grievance
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Should my friend file a grievance with the State Bar of Texas?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
“We feel abandoned,” she said, echoing a widely shared grievance among Ceutíes, as the locals call themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
What makes the CJP unusual, however, is not simply its scale but the nature and breadth of its grievance.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
That if you are loud enough, and your engine is big enough, and your grievance is hot enough, that is the same thing as being a man.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
He skipped some years or forgot or decided according to some personal accounting of grievance that the plantation was undeserving.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Ochieng said the mutiny "demonstrates deep divisions and grievances within the security apparatus", in a country whose soldiers are "constantly in the line of fire, fighting militants".
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Northern Ireland's five largest teaching unions have voted to strike if the Department of Education does not address grievances over workload.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
But the growing outrage has inevitably become a flashpoint amid broader, simmering grievances felt by Vietnam's youth.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Injuries sufficient to support standing must be concrete and particularized, not generalized grievances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Finally, the compromise called for a special impartial committee to be created to hear the policemen’s grievances.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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The Bill of Rights
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