†   (source)
  • BEAR WITH EACH OTHER AND FORGIVE ONE ANOTHER IF ANY OF YOU HAS A GRIEVANCE AGAINST SOMEONE.†   (source)
  • Colonel, we got grievances.†   (source)
  • Both real and imagined grievances provoke or invite wars.†   (source)
  • GUIL: Thwarted ambition-a sense of grievance, that's my diagnosis.†   (source)
  • So I quit talking, even to my classmates, about my grievances against the system.†   (source)
  • Sanborn said that these days all manner of people aired their grievances on Boston Common.†   (source)
  • Most of the complaints have come from such civic-minded and disinterested groups as various Fish and Game clubs, while members of the business community — in particular the manufacturers of some well-known brands of ammunition — have lent their weight to the support of these legitimate grievances of the voting public of this Great Dominion, because their grievance is the complaint that the wolves are killing all the deer, and more and more of our fellow citizens are coming back from more and more hunts with less and less deer.†   (source)
  • From the Stromberg Carlson phonograph a contralto voice enveloped the room in a lover's hectic grievance, while Wilhelmine, the housekeeper, stood listening to it, audibly humming as she pawed through a stack of silken female underwear.†   (source)
  • His other grievance was less easily remedied, for it concerned the impact of the Overlords upon his own ambitions.†   (source)
  • Generous and understanding by nature, she developed a new suspiciousness and a tendency to nurse petty grievances.†   (source)
  • Rod listened; it appeared that Agnes Fries had more than one grievance.†   (source)
  • Relating the grievances of each side, he asked for conciliation and understanding in the name of patriotism.†   (source)
  • The same craving also came upon the secretary of a famous author, a judge of domestic relations, a job analyst screening applicants for the United Hotel Association, an industrial designer, an efficiency engineer, the Chairman of Amalgamated Union's Grievance Committee, Titan's Superintendent of Cybernetics, a Secretary of Political Psychology, two Cabinet members, five Parliamentary Leaders, and scores of other Esper clients of Spaceland at work and at play.†   (source)
  • The biggest grievance of the white farmer is that he is not allowed to strike his natives, and that if he does, they may—but seldom do—complain to the police.†   (source)
  • Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.   (source)
    grievances = complaints
  • I told him gently of our grievances,   (source)
  • But in spite of this knowledge and these admissions, in spite of the fact that his friend's support and sympathy were now his only comfort, Bernard continued perversely to nourish, along with his quite genuine affection, a secret grievance against the Savage, to mediate a campaign of small revenges to be wreaked upon him.   (source)
    grievance = complaint
  • I had forgotten in my own recitation his old grievances against Harold and his mother.†   (source)
  • Five and a half to four: grievance stands.†   (source)
  • "Well, the front door happens to be one of my grievances too," said Mandy.†   (source)
  • Hemme, do you still set grievance against Kvothe?†   (source)
  • First grievance, unauthorized use of sympathy.†   (source)
  • The grievance of malfeasance against E'lir Kvothe.†   (source)
  • Do you understand these grievances set against you?†   (source)
  • Do you, Kvothe, understand these grievances set against you?†   (source)
  • "I move to strike both grievances," Arwyl said.†   (source)
  • Do you have some grievance to lay before us, some petition?†   (source)
  • If you have a grievance, go to King's Landing and take it up with my sweet sister.†   (source)
  • The justified grievances of the Hutu majority.†   (source)
  • The valet's tone was replete with grievance.†   (source)
  • Lady Barbrey is a woman who knows how to nurse a grievance.†   (source)
  • He began to feel more and more of a grievance against more and more people.†   (source)
  • I enumerated our grievances about the food, our living conditions, and the work detail.†   (source)
  • We would not have had to shout our grievances.†   (source)
  • You, and Master Samwise, too, I guess have some grievance.†   (source)
  • To protect myself I had to hold on to this grievance as I had with my mother.†   (source)
  • You have many grievances against the gods.†   (source)
  • Someone who can articulate the grievances of the people," he said.†   (source)
  • The authorities asked us to nominate a spokesman to express our grievances, and I was chosen.†   (source)
  • Stannis Baratheon with a grievance was like a mastiff with a bone; he gnawed it down to splinters.†   (source)
  • What were Mary's problems anyway; who "articulated her grievances," as the redheaded man had put it?†   (source)
  • And, for the first time, it was not an adversary's face Laila saw but a face of grievances unspoken, burdens gone unprotested, a destiny submitted to and endured.†   (source)
  • They remembered the eccentricities of various patients, and they shared grievances—Fiona was outraged that she wasn't allowed to keep things on her windowsill, Briony hated the eleven o'clock lights-out—but they did so with self-conscious enjoyment and increasingly with a great deal of giggling, so that heads began to turn in their direction, and fingers were laid theatrically over lips.†   (source)
  • The Missouri Grievance.†   (source)
