| Envy is defined as discontentment with one's lot and a desire for the attributes or possessions of another person. |
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| The first alternative is a shortcut to insolvency, the second, a recipe for discontentment and civil unrest. |
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| The discontentment resurfaced when bank savings accounts were frozen, a step needed to implement the dollarization. |
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| The article really hit home for me and spoke to the root of my restlessness and discontentment in life. |
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| Such an autocratic style of leading a family leads to repression and suppression giving rise to feelings of discontentment and unhappiness. |
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| These problems easily can lead to discontentment and frustration for new staff members and may hamper the learning experience. |
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| The benefits of such partnerships would be phenomenal and would help save our forest and address the discontentment of the rural people. |
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| The professional photographers were stressed out, but it seemed to be a general discomfort, a general stress of discontentment. |
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| In East Pakistan, discontentment due to economic and political deprivation had turned into bitterness. |
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| All that strikebreakers do is bring discontentment to the picket line and discontentment throughout the whole process. |
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| Growth in poorer countries will foster rising discontentment and a corresponding increase in both internal and international migrations. |
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| But the mood has been building for several years, diffused through a host of single issue campaigns, through numerous signs of dissent and discontentment. |
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| The question about the meaning of life adds a more global discontentment to the daily suffering: What am I suffering for? |
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| These conditions, along with the lack of support from the municipalities, cause some discontentment among teachers. |
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| Unemployment, existential fear or discontentment in a job are basal facts to think about starting a business. |
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| But there is unprecedented discontentment in Hong Kong over the scramble for public resources. |
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| For many businesses in the design sector, there is a growing discontentment with the standard of goods produced in the Far East. |
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| With me in that Bundesbahn car, which had, I suppose, survived the war — within me — was a certain grain of discontentment. |
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| There was a risk that the ex-servicemen would swell the ranks of Reds, as discontentment brewed amongst the demobbed soldiers. |
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| It is a testimony of plunder, deprivation, conflict, discontentment, and environmental degradation as never before seen in Liberia. |
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| Increase the number of positive responses to your requests and reduce volunteer burnout and discontentment by assigning a specific term length to each position or task. |
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| If this year's general election taught us anything, it's that there's discontentment amongst the electorate. |
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| Instead, opulence breeds discontentment and eventual self-destruction. |
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| The Tories had furthest to fall, having swept the last major local election in 2009, and, as the main ruling party, were an obvious target for mid-term discontentment. |
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| Lower social taxation, however, gives enterprises a competitive advantage in the short term, and this leads to discontentment among enterprises in countries with higher taxation levels. |
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| In the struggles among elites for power and economic benefits, the permanent discontentment among the excluded and disempowered parts of society provides a critical resource to destabilize and overthrow central government. |
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| In addition, discontentment took over the people, shocked by the special postings, the problems of everyday life and the increase in the cost of living. |
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| But so is a general discontentment about the operation of a federal system that currently favours a politically and financially strong federal government to the detriment of weak state and local governments. |
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| Political parties, civil society organizations, pressure groups and citizen initiatives are important vehicles for the articulation of interests and discontentment. |
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| Although there was some discontentment with TCA's monopoly on transcontinental routes, the daily Canadian Pacific flights put a dent in the publicly owned airlines' budget. |
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| Chronic physical ailments and a pervasive mood of discontentment are common complaints, both of which are understandable in light of their circumstances and limited coping resources. |
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| In April Whittle learned of Rover's parallel effort, creating discontentment and causing a major crisis in the programme. |
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| In turn, the English hated him, but the king retaliated ruthlessly with his military force to subdue the rebellions and discontentment. |
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| Furthermore, the plausibility of a negativistic personality orientation with chronic discontentment set in an oppositional and resentful posture may be worth considering. |
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