The shenanigans provoked a remarkable uprising in the small southern town of Wukan in December, and protests happen elsewhere almost daily.To calm rural discontent, larger cities now offer more generous compensation, Joyce Yanyun Man of Peking University says.
The defections to the Mexican league and the threat of a strike by the Pirates prompted owners to form an advisory committee, chaired by Larry MacPhail, to suggest needed changes that would calm the discontent among the players.
Despite his reputation as a strict disciplinarian and his aloof stance which led to the mutiny of 588, in later campaigns he showed ability in dealing with the soldiers and calming their discontent.
Still varying thy perplexing Form, Now a Dead Sea thou'lt represent, A Calm of stupid Discontent, Then, dashing on the Rocks wilt rage into a Storm.
But beneath the surface calm is a sea of discontent and concern.
Only a fool prone to debilitating bouts of xenophobia would now decry the input of Houllier, for if nothing else he has introduced order and almost reverential calm where there was seething discontent which at times appeared to verge on outright mutiny.
During the early part of the process she remained calm, communicating through her lawyers discontent with the manner that the flag was being handled while presenting the evidence.
That might explain why, despite all the discontent, San Cristobal remains pretty calm during the day - and there have not been reports of large violent clashes lately.
Free from the hold of desire and the ceaseless undulation of discontent, one reaps an inner calm and grows at ease with the external world.
As Americans raced to keep up with the Dow Joneses, seeds of discontent percolated under the seemingly calm financial surface.