  • Present your grievance, Master Hemme.†   (source)
  • The second grievance: malfeasance.†   (source)
  • "Student may be fined, lashed, suspended from the Arcanum, or expelled from the University depending on the severity of grievance:" Lorren said calmly.†   (source)
  • On the grievance of theft.†   (source)
  • Grievance failed.†   (source)
  • "Let's deal with the grievances in order of their severity," the Chancellor said after we had related our sides of the story.†   (source)
  • "Is that a motion to strike the previous two grievances and replace them with reckless use of sympathy?" asked the Chancellor, trying to regain a semblance of formality.†   (source)
  • There he thumbed his mustache and stood amused in the company of an eager complainant, a man loud with the measliest grievance, pink-eyed and spitting.†   (source)
  • The friendship of Saruman and the power of Orthanc cannot be lightly thrown aside, whatever grievances, real or fancied, may lie behind.†   (source)
  • Mr. McMurphy, the purpose of this meeting is therapy, group therapy, and I'm not certain these petty grievances—†   (source)
  • I assumed Baeh was honoring the traditional Confucian structure of community, where in each village a prominent elder man heard the townspeople's grievances and arbitrated and ruled.†   (source)
  • "I'm not usually that informal," Chamberlain said with the same light, calm, pleasant manner that he had developed when talking to particularly rebellious students who had come in with a grievance and who hadn't yet learned that the soft answer turneth away wrath.†   (source)
  • Prince Doran's grievance against House Lannister goes back only a generation, but the Dornishmen have warred against Storm's End and Highgarden for a thousand years, and Renly has taken Dome's allegiance for granted.†   (source)
  • Responsibilities have fallen away from them, obligations, old hates and grievances; now for a short while they can play again like children, but this time without the pain.†   (source)
  • Grant me but a year, and with Lord Nestor's help I promise that none of you shall have any cause for grievance.†   (source)
  • Beyond its stirring preamble, most of the document before Congress was taken up with a list of grievances, specific charges against the King—"He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns...He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny..."†   (source)
  • The UFCW has given workers in Greeley the ability to challenge unfair dismissals, file grievances against supervisors, and report safety lapses without fear of reprisal.†   (source)
  • the colonies immediately independent: Whereas his Britannic Majesty, in conjunction with the lords and commons of Great Britain, has, by a late act of Parliament, excluded the inhabitants of these United Colonies from the protection of his crown; and whereas, no answer whatever to the humble petitions of the colonies for redress of grievances and reconciliation with Great Britain has been or is likely to be given; but the whole force of that kingdom, aided by foreign mercenaries, is to be exerted for the destruction of the good people of these colonies; and whereas it appears absolutely irreconcilable to reason and good conscience, for people of these colonies to take the oaths an†   (source)
  • Not in half a thousand years have they forgotten their grievance that the lords of Gondor gave the Mark to Eorl the Young and made alliance with him.†   (source)
  • He paid the smalifolk for the food we ate, brought their grievances to King Aerys, expanded the grazing lands around their villages, even won them the right to fell a certain number of trees each year and take a few of the king's deer during the autumn.†   (source)
  • Swift & Company paid the industry's highest wages, guaranteed longterm job security, worked closely with union officials to address worker grievances, and provided bonuses, pensions, and other benefits.†   (source)
  • "Call, if you want better food you have to start by shooting Bolivar," Augustus said, reminded of his own grievance against the cook.†   (source)
  • How could Snow Flower possibly want to make a public grievance against me when I was the one who had been wronged?†   (source)
  • The good part about my brothers being born was that people stopped saying, "All girls," but I learned new grievances.†   (source)
  • Alliser Thorne complains about the manner of your choosing, and I cannot say he does not have a grievance.†   (source)
  • He had gone down to the saloon to get an ax someone had borrowed and not returned, and while he was getting the ax he heard a young woman crying out words and grievances to someone who was with her in her room.†   (source)
  • This was the first time I would do this—properly follow customs and rules on the outside, let loose my emotions for a few terrible moments, and then quietly hang on to my grievance like an octopus to a rock—and it worked for everyone.†   (source)
  • I got to my feet, "I'm sorry," I said, "I have a job and I'm not interested in anyone's grievances but my own ...."†   (source)
  • A strike based on a political grievance rather than on clear-cut issues like higher wages or shorter hours is a more precarious form of protest and demands particularly efficient organization.†   (source)
