Addressing reporters, Pelosi dismissed concerns that her loss was a sign of brewing discontent within the party.
With its economy on the brink of bankruptcy, huge swaths of its natural environment burned to cinders and brewing discontent, there is rare but widespread consensus that the country is in a mess.
Chris Chase, Yahoo's Shutdown Corner blog: Though neither of the coaches said so in their post-game press conference, the brewing discontent may actually have started much earlier, during a strange first quarter incident in which Harbaugh tried to challenge a touchdown he wasn't allowed to challenge.
Then how would the army spend its days?In an attempt to head off any brewing discontent, Mr Obasanjo needs to work closely over the next few months and beyond with General Abubakar, making sure that he does not alienate the army completely, even as he seeks to restructure it and implement economic reforms to rescue the country from the army's own past excesses.
With so much at stake, analysts were left to puzzle over the question posed by France's Le Monde in its front-page editorial Wednesday: "What fly bit Papandreou?" Some commentators said the Greek leader, aware of brewing discontent in his own party's ranks against the new bailout plan and the piled-on austerity measures, decided to go on the offensive.
The streets of Egypt are brewing with discontent in response to a "politicised" verdict: protests in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez are already at full pelt and will increase as the searing summer sun winds down.
Much of the answer lies in Brussels's strange position in the Belgian federal system — a position that has encouraged political elites on both sides of Belgium's politicized linguistic divide to ignore the brewing social discontents in one of the country's poorest neighborhoods.
"There is some discontent brewing, for the reasons that the third world countries put their soldiers in harm's way" and Western countries are seen as not willing to do so, said Mr. Karnad .
"There is a lot of discontent brewing," said Brian D. McLaren, the founding pastor at Cedar Ridge Community Church in Gaithersburg, Md., and a leader in the evangelical movement known as the "emerging church," which is at the forefront of challenging the more politicized evangelical establishment.
But Thursday's general strike, called by the Confederation of General Workers Union (CGTP), is a test of discontent brewing below the surface.
