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  • He could easily let it leak out that he is unhappy about the lack of investment in the squad (which he surely must be, given City's advancement and Chelsea's much more powerful squad), but he knows that kind of dissaffection can be detrimental to the whole club from the top down - just look at my club Liverpool.

    The Guardian World News Sachin Nakrani 2010

  • He could easily let it leak out that he is unhappy about the lack of investment in the squad (which he surely must be, given City's advancement and Chelsea's much more powerful squad), but he knows that kind of dissaffection can be detrimental to the whole club from the top down - just look at my club Liverpool.

    The Guardian World News Owen Gibson 2010

  • He could easily let it leak out that he is unhappy about the lack of investment in the squad (which he surely must be, given City's advancement and Chelsea's much more powerful squad), but he knows that kind of dissaffection can be detrimental to the whole club from the top down - just look at my club Liverpool.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • And of course the lobbyists will force many promises to be abandoned, possibly causing great dissaffection among the "Tea Party", at least among the rank-and-file.

    The Tea Party rules Washington as Barack Obama braces for savage cuts 2011

  • Religious behavior offers diverse evidence for increased commitment based on formal knowledge, symbolic gestures, and accelerating dissaffection and dissociation.

    Assimilation in the United States: Twentieth Century. 2009

  • Even his personal popularity couldn't insulate him from the groundswell of dissaffection with Bush's policies.

    Breaking: GOP Rep. Paul Gillmor Of Ohio Dies 2009

  • Did anyone ever notice that the left loves to cite polls over American dissaffection with Iraq yet when someone shows them polls showing things like 70% of NYers opposed to giving illegal immigrants driver's licenses or amnesty all of the sudden the hoi polloi don't know what they're talking about.

    "Instead of destroying the president, the ongoing public hostility has only made him stronger." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Affghanistan, even in the moments of its greatest tranquillity, it is difficult to account for the confidence with which the political authorities charged with the management of our affairs in that country looked to the future, and the indifference with which they appear to have regarded what now must appear to every one else to have been very significant, and even alarming, intimations of dissaffection in Cabul, and hostility in the neighbouring districts.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

  • Ladies, active and instrumental as they were in political intrigues, if found out, were made to pay the penalty of their dissaffection with hard imprisonment; or, if at large, wandered from place to place, conscious that the eye of the law pursued their footsteps.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

  • [103] It surely was a piece of ill advised conduct (as many of themselves afterward acknowledged), that ever they elected or admitted any of that family of Ahab, after the Almighty had so remarkably driven them forth of these kingdoms, unto the regal dignity, upon any terms whatsoever; particularly Charles II. after he had given such recent proofs of his dissimulation and dissaffection unto the cause and people of God in these nations.

    Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

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