In reality, however, it was plain that Macdowall, far from raising spirits, was fanning the embers of discontent. |
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It is easy to see why rumour abounds about the levels of discontent simmering within the company. |
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Most patients were content with their care, the determining feature of discontent being a doctor seen as rude, abrupt, or unsympathetic. |
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I see all these colours against a background of acid yellow, with a touch of green for envy, malice and general discontent. |
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As we waited, annoyed discontent began to give way to barely controllable rage. |
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Today, discontent tended to make me think it's all a hollow shell, that perhaps all that effort, all that sacrifice, were not worth my while. |
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Less than a year into his hard-won presidential mandate, the president is reaping a bitter harvest of popular discontent. |
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Those long years in the political wilderness were traumatized by discord and discontent. |
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Analysts described the result as a reflection of deep-rooted popular discontent over the state government's failure. |
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In the light of the discontent on the back-benches, we have to have alternatives. |
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Influenced by popular discontent with much of the judiciary, Napoleon attempted to write a statutory code that was essentially judge-proof. |
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Popular discontent with the limitations of Gladstonian Liberalism was also developing. |
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And indeed ominous rumblings of discontent could be heard beneath the cheerful banter of returning faculty and staff. |
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By 2000, rumblings of discontent have made themselves manifest in the party. |
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I also hear there have been rumblings of discontent among some of the fans over the timing of our trip. |
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Recently, a few rumblings of discontent with the institutional status quo have been felt from various parts of Canada. |
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But despite the public show of unity from the current council, rumblings of discontent were not far from the surface. |
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At the same time, he was equipped with a political antenna that was finely attuned to social discontent and class conflict. |
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Residents in Passage East are enduring another summer of discontent due to traffic tailbacks approaching the local car ferry. |
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Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed. |
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His ambition to succeed, however, occasionally caused discontent with his back-room staff. |
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Although his speech was well received there were murmurs of discontent later on in the bar. |
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But underneath the searing humour runs a strain of deep discontent at the lives of the dispossessed in society. |
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Son of George, with what art thou now again discontent, or what lack is thine? |
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There is discontent and he is a bit of a focus for that, but this latest outbreak has also thrust the spotlight on other potential replacements. |
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Any murmurs of discontent at another apparently self-destructive week had disappeared into cheers inside four minutes. |
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Two major factors contributed most powerfully to the discontent and distrust expressed by the family and consumer groups. |
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But many of their members have expressed discontent, and the society is showing signs of an increased sensitiveness to the issue. |
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Provinces won in war could later be milked of tribute to enrich the Roman state and its rulers and to buy off any risk of discontent at home. |
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European social democracy cannot allow populist discontent to become a monopoly of the right. |
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Just as happened with the fuel crisis, the Westminster politicians will eventually have to sit up and take notice of Yorkshire's discontent. |
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Both were intended to inhibit any growth of the unbudgeable discontent the Irish were showing. |
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I must love all men, and never quarrel, nor be drunk, nor be unchaste, nor steal, nor tell a lie, nor be discontent with my condition. |
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And since I didn't want anyone to know I was worried about this, I've been sulking and skulking and letting the discontent grow. |
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Your father's success in foreign policy was quickly undone by discontent on domestic policies and a bad economy. |
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Admittedly, not everyone approved of the choice of act and there some murmurings of discontent and certainly a fair degree of surprise. |
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Although the package was approved by the authority, there were still murmurings of discontent among union officials. |
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During the week there had been murmurings of discontent from some quarters. |
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The Spaniards grew fearful, uneasy and their discontent soon turned to open mutiny. |
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These numbers are staggering, but they are drawn from a bottomless reservoir of discontent in Europe. |
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Well, I think he tapped into a vein of discontent among the American people. |
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He had been an influential spokesman of the left since the 1950s, but his reputation suffered greatly in the run-up to the winter of discontent. |
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As with every seduction, however, the excitement of the chase soon is replaced by discontent and even misery. |
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With the rise of oil wealth, the gap between rich and poor widened, stoking the social discontent that would erupt in the revolution. |
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The discontent that had been brewing within the Workers' Party soon came out into the open. |
