Sentence examples for a basic grievance from inspiring English sources

Ross believes Arab antipathy toward America has been greatly heightened by the perception that Bush is "indifferent to a conflict that animated a basic grievance among those in the Arab and Islamic worlds".

The British never fathomed our basic grievance — this was our land, not theirs!

But he delineates what seem to have been the principals' basic grievances.

While the dozens of AlMaghrib students I interviewed condemned the tactics of militant groups, many share their basic grievances.

"A better England," he said, and I could instantly sense that he had a basic set of grievances – about insecurity and unfairness – to which the political left would once have been able to confidently speak.

It must, however, be stated on behalf of the National Democratic Party that it was the first nationalist organization to distinguish clearly between the remedial approach to grievances and a basic approach that attacked the main cause of grievances against an unjust system.

The right of the people to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances," as the First Amendment to the United States Constitution phrases it, would seem to be a basic feature of the relationship between citizen and state.

A basic W.E.F.