Sentence examples for great grievance from inspiring English sources

He stood watching them for a while, a great grievance exploding in his mind.

His mind surges: the novel is a tour de force of interior monologue, slipping between tenses and locations to the rhythm of Cleaver's great grievance — which turns out to be (rather to his surprise) not the immediate injury of his son's book but a deeper pain altogether.

Qing annals also report that when Nurhaci announced his Seven Great Grievances against the Ming dynasty in April 1618, he conducted a shamanic ceremony during which he burned an oath to Heaven written on a piece of yellow paper.

And his greatest grievance is with Britain itself.

His greatest grievance came when he planted ten tobacco plants, only to return a day later to find them annihilated.

But it did not really compensate for a much greater grievance – specifically, the failure to hold a referendum on the treaty of Lisbon.

Whether it is United or Rooney who has the greatest grievance, there can be only one winner among fans when their club is in dispute with an unsettled player, and it is not the entity who pulls on the shirt.

But Italy's greatest grievances revolved around two specific incidents in extra-time.

In America, the corporation is king and the abuses of corporate power are the subject of our people's greatest grievances.

These two strategies ended up triggering greater grievances on the part of public sector employees [ 43].

For the whites the boycott has been as great a grievance as the gerrymander has been for the Negroes.