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It seems to me that part of the problem is that the opposition has no central figure that can rally all these different strands of discontent. |
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Since his sermon he has found himself acting as lightning rod for widespread discontent with the direction Orangeism has taken. |
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His birth chart indicates much tension in his love life and suggests a divine discontent that would never let him rest on his laurels. |
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His poetry expresses a discontent with orderly lives and humdrum routine, praising spontaneity and emotion. |
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This was the spark that ignited the discontent aroused by the eradication of coca fields, following Washington's guidelines. |
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The truth is both the Indian and Pakistani elites have tried to defect social discontent by fanning communalism and religious fundamentalism. |
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By polarising discontent, it is transforming it from ferment to turmoil into energy spent constructively. |
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Poverty and social degradation breed discontent in certain population groups especially in the ethnically and confessionally patchy states. |
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He also denied that there was discontent brewing among party workers over his continuance in the office. |
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The problem for counterinsurgents and counterterrorists is to apply theory to distinguish between lawful or unlawful forms of discontent. |
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As public discontent over foreign policy and consecutive scandals racked public life, radical oppositional movements flared. |
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Cloaked in the frumpiness of my day job and steeped in the acrid odor of discontent, I was hardly dressed for a wine tasting. |
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In the waning days of Soviet rule, discontent continued to grow and find expression under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost. |
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Its hero, Milo, is perpetually dejected, burdened with motiveless discontent. |
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Most of her subjects took three years to find the work that finally quieted their gnawing sense of discontent. |
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He likes to portray himself as helping to publicize a groundswell of popular discontent at the demise of American manufacturing. |
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As she watched her lead gradually whittled away on election night, she could hear the first grumblings of discontent among the party faithful. |
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Of course, there have been growing grumblings of discontent but they have largely been saved for the final whistle. |
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Not dissatisfaction with the present, but discontent with what would be the case if one did not act, is necessary for action. |
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Both figures were substantially down from highs last July after 500,000 people took to the streets to voice discontent with the government. |
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So he has no need to worry about domestic discontent with his regime, and the external pressure from the crisis has faded considerably. |
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The internet may well be the only way we can communicate our frustration and discontent with the sad state of affairs we find ourselves in. |
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It follows widespread discontent with the tax this year, particularly among pensioners, which led to hundreds withholding payments. |
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But certainly, there's some level of discontent with the soldiers and all who are serving there today. |
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The woman in London asked me what I thought about it all, and I said it was a sign of discontent with the regime. |
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He expressed at the beginning of last month his discontent with the way the previous Cabinet dealt with the flood crisis. |
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He finally decided to express his extreme discontent with her via MSN this evening in a random miniature conversation. |
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And as I grow older and such messages are needed more and more frequently, my discontent with the words I find grows more and more acute. |
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In an editorial in the paper, he condemned the student association and urged students to express discontent with college officials. |
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The meeting highlighted discontent with the level of information parents are receiving about their medical and legal rights. |
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I have an odd emotional reaction to tax season, which has nothing to do with resentment over paying or discontent with the federal government. |
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Another smile played at her lips, and though she'd been discontent the day before, she couldn't recall a single complaint in that moment. |
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Another thing that factored into the decision was that I'm discontent with my websites. |
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The human captives in the encampment just outside of the city were becoming more discontent by the day. |
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But if right now you're whining and discontent with singleness, you'll likely be discontent when married. |
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First of all, citizens do not need the approval of lawmakers to show that they are discontent with the behaviour of lawmakers and their laws. |
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That night the farmer couldn't sleep. He was unhappy and he was discontent. |
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A case has been made for why accountants might not have had reason to be discontent with their conventional image. |
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He was discontent with his life in Amsterdam, yet refused to venture abroad. |
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The discontent voices really didn't seem that incensed, and the energy of the crowd as if it was felt wanting in resolve and determination. |
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The German invasion was soon followed by growing disillusionment, frustration, and discontent. |
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The move caused widespread discontent in the Conservative Party and open dissent from leading modernisers. |
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Scotland bowlers will head indoors this weekend for what even now looks likely to be a winter of discontent. |
