(v. t.) A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.
(v. t.) Grieving; grief; affliction.
Example Sentences:
(1) ‘A candidate of grievances’ But the increase in populist unrest within the Republican base isn’t the only reason for Trump’s rise.
(2) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
(3) On the Iranian side, the list of grievances against the US includes American support of Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war, and the shooting down of an Iranian civilian airliner with the loss of almost 300 lives.
(4) As always he sounded as if he believed every single word but, despite rightful grievances about the latest incident, if his team are suffering from a reputation, then a good part of that, undeniably, is of their own making.
(5) What it did was just give the nationalists a whole grievance agenda from a minute after the result was declared,” Alexander recalled.
(6) Baghdad and Erbil have an endless list of grievances, ranging from border controls and the integration of the peshmerga to the Iraqi national army, to the delimitation of Kurdistan and the sharing of wealth between the centre and the autonomous region – especially oil.
(7) Her companion, a man in his fifties, also refused to give his name to the “Lugen Presse” (liar press, a term coined by the Nazis and frequently chanted at Pegida events), but is quick to add: “We’ve nothing against helping foreigners in need, like those poor people in Syria, but we should be helping them in their own country, not bringing them over here.” The demonstrations feel like an invitation for anyone to voice any grievance.
(8) The fact that hospitals have been able to reject or ignore certain grievances has added to concerns about the NHS complaints system.
(9) While specific data providing direct comparisons of numbers of lawsuits between private and public psychiatrists are not available, a review of the existing literature supports this hypothesis, particularly with respect to grievances.
(10) Cho Seung-hui was revealed to be a troubled loner of South Korean descent who left behind a disturbing note of grievances against his university saying: "You caused me to do this."
(11) It was thought that that would definitely lead to a profound sense of grievance and injustice which the SNP would continue to exploit,” he explained.
(12) Rioters revealed that a complex mix of grievances brought them on to the streets but analysts appointed by the LSE identified distrust and antipathy toward police as a key driving force.
(13) Which brings us to the subject of money – another Gamergate grievance.
(14) The past year has seen a shift in agenda from the grievances of the local Bedouin population to a more international focus and an expansion of the recruiting base.
(15) The list of demands, relayed to Qatar via mediators from Kuwait, represents the first time Saudi Arabia has been prepared to put the bloc’s previously amorphous grievances in writing.
(16) Clinton’s involvement in the Iran debate subtly positions the Democratic frontrunner as an Iran hawk who is less hopeful of the diplomatic bargain ending US grievances with Tehran than she is cautious about Washington fracturing a diplomatic coalition needed to enforce punitive measures on Iran.
(17) TV always seemed to come before performing music,” is a recurrent grievance, and even after he’d won, his first thought the following morning when the alarm clock went off at dawn was: “I wasn’t happy.
(18) The author knew he intended to go public with his grievances against the newspaper.
(19) They are entitled to have grievances about Nemanja Vidic's late red card, when a booking would have been sufficient for his scything challenge on Eden Hazard, but they were also extremely fortunate Rafael da Silva did not follow him in stoppage time for his two-footed tackle on Gary Cahill.
(20) This gap will not be bridged quickly but the state has a moral duty to acknowledge the deep and genuine grievances of the last 40 years and initiate the policies and actions that will lead to a better future.
Hindrance
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.
(v. t.) That which hinders; an impediment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The increased hindrance to diffusion of the probing molecules caused by the added solutes is considered as good evidence that the probing molecules diffuse by way of pores filled with water.6.
(2) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
(3) The relative reactivities of three o-substituted phenols can be explained in terms of steric hindrance which is minimal for a single o-substituent.
(4) The lower affinity of C8-substituted 7-methyl-1,3-dipropylxanthines can be explained quantitatively with steric hindrance, which C8-substituents experience from the 7-methyl group in these conformations.
(5) A comparison of the antioxidant activities of eight 1,4-naphthoquinones indicated that methyl substitution of C-2, lack of steric hindrance at C-3 or C-5, and (in the case of weak acids) a relatively high pKa are favorable structural features associated with strong antioxidant activity.
(6) However, no steric hindrance can be seen between subunits when the subunits in carbonmonoxy Hb are substituted with the corresponding subunits in deoxy Hb.
(7) This suggests that the one-carbon binding site can accomodate two one-carbon groups simultaneously without serious steric hindrance.
(8) Inter-molecular spread of the conformational change among the molecules of PVX protein was demonstrated in DAS-ELISA, when capture mAb inhibited binding of detecting mAb in the absence of steric hindrance.
(9) 46% of the fatal accidents were caused by crashing against hindrances.
(10) Partial hindrance was observed for the third antibody mAb delta 22.
(11) Intraocular horseradish peroxidase (HRP) accumulated in severed optic axons but was transported with no obvious hindrance in spared axons alongside the lesion.
(12) The molecular areas at which the phase transition occurs under the various experimental conditions, together with a parallel analysis of the hydration states and related molecular areas of the DPPC molecules in multilayers, strongly suggest that the steric hindrance associated with the hydration water of the polar head of DPPC molecules in the monolayer is responsible for the drastic decrease in diffusion coefficient in the liquid-condensed phase.
(13) The spondylodiscites were no hindrance for dorsal lordosing osteotomies and can be treated successfully by means of this static correction and the immobilisation.
(14) At the experiments with the isolated rat hearts, prepared by Langendorff, the anti-arrhythmic dose-effects of the water-soluble antioxidant fenozan from the class of steric-hindrance phenols were studied at condition of regional ischemia and reperfusion, as well as its action on the coronary flow.
(15) Taken together, these results suggest that tonin bound to alpha 1-macroglobulin keeps the active site intact and that inhibition of the enzyme activity is due to a steric hindrance.
(16) Because these inhibitors bind preferentially at the extracellular surface of the transporter, their effects must result from a conformational change rather than from steric hindrance.
(17) We propose that incA, in addition to sequestration, can also restrain replication by causing steric hindrance to the origin function.
(18) Vascular hindrance in muscle, but not hindlimb, was less during nerve stimulation in anemia than at normal Hct.
(19) Intense steric hindrance by introducing an enormously bulky group or complete elimination of the 17 beta-hydroxy group rather decreased the anti-androgenic activity.
(20) Their expertise led to this mess, and would be a hindrance, not a help, in cleaning it up.