  • If other groups were interested in becoming wealthy, I was to assure the Brothers and the doubting members of other districts, that we rejected wealth as corrupt and intrinsically degrading; if other minorities loved the country despite their grievances, I would assure the committee that we, immune to such absurdly human and mixed reactions, hated it absolutely; and, greatest contradiction of all, when they denounced the American scene as corrupt and degenerate, I was to say that we, though snarled inextricably within its veins and sinews, were miraculously healthy.†   (source)
  • He asked to hear all of our complaints and grievances, and listened very carefully, taking extensive notes.†   (source)
  • Hanson spoke eloquently, saying that a nation's grievances cannot be suppressed, that people will always find a way to give voice to those grievances.†   (source)
  • I wanted very much to cross swords with Percy Yutar, but it was more important that I use the platform to highlight our grievances.†   (source)
  • I have heard a great deal during the course of this case about the grievances of the non-European population.†   (source)
  • I recounted our grievances regarding food, visits, letters, studies, exercise, hard labor, and the behavior of warders.†   (source)
  • I approached the meeting as another opportunity to present our grievances, and at first he seemed content to listen.†   (source)
  • I decided that Aucamp's unexpected appearance was a singular opportunity to present our grievances to the man who had the power to remedy them.†   (source)
  • I enumerated the many times that we had brought our grievances before the government and the equal number of times that we were ignored or shunted aside.†   (source)
  • The accused have told me and their counsel have told me that the accused who were all leaders of the non-European population were motivated entirely by a desire to ameliorate these grievances.†   (source)
  • When we called meetings to discuss our grievances and later had news sessions to discuss what we had learned from the paper, the PAC boycotted these gatherings.†   (source)
  • The year of my birth marked the end of the Great War; the outbreak of an influenza epidemic that killed millions throughout the world; and the visit of a delegation of the African National Congress to the Versailles peace conference to voice the grievances of the African people of South Africa.†   (source)
  • It put forward demands and resolutions; it sent delegations to the Government in the belief that African grievances could be settled through peaceful discussion and that Africans could advance gradually to full political rights.†   (source)
  • I want to speak for the boys who were violated by this school, the ones who left ashamed and broken and dishonored, who departed from the Institute with wounds and bitter grievances.†   (source)
  • He nursed his grievance and with it the ambition to judge between life and the dark forces that distorted it, and to be life's champion and avenger.†   (source)
  • On the night of March 5, 1770, when an abusive and disorderly mob on State Street in Boston was rashly fired upon by British sentries, John Adams of Massachusetts was already a leader in the protests against British indifference to colonist grievances.†   (source)
  • X,' the suggestion is that Umkhonto was the inspiration of the Communist Party which sought by playing upon imaginary grievances to enroll the African people into an army which ostensibly was to fight for African freedom, but in reality was fighting for a communist state.†   (source)
  • Most of the complaints have come from such civic-minded and disinterested groups as various Fish and Game clubs, while members of the business community — in particular the manufacturers of some well-known brands of ammunition — have lent their weight to the support of these legitimate grievances of the voting public of this Great Dominion, because their grievance is the complaint that the wolves are killing all the deer, and more and more of our fellow citizens are coming back from more and more hunts with less and less deer.†   (source)
  • I think if a man whom I understood and liked were in love with the same woman as I am I wouldn't feel a grievance, or want to quarrel with him, I would feel a sort of tragic brotherhood with him.†   (source)
  • Fortunately or unfortunately, few follow that urge—but the provocation is there—not only from unreasonable letters and impossible requests, but also from hopelessly inconsistent demands and endlessly unsatisfied grievances.†   (source)
  • You need a national grievance—something to do with politics which is waiting to burst out.†   (source)
  • Argument, laughter, old grievances—they fall through the air, thickening it.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, it is harassed and distracted with hates and grievances.†   (source)
  • Then the shame, the disgust, the maudlin grievance, the weeping women, the excited men.†   (source)
  • "Yes," I said, but it was with a sense of grievance that I faced Lunt's reproaches next morning.†   (source)
  • Let them know that it is their right to petition for a redress of their grievances.†   (source)
  • She left her story, to which her entire devotion was due, to attend to some personal grievance.†   (source)
  • On behalf of the writers I had been reading I felt a grievance too.†   (source)
  • I remembered that I had certain grievances against her.†   (source)
  • Mulcaster had kept silent about his grievance; he and I were admonished and fined five shillings each and fifteen shillings costs.†   (source)
  • But he has a personal grievance, too; that dead rats should be found in the elevator of a three-star hotel seems to him the end of all things.†   (source)
