Sentences with 'grievances'
Example sentences and phrases with the word grievances and other words derived from it.
• « Even as members of the Third Estate drew up their lists of grievances, rumours spread that nobles and wealthy merchants were hoarding grain to drive up prices. »
• « Pieces of foreign territory, political unions with closely related German territories and the growth of German military power were seen by desperate British and French politicians as things about which Germans could have legitimate grievances, and so they played on the idea that Germany, and even more so Hitler, could be appeased once these issues were addressed. »
• « While these gentlemen prepared their grievances during the Stamp Act Congress, other colonists showed their displeasure with the new law by boycotting British goods and protesting in the streets. »
• « The Declaration, written primarily by Jefferson, included a long list of grievances against King George III and established the basis of American government as a republic in which the consent of the governed would be paramount. »