personal grievance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpersonalandgrievance
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personal
adjective
uk/ˈpɜː.sən.əl/us/ˈpɝː.sən.əl/
relating or belonging to a single or particular person rather than to a group or ...
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grievance
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɡriː.vəns/us/ˈɡriː.vəns/
a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been ...
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(Definition ofpersonalandgrievancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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My suggestions are not therefore put forward as the result of apersonalgrievancebut in an endeavour to seek a workable solution to a very tricky problem.
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While invariably speaking out in the name of disadvantaged commoners, the man of words is actually motivated by a deeppersonalgrievance.
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Before 1688, petitions tended to be about personal grievances, whereas after they tended to be about matters of public policy.
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He said that personal grievances should be remedied here.
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This is not apersonalgrievanceof mine.
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For we all know that a smallpersonalgrievanceis very often exaggerated and used as a lever for quite different ends.
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I speak here with a definitepersonalgrievance.
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I have nopersonalgrievancemyself, as the list of speakers will show.
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I do not want any parliamentary colleague to feel a sense ofpersonalgrievance.
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I am not going to make a song and dance about that, or feel anypersonalgrievanceabout it.
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There is not a cook in the country who would set out to starve children in order to enforce some privatepersonalgrievance.
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Was it the satisfaction of somepersonalgrievancewithin the dockyard?
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There, so far as manipulative grades are concerned, a man with apersonalgrievancemay approach his superior officers and trade union organisation.
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It may be apersonalgrievance, but there is nevertheless reason to state it.
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There is no sense ofpersonalgrievanceabout this.
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But they are suffering from apersonalgrievancefrom which he was not suffering.
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This is not only a general grievance; it is apersonalgrievance.
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Conditions could be set out—such as if the service has caused apersonalgrievanceor a grievance to family or property.
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I have a verypersonalgrievanceabout this, because earlier this year my husband had a nervous breakdown, and he is still on anti-depressant tablets.
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