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How to use the word grievance in a Sentence?

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Instead of making complaints to SEBI against broking firms, write your grievance on social networking platforms so that other investors can be protected because SEBI is worthless.

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
1 year ago

Airing your grievances is only half the battle when it comes to feeling better, make sure someone validates the emotions behind each grievance, or do this for yourself. For example, if you say,' I hate feeling trapped at home,' give it a response like,' Yes ! It's terrible to feel trapped at home.' Every grievance needs a compassionate witness to be healing.

Tina Gilbertson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the grievance here, from China, is that The US is not doing enough domestically, and wants to point its finger toward Beijing.

Li Shuo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[Lewicka] moved to Watford within weeks of the conclusion of her grievance and in the absence of any other explanation for this situation we find that her exclusion was victimization which continued until around the time of her dismissal.

Jennifer Bartlett

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In our day to day life we go through various activities which may involve high work pressure and high workload and as per us, we feel that this burden of work is resulting in causing frustration. Though we don't realize that it is not the workload which causes this frustration and annoyance but rather it is our negligence in the proper management of that work. If you avoid mismanagement of your work and duties you are likely to face frustration, annoyance, and grievance much lesser.

Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
4 years ago

Aaron Stein was expounding on a more personal, deeply held grievance about Turkey's global role.

Aaron Stein

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There are several pathways we observe : antisocial individuals who are part of a gang, depressed and despondent persons who are highly distressed over a grievance and believe they have no future, and a small group of persons with severe mental illness that includes delusional thinking, in a workplace shooting, you want to look at the latter two as most likely.

Adam Lankford

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Let's run the clock back to 1933, which is really what I was trying to address, and in 1933, what did we see in Germany ? A cult of personality, a cult of nationalism, a cult of grievance, a press operation that looked like and was the ministry of propaganda and then the punishing of marginalized groups.

Michael Hayden

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is no serious military threat out of this, but the way it is being used to justify or to create a disturbance in the region is just unacceptable, there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening Qatar.

Sheikh Mohammed

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Now if there's been some huge categorical change in the party and the party is completely obsessed with a grievance candidate they can get one, you know, it's possible: we lose 42 states, it'll be Republican (George) McGovern. But I think that's unlikely. Not impossible but unlikely.

Mike Murphy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If it was a grievance or terroristic related, we just don't know.

Marilyn Hutcheson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We're apprehensive, not knowing what transpired, if it was a grievance or terroristic related, we just don't know.

Marilyn Hutcheson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This proposed action by Obama’s Big Labor NLRB is a direct assault on a worker’s fundamental First Amendment right to freedom of association. - Greg Mourad, House Committee on Education has shown that union officials all too often initiate on-the-job discrimination, which forces a worker into the grievance process the union bosses control, in order to punish him or her for not joining the union in the first place.

Mark Mix

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A hero's funeral is about grieving, not grievance, i issue no mandates, and I make no threats of discipline, but I remind you that when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor and decency that go with it.

William Bratton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Because neighboring states have expressed concern about Colorado-grown marijuana coming into their states, we are not entirely surprised by this action, however, it appears the plaintiffs' primary grievance stems from non-enforcement of federal laws regarding marijuana, as opposed to choices made by the voters of Colorado.

Colorado Attorney General

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

However, it appears the plaintiffs' primary grievance stems from non-enforcement of federal laws regarding marijuana, as opposed to choices made by the voters of Colorado, we believe this suit is without merit and we will vigorously defend against it in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Colorado Attorney General

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffer

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Alen Coren

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Eva Pern

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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