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As part of the shift to unadorned capitalist relations, efforts appear to be underway to revive various forms of religion to help assuage social discontent. |
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Cohabitors still had a higher divorce rate and a higher level of discontent in their married life compared to couples who'd been living separately before tying the knot. |
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Though many of the appearances of Jesus in synagogues in the canonical Gospels are likely fictional, issues of social order and especially discontent come into view. |
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English Spenserians used pastoral poetry as a vehicle to express their discontent with Jacobean and Caroline court practices and ecclesiastical innovations. |
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It is an engagement technique aimed at harnessing passive discontent into PR stunts that raise awareness. |
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The bank spat the dummy over a light but legitimate pasting in BRW over internal discontent toward its management team in general and its managing director in particular. |
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When I look at my brother he still seems discontent and angry. |
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The ruling royal family, which has enjoyed the lion's share of oil wealth, is perceived as corrupt, and repression of domestic discontent is high. |
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The Nivelle offensive of April 1917 had been oversold as a war-winning master stroke, and its failure stirred deep-seated discontent into open mutiny. |
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The economy is still on a knife-edge and there is growing popular discontent with falling living standards and the lack of basic democratic rights. |
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Yet the very thing that nurtures our growth also feeds our discontent. |
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By-elections are traditionally the time when the electorate gives the government in power a slap in the face, expressing discontent with the way things are going. |
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The picket lines at railway stations, schools and Dublin Airport are only the most visible signs of a huge discontent that is now sweeping Ireland. |
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Other statements indicate a wider discontent among government officers. |
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She sighed a little discontent sigh and looked at him in distaste. |
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The State controlled the newspapers and the television and you never got to see the riots or the people who were discontent with their surroundings. |
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In Punjab, exorbitant prices of wheat, rice, barley and salt, fuelled great discontent that took the form of anti-Rowlatt Act agitations and protests. |
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It just shows the ferocious discontent with what's going on now. |
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Probably out of a discontent with the dwindling resources dedicated to film in the traditional media, we onliners are defining our own film culture as we go along. |
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But Angela suffers from an ambiguous, melancholy discontent. |
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All around us there are other women, seemingly not hurt, making small talk, acting normal, which means happy, not discontent, certainly not devastated. |
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The discontent spread to the army from which deserters joined draft dodgers in gangs that attacked government supply trains and raided plantations. |
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Apparently, the reason for our seemingly inexplicable discontent is simply that our whacking great aspirations have outstripped our ability to fulfil them. |
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Walmart has raised wages in recent years in response to worker discontent, Lichtenstein said. |
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The president was concerned to withstand pressure to expropriate white farmers, but struggled to maintain national unity as he was faced with public discontent. |
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The entire electoral setup has turned into a political stranglehold over the masses, offering no means for working people to express their social discontent. |
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As public discontent over foreign policy and consecutive scandals racked public life, discrediting the moderate Ferry ministry, radical oppositional movements flared. |
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Usually no single event precipitates the nagging feeling of discontent. |
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In return they are charged by their social betters with stifling all forms of working class discontent that might endanger the interests of capital. |
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But billeting system is that it breeds discontent among the hosted. |
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I was discontent with my job so I worked hard and did much more than the job required. It paid off quickly with me getting big raises and promotions every year. |
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In this case, though, the facts are so damning and discontent so mobilized that silence is unfeasible. |
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There may be a cabal of disgruntled former ministers on Labour's back benches, but they have largely kept their mutterings of discontent to themselves. |
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This discontent could mount were this issue to remain unaddressed. |
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An accusation of witchcraft is vague enough to serve as a kind of catchall for discontent. |
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The other explanation is that the constitution became merely the vehicle for the people to register a wider and deeper discontent with the state of affairs in Europe. |
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The underlying cause of growing discontent is the enormous degree of social inequality that has resulted from the introduction of capitalism in the former Soviet Union. |
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Despite rumblings of discontent with the party's performances over the past two years, it will come as a major surprise if Boyce is not re-elected to the position. |
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More ominously, there is a rising tide of discontent that threatens to turn the streets into war zones. |
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Hamas exploits the resulting Arab discontent to fan the flames of violence and war. |
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The rumblings of discontent are getting louder, more sustained. |
