Some companies have acknowledged these past grievances but say they changed after Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999.

For some, the latest attempt to redress past grievances only recalls other, cruder attempts to correct history's crimes.

Wolthanth had neatly turned aside his past grievances and focused instead on the present.

Elsie, thus appealed to, suddenly recalled a past grievance.

Let us not maunder and gloom over past grievances!

You're filled with rage over past grievances.

"There has been a tendency among women, perhaps because of past grievances, to vote for women."

Though negligible in strategic value, the islands are a powerful symbol of past unresolved grievances.

I really wasn't much in the mood to listen to Beverly unload past grievances.

They may be playing out grudges against doctors or hospitals, quite possibly for some genuine past grievance.