Sentence examples for years discontent from inspiring English sources

By 1930 the population had almost quadrupled, to 1.24m, in two decades, and Los Angeles had leapfrogged San Francisco to become California's first (and America's fifth) city.Over the years discontent among the farmers of the Owens Valley, who saw their river diverted, their lake dry up and their air fill with particulates, has occasionally erupted: first into violence, later into litigation.

Swartland farmers had been largely insulated from the causes of discontent of earlier years, discontent which eventually culminated in the mass Boer migrations of the Great Trek.

If they are squeezed next year discontent will turn to anger.

Libertarians are a generally Republican-leaning constituency, but over the last few years, their discontent has grown plain.

For the past few years, public discontent has erupted into small demonstrations and violence across the country.

Now, emboldened by the presence of the monks, huge crowds have joined the demonstrations in protests that reflect years of discontent over economic hardship and political repression.

Both groups have fared well in the boom years; but discontent is growing (see article), and they distrust each other, as well as the party.On March 16th the government unveiled a long-awaited plan for managing urbanisation.

While Saturday's action by the African National Congress's 86-member national executive committee required a day and a half of deliberations, it was actually the culmination of seven years of discontent between South Africa's most powerful politicians: Mr. Mbeki and Mr. Zuma, the man he fired in 2005 as his deputy.

Rather, the emblematic figure of Chile's year of discontent is Camila Vallejo, a 23-year-old Communist student leader.

If Paul did run again as a Libertarian, he would surely exceed the Party's best-ever performance in a Presidential election of about a million votes nationally, in 1980, another year of discontent.

EXPLANATORY REPORTING THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE In a year of discontent among air travelers, The Tribune published a series of articles, titled "Gateway to Gridlock," that traced the fortunes of individual passengers, a major airline, an overburdened air traffic control system and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.