grievances

On 19 May 1789, Louis XVI convened the Estates-General to hear their grievances.

Do you measure its relation to reduced absenteeism, turnover, accidents, and grievances, and to improved quality and output??

The elite had a number of grievances against Estimé.

Motives vary from demanding the release of certain inmates ( notably IC-814 ) to highlighting the grievances of a particular community ( notably AF 8969 ).

So instead of being tests of the South's loyalty, the Spanish War, the two World Wars, and the Korean War all served to overcome old grievances and cement reunion.

Their grievances were against the two main Northern Territory employers: Vestey ’ s Meatworks and the federal government.

Camp workers in BC struck on April 4, 1935, and, after two months of protesting in Vancouver, began the On-to-Ottawa Trek to bring their grievances to Bennett's doorstep.

At the request of the Corinthians, the Spartans summoned members of the Peloponnesian League to Sparta in 432 BC, especially those who had grievances with Athens to make their complaints to the Spartan assembly.

However, some have criticized these methods as taking away the right to seek redress of grievances in the courts, suggesting that extrajudicial dispute resolution may not offer the fairest way for parties not in an equal bargaining relationship, for example in a dispute between a consumer and a large corporation.

Due to the rapid pace of change, by the late 1980s, grievances over inflation, limited career prospects for students, and corruption of the party elite were growing rapidly.

They were brutally suppressed and the British government took control of the Company and eliminated many of the grievances that caused it.

In response to grievances by workers, Bongo negotiated with them on a sector-by-sector basis, making significant wage concessions.

Westminster City Council has received more complaints per head of population than any other district in the UK with 9, 814 grievances about noise, which equates to 42. 32 complaints per thousand residents.

" To lead delegates, " Books of grievances " ( cahiers de doléances ) were compiled to list problems.

Past grievances are usually involved and can cause revanchism.

Young Czechs would write grievances on the wall and in a report of the time this led to a clash between hundreds of students and security police on the nearby Charles Bridge.

The chief grievances which Kapp and his followers had against the government were ( a ) that the national assembly, which had been elected to serve temporarily, was beginning to act as a permanent Reichstag ; ( b ) that it seemed this assembly might revise the constitution with respect to the election of the President of the Republic so that the Reichstag, rather than the electorate of the country, was responsible for the President's election.

* there will always be grounds for protest in modern, politically pluralistic societies because there is constant discontent ( i. e., grievances or deprivation ); this de-emphasizes the importance of these factors as it makes them ubiquitous

One of his grievances was that he had to exchange his stylish Paris suit for a stiff uniform and pigtail.

It offered general freedom of conscience to individuals and many specific concessions to the Protestants, such as amnesty and the reinstatement of their civil rights, including the right to work in any field or for the State and to bring grievances directly to the king.

He argued that they were a direct violation of the First Amendment right " to petition the Government for a redress of grievances ".

These grievances would be taken up by a small guerrilla band led by a man called only “ Subcomandante Marcos .”

; Principle of redress: The Crown accepts a responsibility to provide a process for the resolution of grievances arising from the Treaty.

Confident that the Boers would be quickly defeated, they planned and organised a short war, citing the uitlanders ' grievances as the motivation for the conflict.

The term " democracy " is sometimes used as shorthand for liberal democracy, which is a variant of representative democracy that may include elements such as political pluralism ; equality before the law ; the right to petition elected officials for redress of grievances ; due process ; civil liberties ; human rights ; and elements of civil society outside the government.