The Speenhamland system appears to have reached its height during the Napoleonic Wars, when it was a means of allaying dangerous discontent amongst a growing rural proletariat faced by soaring food prices, and to have died out in the post-war period, except in a few parishes.

Local discontent reached its climax on 29 November 1980, the day of the Queensland Election, when a bomb was set off at Iwasaki Resort.

By 1962, faculty discontent with Leary's experiments reached critical mass.

There have been numerous other expressions of discontent within Fatah, which is just holding its first general congress in two decades.

The government raised the price of gasoline, which it had been selling at a huge loss to quiet popular discontent, and the hyperinflation came to a halt almost immediately, since it was able to bring in hard currency by selling its oil abroad.

As the strict regime eased its rules, the Union of Czechoslovak Writers cautiously began to air discontent, and in the union's gazette, Literární noviny, members suggested that literature should be independent of Party doctrine.

Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 showed deep social discontent about slavery and its role in the plantation economy.

The partition of territories in the Balkans by the Great Powers without regard to ethnic composition led to a wave of discontent not only in Bulgaria, but also in its neighbouring countries.

They were described by Jean Hartley, the ex-wife of Larkin's publisher George Hartley ( The Marvell Press ), as a " piquant mixture of lyricism and discontent ", though anthologist Keith Tuma writes that there is more to Larkin's work than its reputation for dour pessimism suggests.

" It has to do its best to suit all three, thus is constantly feeling hemmed by the danger of causing discontent on two other sides.

An important stratagem in Christian right anti-gay politics is in its rejection of " the edicts of a Big Brother " state, allowing it to profit from " a general feeling of discontent and demoralization with government ".

The particular object of their discontent was Sinn Féin's ending of its policy of abstentionism in the Republic of Ireland.

Thus, the Indian Government's implicit defining of its Sikh citizens as being part of the Hindu community created discontent among Sikhs.

" Rising concern about the " environmental crisis " is sweeping the nation's campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam ... a national day of observance of environmental problems, analogous to the mass demonstrations on Vietnam, is being planned for next spring, when a nationwide environmental ' teach-in '... coordinated from the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned ...."

At a time of globalisation, this is a tremendous strength, and with unemployment at its lowest level for almost 30 years further immigration is unlikely to provoke much discontent.

The primary motivations included discontent with the British rule: its Anglicisation policies, restrictive laws on slavery and its eventual abolition, arrangements to compensate former slave owners, and the perceived indifference of British authorities to border conflicts along the Cape Colony's eastern frontier.

The episode highlights the discontent within the Marine Corps over the decision, most notably amongst its officers.

teaches that the 7th Trumpet in the book of the Revelation began to sound around the year 1980 when Daniel Layne was saved, alleging that there was a general discontent among many of its current adherents that were in various Churches of God at that time.

The revolt, which ironically took place during the Corpus Christi week, focused on the college as centre of discontent due to its rigid collection of " candle rents ".

According to prominent Latin American historian Benjamin Keen, the task of transforming society " fell to the rapidly growing urban bourgeois groups, and especially to the middle class, which began to voice even more strongly its discontent with the rule of the corrupt rural oligarchies ".

It is distinguished by being discontent with society in general and its rejection of the disapproval of the gay, bisexual, and lesbian communities.

At the end of 2005, KASKOL sold its stake in the airline, due to its discontent with the company's management's strategy.

Amidst the rising discontent in East Bengal, Jinnah visited Dhaka and announced that Urdu would be sole state language of Pakistan given its significance to Islamic nationalism in South Asia.

In the 17th century, Sir Isaac Newton, examining the current chronology of Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East, expressed discontent with prevailing theories and proposed one of his own, which, basing its study on Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, changed the traditional dating of the Argonautic Expedition, the Trojan War, and the Founding of Rome.

It is possible that the usurpation can be attributed to the discontent of the civilian and military provincials, when they felt that the defense of the province was neglected.

Widespread discontent in Haiti began in 1983, when Pope John Paul II condemned the regime during a visit, finally provoking a rebellion, and in February 1986, after months of disorder, the army forced Duvalier to resign and go into exile.

He caused further discontent when he himself married the Vestal Virgin Aquilia Severa, claiming the marriage would produce " god-like children ".

The INC was out of power between 1977 and 1980, when the Janata Party won the election due to public discontent with the corruption ( promulgation of Emergency with stringent forces ) of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

This rule was interrupted between 1977 to 1980, when the Janata Party coalition won the election owing to public discontent with the controversial state of emergency declared by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Ashikaga Takauji turned against the Emperor when the discontent about the distribution of land grew great enough.

The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, but they eventually moved down to the United States when David Duchovny had been unhappy with his geographical separation from his wife Téa Leoni, although his discontent was popularly attributed to frustration with climatic conditions in Vancouver.

( Note that when DAW published his first book he was able to obtain the " Superstar " imprint for it, resulting in other authors-many who had more than one Hugo-requesting the same and a great deal of discontent ).

In 1256 – 57, when the discontent of all classes was coming to a head, de Montfort nominally adhered to the royal cause.

[...] What will be your Lordships astonishment when I tell you that an act passed for the express purpose of gratifying the Canadians & which was supposed to comprehend all that they either wished or wanted is become the first object of their discontent & dislike.

Local discontent was exacerbated by poor harvests and famine caused by bad weather and a locust plage in 1035, and when Michael tried to exercise a measure of control over Aleppo, the local citizens drove off the imperial governor.

O ’ Donnell ’ s discontent stemmed partly from Watsons ’ description of a happy child, including that the child only cry when in physical pain, can occupy himself through his problem-solving abilities, and that the child stray from asking questions.

Comparable discontent manifested itself in the seventeenth century when a number of Wymondham citizens, including Thomas Lincoln, John Beal and others emigrated to Hingham, Norfolk in the wave of religious dissent that swept England in the years preceding Cromwell's Commonwealth.

Widespread discontent began in March 1983, when Pope John Paul II visited Haiti.

However, when James attempted to reform the national religion, popular discontent against him and his government became widespread.

There was discontent among the merchants of Norwich at the cost of trans-shipment, and allegations of systematic theft of cargo, which resulted in a court case in 1820, when 18 men were convicted of taking the goods and another of receiving it.

Hitler and Ley were aware that the suppression of the trade unions and the prevention of wage increases by the Trustees of Labour system, when coupled with their relentless demands for increased productivity to hasten German rearmament, created a real risk of working-class discontent.

His appointment in 1782 to the treasurership of the navy, which carried a pension of £ 3200 a year at a time when the government was ostensibly advocating stringency, caused great discontent ; subsequently, however, he received from the younger Pitt the clerkship of the pells, a sinecure for life in place of the pension, which thus was saved to the public.

The high-handed rule of the Douglases created general discontent, and when their treason became apparent their territory was overrun by the king's men in 1455 ; Douglas was attainted, and his honours and estates were forfeited.

The waves of discontent crested in October 1988 when a series of strikes and walkouts by students and workers in Algiers degenerated into rioting by thousands of young men, who destroyed government and FLN property.

Captain Lakshmi was arrested by the British army in May 1945, remaining in Burma until March 1946, when she was sent to India – at a time when the INA trials in Delhi heightened popular discontent with and hastened the end of colonial rule.