Do we say grievance or grievants

grievance 534 occurrences

Besides, they had a keen grievance which obscured any worry about Billthey were hungry, wildly hungry.

He tells Bernard Barton on March 20, 1826, "My tirade against visitors was not meant particularly at you or A.K. I scarce know what I meant, for I do not just now feel the grievance.

Major?" The old soldier had already forgotten his grievance.

You know very well the grievance I had against him.

Never heard of such a thing!" It might have been monstrous, but it gave me an excellent grievance with the jury, even if the Marquis did not see his way to allow the question; and a grievance is worth something, if you have no defence.

Never heard of such a thing!" It might have been monstrous, but it gave me an excellent grievance with the jury, even if the Marquis did not see his way to allow the question; and a grievance is worth something, if you have no defence.

The great grievance of which the more advanced and enlightened complained was the interference of the Pope with ecclesiastical livings in England.

" "He is an Englishman with a grievance," Selingman continued.

"If the grievance cuts deep enough, he mayBut we gossip.

It is worth noticing that the French people in general did not regard the power of arbitrary imprisonment exercised by their kings as a grievance.

Though the murmurs of the ecclesiastics; which were quickly propagated to the nation, rose high against this grievance, the terror of William's authority, confirmed by the suppression of the late insurrections, retained every one in subjection, and preserved general tranquillity in England.

There arose from all these confusions many unjust dealings with the merchants; and there was no grievance so intolerable, or treatment so bad, but what was exercised upon the Arab merchants, and captains of ships, extorting from them what was altogether uncustomary, seizing upon their effects, and behaving towards them quite contrary to all the ancient usages; so that our merchants were forced to return in crowds to Siraff and Oman.

In all this the shareholder, as the directors occasionally assure themselves, has no real grievance, for he will gain in the long run, from the appreciation in the capital value of his shares, all and perhaps more than all that he foregoes in the meantime in the way of dividends.

It is sufficient to assure him that the public money has been diverted from the proper uses it was raised for because he has had no share of it himself, and the government ill managed because he has no hand in it, which, truly, is a very great grievance to the people, that understand, by himself and his party, that are their representatives, and ought to understand for them how able he is for it.

Many of these have been formed to remedy some pressing grievance, or to secure some definite advance of wage, and in certain cases of skilled factory work where the women have maintained a steady front, as among the match- makers and the confectioners, considerable concessions have been won from employers.

(Cheers.) "Scrutator," who followed, disclaimed any personal grievance.

But this was not the actual grievance, after all.

" There is a touch of bitterness in these lines that is unmistakably that of a personal grievance, even if the poet's son had not confirmed the inference in a foot-note.

Yet that bargain, a losing one as it was on the part of the Free States, having been annulled, can hardly be reckoned a present grievance.

I'll talk to the men any time, and do everything I can to adjust any legitimate grievance they may have.

Certainly their grievance, as it was put before us at home, was frankly and purely political.

R70726, 30Nov50, The National Acme Co. (P) GRIEVANCE, By Amy Lowell.

To refuse war, to tamely allow the South to withdraw and set up a government of her own, would be but the beginning of the end; at the first grievance California, Massachusetts, any State, could and would become independent.

By the quotation the Bishop sets down to show the slavery of the French church, he represents it as a grievance, that "bishops are not now elected there as formerly, but wholly appointed by the prince; and that those made by the court have been ordinarily the chief advancers of schisms, heresies, and oppressions of the church."

And the want of synods are in his own opinion rather a blessing than a grievance, unless he will affirm that more good can be expected from a popish synod than an English Convocation.

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