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His new documentary, A Cinema of discontent, is about film censorship in Iran. |
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Almost from the beginning, there have been rumblings of discontent about Pope Francis. |
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The affable John Southworth registers his discontent mildly yet emphatically, his soft British accent shading the offending phrase with the damning taint of dismissiveness. |
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After 40 minutes I'm sure I detected a ripple of discontent. |
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The elderly of this city need and deserve peace and contentment, not the discontent and uncertainty being forced on them by heartless and unfeeling councillors. |
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Amongst mainstream philosophers, discontent with physicalism led to a modest revival of property dualism in the last decade of the twentieth century. |
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Aussie Brown shipped Lunt out on loan to Leeds last season before leaving his Giants post prematurely amid reports of player discontent. |
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These cuts particularly affected regional governments, the main public service providers, fuelling Catalan secessionism and regional discontent. |
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By boycotting the elections, the political parties will show that they are discontent with the election atmosphere. |
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Baffour might spend donkey's years expressing discontent over the injustice or selective justice against Taylor for all we care. |
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Edward invaded France, for the third and last time, hoping to capitalise on the discontent and seize the throne. |
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The kettle of discontent finally came to an overboil, in public, 24 hours after the Cup win. |
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Its origins lay in the discontent with the Elizabethan Religious Settlement. |
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Military failure abroad, and the associated fiscal pressure of constant campaigns, led to political discontent at home. |
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The combination of discontent and economic collapse brought about the revolution. It did not do so simply double-handedly. |
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Meanwhile, the fiscal pressure on the kingdom caused by Edward's expensive alliances led to discontent at home. |
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Henry became the focus of discontent as the population, agricultural production, prices, the wool trade and credit declined in the Great Slump. |
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The military losses in France, poor weather, and failed harvests increased public discontent. |
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The government avoided indirect taxes because they raised the cost of living, and caused discontent among the working class. |
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Even more discontent resulted when the King allowed his Scottish nobles to collect the recusancy fines. |
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Hobbes came home, in 1637, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. |
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He became outwardly discontent, and his diary was filled with prayers and laments over her death which continued until his own. |
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This caused much discontent among most of the other participating countries, and mass walkouts were threatened. |
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Adolf Hitler was able to gain popularity by utilising German discontent with the still controversial Treaty of Versailles. |
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Under Tomas Masaryk, Czech and Slovak politicians promoted progressive social and economic conditions that served to defuse discontent. |
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Her supporters in the party viewed the result as a success, and rejected suggestions that there was discontent within the party. |
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The system is still episcopal but the points which caused discontent were amended to be acceptable to both sides. |
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Some latent discontent between different national churches exists also in part due to different approach towards ecumenism. |
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Smith's discontent at Oxford might be in part due to the absence of his beloved teacher in Glasgow, Francis Hutcheson. |
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This increased popular discontent with the New Order and led to popular protest across the country. |
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Although relations among different religious and ethnic groups are largely harmonious, sectarian discontent and violence have persisted. |
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The failure of the colonisation project provoked tremendous discontent throughout Lowland Scotland where almost every family had been affected. |
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Adolf Hitler was able to gain popularity by using German discontent with the still controversial Treaty of Versailles. |
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In the late 1970s, punk music was a way for youth in the British Isles to voice their discontent with the ruling class. |
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Poor employment opportunities, and social discontent were once again seen as factors in the rioting. |
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The referendums in Scotland and Wales coincided with a period of unpopularity for the Government in the wake of the winter of discontent. |
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Because of this discontent, on 28 April 1794, during an uprising in Cagliari, two Savoyard officials were killed. |
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This fueled much discontent in parts of France which would contribute to the civil war breaking out some years later. |
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Widespread discontent spread through the populace upon the announcement of the treaty terms. |
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Its construction led to enormous debt to European banks, and caused popular discontent because of the onerous taxation it required. |
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Odysseus confronts and beats Thersites, a common soldier who voices discontent about fighting Agamemnon's war. |
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Subsequently, discontent with Spartan hegemony led to the Corinthian War and the defeat of Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra. |
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Alexander was the last of the Syrian emperors and the first emperor to be overthrown by military discontent on a wide scale. |