  • The Spaniards had treated them very badly long ago, and they had been meditating upon their grievance for many generations.†   (source)
  • Their grievance weighed them down.†   (source)
  • But, though I slip in, still venting an old grievance, that parenthesis, St Ives gave us all the same that "pure delight" which is before my eyes at this very moment.†   (source)
  • Once this habit is well established you have the delightful situation of a human saying things with the express purpose of offending and yet having a grievance when offence is taken.†   (source)
  • To develop from crippled girl into crippled woman, in the family, in the house, such staleness and hardship—that's what it makes for, darkness, saturninity, oversat grievance.†   (source)
  • It was almost as though the nearer he got to his treachery the greater the grievance against his victim became.†   (source)
  • The old grievance.†   (source)
  • Our anger was like the anger of children, passing quickly from one petty grievance to another, from the memory of one slight wrong to another.†   (source)
  • "But the question may be asked, "If this boy thought that he was somehow wronged, why did he not go into a court of law and seek a redress of his grievances?†   (source)
  • They exacerbated the nerves of each other, but their love was beyond grievance, and their songs of praise were extravagant.†   (source)
  • I did want to know, but I hadn't thought of asking her, and I guessed she was making a grievance of it.†   (source)
  • When asked if my mother had complained about my conduct, he said, "Yes," but that didn't mean much; almost all the inmates of the Home had grievances against their relatives.†   (source)
  • They were the race, now represented by the Irish Republican Army rather than by the Scots Nationalists, who had always murdered landlords and blamed them for being murdered—the race which could make a national hero of a man like Lynchahaun, because he bit off a woman's nose and she a Gall—the race which had been expelled by the volcano of history into the far quarters of the globe, where, with a venomous sense of grievance and inferiority, they even nowadays proclaim their ancient megalomania.†   (source)
  • The priest took a quick look back and saw the big toes protruding like slugs out of the dirty gym shoes; the man picked his way down, muttering all the time —his perpetual grievance didn't help his wind.†   (source)
  • Her life expressed itself through a series of deceptions—of symbols: her dislikes, affections, grievances, brandishing every cause but the real one.†   (source)
  • In the company office there was a crop of minor charges and requests for compassionate leave; while it was still half-light, day began with the whine of the malingerer and the glum face and fixed eye of the man with a grievance.†   (source)
  • She was hot, shaky, and hasty, and heavy clear tears gave her eyes that crazy largeness of grievance that sometimes they would get.†   (source)
  • It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman.†   (source)
  • Not that she had any special grievance where she worked, but she believed in unions and she was on fine terms with her organizer, a man named Grammick.†   (source)
  • Even at the beginning, she would become almost frantic reciting her grievances, telling the story of her service to Eliza in a voice that became harsh and hysterical: "Let the least little thing go wrong and she's at the phone.†   (source)
  • All desire to protest, to preach, to proclaim an injury, to pay off a score, to make the world the witness of some hardship or grievance was fired out of him and consumed.†   (source)
  • But what you must do meanwhile is get ready, have your people sign the cards, and prepare your demands and grievances.†   (source)
  • We are all going to heaven and Vandyck is of the company—in other words, how good life seemed, how sweet its rewards, how trivial this grudge or that grievance, how admirable friendship and the society of one's kind, as, lighting a good cigarette, one sunk among the cushions in the window-seat.†   (source)
  • Giving herself these feminine cares in the brightness of her suite in the soft-blown-open summer beauty, she was not satisfied without social digging and the toil of grievances and antipathies.†   (source)
  • She didn't seem to recall what grievances she had against me either, and when we sat down together on a bench in the parlor, between some silent old people, asked me, "And how is—is jener, the idiot?"†   (source)
  • Instead there was a rush on me of people having to have immediate action; some hand-hacked old kitchen stiff as thickened with grease as a miner or sandhog would be with clay, wanting me to go and see his boss, subito; or an Indian would bring his grievances written in a poem on a paper bag soaked with doughnut oil.†   (source)
  • Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.†   (source)
  • Mercedes nursed a special grievance—the grievance of sex.†   (source)
  • "No," cried Lucy, remembering her grievance.†   (source)
  • Flora has now her grievance, and she'll work it to the end.†   (source)
  • The friend, with a grievance in his eye, went to the youth.†   (source)
  • 'Oh,' said I. And out came the grievance.†   (source)
  • "Barrymore considers that he has a grievance," he said.†   (source)
  • I don't mean to say that Edward had any grievance in that.†   (source)
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