1.   He also became adept at exploiting a variety of popular discontents.

2.   Often, conservative ex-communists, impatient radicals or politicians seeking to capitalize on popular discontent can give presidents a hard ride.

3.   They focused popular discontent over the double-standard and the complicity of aristocratic men in child prostitution.

4.   This also produced popular discontent directed against the bishops.

5.   A great upsurge of popular discontent and nationalism led to the formation of a government headed by Mohammad Mussadeq.

6.   And domestic popular discontent and external political isolation, Washington hoped, would bring the clerical leadership to its senses.

7.   And there are signs that despite pervasive repression, popular discontent is increasingly open.

8.   As long as there were more motorbikes in the villages and more cars in the cities, popular discontent was rarely more than an irritant to the President.

9.   By closing the airwaves to the opposition, he is taking the risk that popular discontent may boil over.