How To Use Disaffection In A Sentence

  • The government's response to popular disaffection has been simply to increase security.
  • It is at the root of the disaffection between the mass of the people and their governments.
  • Such negativity intensified the ‘disillusion and disaffection of a large part of the electorate,’ he said.
  • This social unrest was compounded by the evangelical revival, which although it later became a conservative force that protected Britain from radical political change, was at this point profoundly disturbing as it uncovered and stimulated disaffection from the Established Church. _The Sceptic_: A Poem For Its Time?
  • However, disaffection over this issue was dwarfed by a scandal which emerged in the 1990's.
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  • One nationalist observer noted that Judge Jones ‘has given great disaffection… [and] has brought down severe animadversion on himself.’
  • honeycombed" with disaffection with respect to the same issues that a trade union could have addressed. Undefined
  • The fact that the government itself now appears to have endorsed this view is unlikely to challenge public disaffection from the political process.
  • This disaffection is partly due to the video invasion, or to the bureaucratization of channels who’ve become less and less creative, but that’s not the main thing. Ballardian » ‘Le passé composé de J. G. Ballard’: JGB on Empire of the Sun
  • The government's response to popular disaffection has been simply to increase security.
  • But while it may not breach broadcasting regulations, it may breach the law against sedition, as it incites disaffection against the crown.
  • Bentham scorned the French Revolution and the very idea of “rights,” but he shared its disaffection with the old social order and advanced his own equali - tarian doctrine with his principle that, in planning reform on utilitarian lines, each should count for one and none for more than one. EQUALITY
  • The entire kitchen sink has been thrown in, and for this and other reasons departments of English have generally become cesspools of diffusion, disaffection, and resentment.
  • Populace's disaffection, directly relates the society the harmony and the stability.
  • The autotelic text is a game of symbols, an artifice of ironic detachment, ludic or cynical, embodying an intellectual delight in the game for its own sake or an emotional disaffection in the absence of certainty. Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism)
  • What crossgrained fiend has at once inspired you with what I suppose you wish me to call politic doubts and scruples of conscience, but which I can only regard as symptoms of fear and disaffection? Saint Ronan's Well
  • These consequences of unprecedented growth in population undoubtedly played a part in the general malaise out of which disaffection grew.
  • the widespread disaffection of the troops
  • I being in such a position in the colony, and considering the fact that Madam Cavendish and Catherine were staunch loyalists, and would have sent all their tobacco to the bottom of the salt sea had the king so ordained, and regarded all disaffection from the royal will as a deadly sin against God and the Church, as well as the throne, and knowing the danger which Mary Cavendish ran, I was in a sore quandary. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
  • It is, rather, the latest stage of a nagging public disaffection with the EU as a political, economic and social project.
  • The stress of the early performances is replaced by a semipermanent state of crabby disaffection. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then, disappointment and disaffection characterised the response of many.
  • There was religious dissension in the holy city of Qom and disaffection in many of the tribal areas.
  • The disaffection has blossomed into outright hostility to the euro.
  • The nearby army camp, which fell on Friday, was a hotbed of disaffection in mutinies in 1996 and 1997.
  • Their three outstanding attitudes - obliviousness to the growing disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement, illusion of invulnerable status - are persistent aspects of folly.
  • The recent European elections revealed a deep disaffection with mainstream politics.
  • Angry populists like Pat Buchanan will exploit the disaffection of those left behind.
  • Punk used to be about spiky hair and even spikier disaffection. Times, Sunday Times
  • If government politicians do not listen to them, and ignore their concerns, political disaffection is likely.
  • It has even been stated that the word disaffection was uttered during this secret conference by the sincere and truthful lips of M. de Saint-Aignan. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • You may well have a point about Lib Dem voters staying away, but what neither you nor anyone else can prove is whether it was a one-off punishment or a sign of a long-term disaffection. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Or are they reflecting growing disaffection among scientists with recent changes in their profession?
