This growing prosperity helped minimise political discontent.

The early 1990s were marked by the Astros ' growing discontent with their home, the Astrodome.

After about three decades of growing discontent, the Prussian leaders ( see Prussian estates ) organized themselves to oppose the rule of the order more effectively.

Still, those measures could not hide shortages and increasing inflation, and reports of growing discontent multiplied.

Those who are able to read the history in the light of what occurred later may perhaps be convinced that no policy whatever initiated, after 1766 could have prevented or even materially delayed the United States Declaration of Independence ; but to the politicians of that time the coming event had not yet cast so dark a shadow before as to paralyse all action, and if any man could have allayed the growing discontent of the colonists and prevented the ultimate dismemberment of the empire, it would have been Lord Chatham.

Amid growing discontent with Thompson's leadership, particularly in the area of cleaning up Chicago's reputation as the capital of organized crime, he was defeated in 1931 by Democrat Anton Cermak.

The procession was a result of the growing discontent at the contemporary direction of the Church and the inequality between the peasants and the Church's prelates, and the nobility.

The successful trial of Odo de Bayeux at Penenden Heath less than a decade after the conquest was one example of the growing discontent at the Norman land-grab that had occurred in the years following the invasion.

Succeeding Louis XV, his unpopular grandfather, Louis XVI was well aware of the growing discontent of the French population against the absolute monarchy.

Sensing the growing discontent, Louis XVI banned the use of the breaking wheel.

Despite growing discontent with the National Convention as a ruling body, in June the Convention drafted the Constitution of 1793, which was ratified by popular vote in early August.

The Bentuhua or localization / indigenization movement was sparked in the mid-1970s with the growing expression of ethnic discontent due to unequal distribution of political and cultural power between mainlanders and Taiwanese people.

Due to the growing discontent, the government tried conciliation.

A sign of growing discontent was a large wall poster erected in Canton at the end of 1974 which complained that China had no rule of law and officials were not accountable for their mistakes.

* Reflecting the growing level of discontent with his tyrannical conduct, Dion is assassinated by Callippus, an Athenian who has accompanied him on his expedition to take over as tyrant of Syracuse.

Amid growing discontent from the Algerian population, the Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ) acknowledged some demands, and the Popular Front initiated the Blum-Viollette proposal in 1936 which was supposed to enlighten the Indigenous Code by giving French citizenship to a small number of Muslims.

Although the Red Army, commanded by Trotsky, crossed the ice over the frozen Baltic Sea to quickly crush the rebellion, this sign of growing discontent forced the party to foster a broad alliance of the working class and peasantry ( 80 % of the population ), despite left factions of the party which favored a regime solely representative of the interests of the revolutionary proletariat.

The improvement of the economy had a disparate impact in different social sectors and discontent started growing within the low classes.

President K. R. Narayanan's address to the nation on the golden jubilee of the Indian Republic ( 26 January 2000 ) is considered a landmark: it was the first time a President attempted to analyse, with due concern for growing disparities, the several ways in which the country had failed to provide economic justice to the Indian people, particularly the rural and agrarian population ; he also stated that discontent was breeding and frustrations erupting in violence among the deprived sections of society.

Faced with growing discontent, Santa Anna resigned in 1855 and Juárez returned to Mexico.

As the recognized heir to the throne, his position on his return to Sweden was dangerous because of the growing discontent with the queen. A council of war, which met at two o ’ clock in the morning to consider the practicability of Dahlberg's proposal, dismissed it as hazardous.

Although Decius managed to quell the revolt, discontent in the legions was growing.

In the ensuing years, however, postwar problems of inflation and instability severely hampered readjustment for returning veterans, who were in the forefront of growing discontent and unrest.

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.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

For that legend was growing explosively, Rumor was insisting he received a price of $600 a man.

Over and above that, however, was his growing suspicion of Chuck Stober's part in recent events.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

In and in and in they poured through the gates of Majdanek, but they never left, and Majdanek was not growing any larger.

He was conscious of a growing sense of absurdity.

Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.

set production ( excluding those destined for the export market ) also ran ahead in the early months, but was curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the face of growing evidence that some of the early production plans had been overly optimistic.

With greater investments in plant facilities, with automation growing, you can't switch around, either in volume or in product design, as much as was formerly possible -- or at least not as economically.

It is very unlikely that either of these anacondas was growing at a normal rate.

First, and most obvious, was the growing nationalism and the tendency to regard the state, and the individual's identification with the state, as transcending other ties of social solidarity.

Codification was followed in all countries by a growing amount of legislation, some changing and adjusting the older law, much dealing with entirely new situations.

It was because of this chain-reaction as much as for any other reason -- that is, because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape -- that the identity of depicted objects, or at least parts of them, re-emerged in Braque's and Picasso's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there -- but only as flattened silhouettes -- than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913.

It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari.

Although she appeared more subdued and defeated, Jones knew she was growing more dangerous.

It was observed in the introductory chapter that metropolitan life had split into two trends -- expanding interdependence on an impersonal basis and growing exclusiveness in local communal groupings.

Alec was growing more and more skeptical.

Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and then older and then still older, in short, whether Adam's life was intended to be part of the process of time.

A suspicion was growing that Fidel Castro was a Communist.

Negro population in the U.S. has increased 25 per cent while the white population was growing by 18 per cent.

It was so pretty and artless that she felt like a child again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot to play on the wet grass with all the growing things, but Doaty never permitted bare feet and she was decidedly not a child but une femme d'un certain age.