(1) It has brought waves of Australian diplomats and functionaries implementing strategies to douse local disgruntlement at the profound social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts their operation has brought.
(2) Meanwhile, Chelsea fans' disgruntlement grows: "I know Rafa said no more transfers in January but we still need a midfielder and I don't think Roman or Emenalo share their thoughts with Rafa," blubs Mihir Khatwani.
(3) Samsung has announced a new Galaxy Alpha smartphone with a metal body, signalling that it has recognised consumer disgruntlement with flimsy plastic phone parts.
(4) Kuwait • A decree issued by Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al Sabah, that changes voting rules, thereby weakening the opposition, has stirred signs of the Arab Spring in the oil-rich nation , Ian Black writes: The opposition is a coalition of youth groups, disgruntled tribes and Islamists.
(5) And for a second I fantasised that if enough disgruntled Liberal Democrats switched to Labour and a protest bandwagon began to roll, then maybe we could actually win it.
(6) Leaders who are particularly nervy end up rearranging the Whitehall furniture to try to keep everyone happy – removing energy from trade and industry, or science from education, to create new fiefdoms; or adding such responsibilities back in to try to convince ministers disgruntled at not being shuffled up that they are instead being promoted through the expansion of their empire.
(7) He described the tight control of the event as “The Mrs Duffy effect”, a reference to Gordon Brown’s unscripted encounter with a disgruntled member of the public during the 2010 election .
(8) And while Knowles has tried to suggest that those who are disgruntled are transient outsiders with few links to the city, that ignores the anger that has been fermenting among many of Ferguson's long-term black residents.
(9) The service amounts to the organisation and management of a comprehensive system for on-demand urban transport.” A wave of recent executive departures has piled more pressure on Uber , following allegations of sexual harassment and the emergence of video of an abuse-filled row between its chief executive, Travis Kalanick, and one of the company’s disgruntled drivers.
(10) Sir Martin Sorrell is expected to receive a bloody nose from disgruntled shareholders on Wednesday with more than half set to vote against his £6.8m pay packet at WPP's annual general meeting in Dublin.
(11) Because while many disgruntled Americans are still attracted to the Trump anti-establishment, anti-Washington, anti-big government rhetoric there are only a few who want to risk a manchild in the White House.
(12) The awkwardly named The Truth About OM Property Management (formerly Solitaire Property Management) & Peverel Group Companies, was set up in 2008 by a disgruntled Solitaire customer When he spoke to Guardian Money it was on the basis that we only publish his first name: Adam.
(13) Those remaining, say disgruntled former officials in Budapest, have been asked to detail the timings and contents of past contacts with US diplomats.
(14) "The Taliban are taking advantage of disgruntled Afghans who have been recruited in large numbers – many of them far too quickly.
(15) He said the BBC would scrap so-called gagging clauses in staff contracts to make it easier for disgruntled employees to air their concerns.
(16) Mankell is on a tour to promote his final Wallander novel - Stranger in the Shadows, in the German edition; The Troubled Man in the UK edition - which the disgruntled police commissar, who is suffering from the onset of Alzheimer's, sets out to solve a Cold War era crime.
(17) That does not prevent some supporters clamouring for the former Everton, Manchester United and Real Sociedad manager’s dismissal but Moyes is determined not to be distracted by this disgruntled, dissenting soundtrack.
(18) We had to show a strong will and strong care and the satisfaction is immense,” said Martínez, whose joy no doubt reflected the pressure amid growing fan disgruntlement with his management.
(19) Here's Sarah de la Motte to represent the 10 or so disgruntled ones who have been in contact: "Trying to enjoy a relaxing holiday afternoon by the pool here in Washington, DC, but can't take my eyes off my phone!
(20) To the extent that there’s disgruntlement here, it’s without a cause.
Grunt
Definition:
(v. t.) To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
(n.) A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
(n.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite repeated attempts to contact it from the ground, Phobos-Grunt remained stuck in orbit and the Russian authorities decided to abandon the mission.
(2) I seesaw-grunted out of bed at 8.30am and had a bird bath, soaping mainly the naughty bits, for I was in a hurry that Wednesday: it was the day I filed my Observer TV review.
(3) Three of the four sows showed a characteristic increase in rate of grunting about 20 to 25 sec before fast sucking began.
(4) Grunting usually ceased within 15 minutes of the start of C.P.A.P., and there was also on average a 30 percent increase in the respiratory-rate.
(5) he grunts - reliving the moment when, in his first fight with Ali at Madison Square Garden in 1971, he knocked down his then unbeaten opponent to clinch a momentous victory.
(6) Wild Words of Sport (@WWofSport) @Simon_Burnton Nadal, with his caveman grunting, his undie-picking, is a visceral beast.
(7) Territorial males produce grunts, moans and growls during courtship.
(8) Spall's performance has been much celebrated for its emotional depth, despite Turner's vocabulary in the film often consisting of grunts, snorts and spitting saliva onto the canvas.
(9) Specific, highly predictive (though less common) signs included moderate to severe chest wall recession, respiratory grunt, cold calves, and a tender abdomen.
(10) When the newborn is no longer capable of the excess extra work required for grunting, the decompensated phase of IRDS sets in.
(11) After all, two Phobos probes had failed in 1988, plans to launch Phobos-Grunt in 2009 were abandoned very late in the day and Russia has not launched its own planetary mission since 1996 when Mars-96 burnt up over the Pacific and South America after a rocket failure.
(12) Insiders played down the significance of the move, saying that Entwistle had wanted somebody to help him with the "grunt work" of examining the BBC's internal data, leaving him free for face-to face-meetings.
(13) This suggests that the change in grunting is one but not the only cue used by the piglets to time their suckling behavior.
(14) We do not know precisely the postconceptual age at which the newborn is sufficiently developed to adopt these various defensive strategies of breathing, but the presence of tachypnea and grunting in 28-week-old premature infants suggests that long before term the human infant is capable of remarkable variation in the defense of breathing.
(15) When they left, [when] both police officers and Ms Dhu went out to the waiting room, I said to the police officer that, ‘this could be withdrawal from drugs’.” She said Ms Dhu was moaning and grunting, but considered those noises to be “voluntary” and more a signal of emotional distress than pain.
(16) This is a genuine and unexpected pleasure; getting more than a grunt from Arran is usually a task akin to ... well, getting a teenage boy to have a conversation.
(17) Somehow, though, this Carry On, if slightly punchy, seaside resort is as rock-solidly English as a jaw-jutting bloke in a pub who might just grunt "You looking at my caravan?"
(18) Hitching a ride on the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is China's first interplanetary probe, the tiny 115kg Yinghuo-1 , which is due to work alongside Phobos-Grunt to study the Martian atmosphere.
(19) Ahead, a stripy piglet trots faster, swerves and gallops up the bank towards its mother’s summoning grunts.
(20) In the first case we are dealing with an eight year old boy who made grunting noises.