  • Herein lies the underlying cause of so much disaffection. Times, Sunday Times
  • Is it a s ign of wider disaffection within your regime? Questions for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • And till that Spirit is given us, there is nothing but enmity and disaffection towards God; there is nothing but feebleness and impotence, as to any thing that is good; there is nothing but distemperature and diseasedness in man, which have pierced him to the very heart. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
  • There are signs of growing disaffection amongst voters.
  • The gravity of the economic situation meant that the appeasement of sectarianism was not sufficient to deal with the threat of working-class disaffection.
  • The racial dimensions of that alienation and disaffection are especially troubling.
  • In Britain, Churchill and Milner were the main advocates of this, but Lloyd George, fearing disaffection among war-weary troops and workers, was opposed.
  • However, the benefits of the QPRIME system into the future far outweigh short-term disaffection by some officers," the spokesperson said. Australian Politics
  • Today's peg is a report on the breakdown of family life, specifically disaffection among teenagers, and how the "media class" just doesn't get it. Current Affairs
  • Part of the disaffection with the local Labour campaign also seems to stem from a feeling in some quarters, reported to this website, that it was ‘intimidatory’.
  • This time, the elections have shown the deep disaffection of many citizens throughout the Union. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unless you do this, you will continue disability discrimination and disaffection for current and future generations of our children.
  • But there are many signs of public disaffection with the two-party system.
  • The images are intended to convey alienation and disaffection and succeed in doing that, but not much more.
  • Armstrong takes his protest an intriguing step forward with this album by creating a rock opera informed by disaffection and disillusionment.
  • But sunshine and grapevines have done nothing to ease his disaffection.
  • Indeed, disaffection and rebellion in Ireland convinced ministers of the necessity of parliamentary union.
  • Case in point: Openly anxious about grass-roots disaffection from the Republican Party, conservative Christian organizers are reaching for ways to turn out voters this November, including arguing that recognizing same-sex marriage could also limit religious freedom. September 2006
  • The new journal grew out of the general disaffection that had been floating around the discipline for years.
  • The 'happy family' pictures could challenge the claims depicting her as the disaffectionate surrogate and rattle reports that she never even visited the children. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • The abstention rate reflects the deep level of political disaffection and alienation felt by wide layers of the population.
  • That sense of malaise found its way into Kafka's unfinished novel Amerika, in which, says Schultze, he enlarges that feeling of disaffection and ‘brings it into the macrocosm.’
  • These include civic education and class discussion hours meant to solve the problem of disaffection and violence, aimed at impressing the public and confusing education staff with a flurry of charters and diktats.
  • But disaffection over the city's infrastructure is not confined to the technology companies.
  • The studied indifference of the federal government increased disaffection among civil rights workers. Black activists especially became increasingly alienated.
  • There is a high level of disaffection and boredom with an approach to learning which deletes joy, creativity and engagement from the process.
  • Henry McLeish also promised to address the deep disaffection among Labour backbenchers exposed by his snap election last weekend.
  • As the British people are made ever more aware of the impotence of our Parliament and Government to produce solutions appropriate to them (and desired by them) rather than to the goat farmers of Cyprus, because of the extent to which it has handed power over, lock, stock and barrel to the EU, then will come a time of growing disaffection from the European racket. Legitimacy Is The Treaty's Achilles Heel
  • The nearby army camp, which fell on Friday, was a hotbed of disaffection in mutinies in 1996 and 1997.
  • The project was fraught with extreme risk, but General Gatacre, though fully aware that he was without the necessary reinforcements to make good a continuous advance, resolved to accept the hazard for the sake of the chance of success, and for the sake of the moral effect such success might make in a district weevilled with disaffection. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
  • The studied indifference of the federal government increased disaffection among civil rights workers. Black activists especially became increasingly alienated.
  • Beyond those, they cite the high costs of customer disaffection, which drives down both profit margins and market share.
  • There was religious dissension in the holy city of Qom and disaffection in many of the tribal areas.

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