8 sentences with 'discontent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word discontent and other words derived from it.
• « Huge numbers of middle-class or even working-class young people became the first in their families to attend universities, and the contentious political climate of the Cold War and decolonisation contributed to an explosion of discontent that reached its peak in the late 1960s. »
• « However, the problem for women in the post-war period was widespread discontent and dissatisfaction with the social role they were forced to play, along with overtly sexist laws and oppressive cultural codes. »
• « As Viceroy Sobre Monte avoided taking part in the fighting, discontent and opposition against him intensified in the city. Finally, a war council meeting in Buenos Aires on the 10th dismissed him and ordered him to be transferred as a prisoner, which was done. »
• « These merchants were among the most powerful and influential people in the colonies, so their discontent carried some weight. »
• « In this way, Paine helped channel colonial discontent to the king himself rather than, as had been the case, to the British Parliament, a bold move that signalled a desire to create a new political order that completely disavowed the monarchy. »
• « The extent of their discontent was embodied in their plan to form an independent western commonwealth, and they even began negotiations with British and Spanish representatives, hoping to gain their support for independence from the United States. »
• « The depth of Federalist discontent is illustrated by the minutes of the Hartford Convention of December 1814, a meeting of twenty-six Federalists in Connecticut, at which some attendees called for New England to secede from the United States. »
• « The greatest source of discontent, however, was the Mexican government's abolition of slavery in 1829. Most American settlers came from southern states and many had brought slaves with them. Mexico tried to please them by maintaining the fiction that the slaves were indentured servants. »