Sentence examples for a spring of discontent from inspiring English sources

Labour's election preparations risk being derailed by the strikes at British Airways and on the railways, allowing the Tories to revel in a "spring of discontent".

So much for a winter of discontent.

January 1998 was a winter of discontent for Ms. Carman.

For it has been a winter of discontent for us, a particularly hard one in more than three decades of discontentment.

Universities and researchers are now preparing for a winter of discontent, as arguments rage over the future of the research councils, HEFCE and the research excellence framework.

It is tempting to say that Paul Cayard, the San Francisco-based sailor of America's Cup and Whitbread Race fame, has had a winter of discontent.

WHILE photography blossoms and spreads unchecked in the art galleries, photojournalism and documentary photography generally shiver in a winter of discontent.

Now, with Congress entering a winter of discontent, each side expressed outrage — much of it manufactured — on Wednesday and blamed the other side for the potential debacle looming at the end of the week.

But Ireland will take years to recover from a crash that has dented national pride and could yet result in a winter of discontent as Lenihan's brutal budget takes effect.

"It's a winter of discontent in Iran, with natural disasters and pollution exacerbating the plight of a population that is fed up with political and economic stagnation," Ali Vaez, the director of the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group, told me.

This has been a winter of discontent for residents in Waterbury, for whom those perennially favorite grievances, high taxes and questionable moves by city government, suddenly have reached Shakespearean proportions.