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By the time he died, China was in severe debt and the Yuan court faced popular discontent. |
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This gave rise to discontent, and, to check an eventual rebellion, the government ordered all the inhabitants to surrender their arms. |
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Although the economy continued to flourish for some, social inequality remained a factor of discontent. |
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There was discontent in the Netherlands about Philip's taxation demands and the incessant persecution of Protestants. |
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The new technology provoked discontent among traditional scribes, leading to the Print Yard being burned in an arson attack. |
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Under this code, increased state taxes and regulations altered the social discontent that had been simmering since the Time of Troubles. |
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As Muscovy regained stability, discontent steadily grew within the serf and peasant populations. |
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In 2005, Belize was the site of unrest caused by discontent with the PUP government, including tax increases in the national budget. |
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The captain rarely referred to his wardroom for advice, and this resulted in their discontent. |
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And there were rumblings of discontent on the Labour backbenches, with one former minister urging Mr Prescott to consider his position. |
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Conversely, he desponds at the sight of discontent on the train and at his inability to change the situation. |
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As the elite are unmasked as epically corrupt, public discontent grows. |
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The British looked for increased recruitment in the Punjab for the Bengal army as a result of the apparent discontent that resulted in the Sepoy conflict. |
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Hemans herself was able to balance both roles without much public ridicule, but left hints of discontent through the themes of feminine death in her writing. |
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Another target of popular discontent was la de-recha endogen. |
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In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Victoria's popularity soared, mitigating residual discontent over the Hastings affair and the bedchamber crisis. |
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The discontent of the late 1820s, culminating in serious disturbances in 1831, including the Merthyr Rising persuaded the government to take action in favour of reform. |
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Gaveston's arrogance and power as Edward's favourite provoked discontent both among the barons and the French royal family, and Edward was forced to exile him. |
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The unorthodox use of tartan, which had long been associated with authority and gentility, was then seen as the expression of discontent against modern society. |
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In this one, Marilyn's longtime girlfriends have been telling her that her restlessness, hot flashes and general discontent are pre-menopausal signs. |
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The economic benefits of Union which had been promised by proponents of the Act were slow to materialise, causing widespread discontent amongst the population. |
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From the 1990s, signs of discontent continued and included, in 2003 and 2004, a series of bombings and armed violence in Riyadh, Jeddah, Yanbu and Khobar. |
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High taxes and a growth in unemployment have contributed to discontent, and has been reflected in a rise in civil unrest, and discontent with the royal family. |
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They claimed to be guiding and counseling reform initiatives to prevent the outbreaks of popular discontent that caused instability and revolution across Europe. |
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These ratings, together with Thatcher's combative personality and willingness to override colleagues' opinions, contributed to discontent within her party. |
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Marshall Plan aid allowed the nations of Western Europe to relax austerity measures and rationing, reducing discontent and bringing political stability. |
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Certainly, despite the lucklessness of Coventry's last-ditch defeat to Ipswich Town on Monday night, there were more than just rumblings of discontent at Highfield Road. |
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Growing discontent among the population eventually peaked in August 1944 with King Michael's Coup, and the country switched sides to join the Allies. |
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Lord North's government was chiefly concerned with discontent in America. |
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This growing civil discontent, the abundance of feuding nobles with private armies, and corruption in Henry VI's court formed a political climate ripe for civil war. |
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He was the first Yuan emperor to actively support and adopt mainstream Chinese culture after the reign of Kublai, to the discontent of some Mongol elite. |
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Edward was reluctant to leave the country, as discontent was once again brewing domestically, particularly over his relationship with the favourite Hugh Despenser the Younger. |
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In Normandy some of the border barons rose up and, although the majority of the duchy remained openly loyal, there appears to have been a wider undercurrent of discontent. |
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And in the midst of better conditions and brighter prospects the shameless, brainless, fameless bipeds pollute the atmosphere, poison hearts and plant discontent. |
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A major cause of this discontent was heavy taxation imposed on the population, while support and guidance from the government was hampered by the size of the Habsburg empire. |
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Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. |
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The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat. |
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Craig knows the grumbling of discontent comes with the territory. |
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Under the influence of the great nobles who had unsuccessfully opposed the election of Godunov, the general discontent was expressed as hostility to him as a usurper. |
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