Then, he drew a finger across his throat to indicate his belief that the Government will eventually embark on a nation-wide crackdown to quell shows of popular disaffection.

Its victory owed much to diligent grass-roots organization, and to popular disaffection with traditional secular parties that are widely regarded as corrupt and out of touch.

Confronted with mounting popular disaffection, he and his subordinates tried to bring students, intellectuals and the middle class back into the system through favors and huge outlays of government expenditures.

It was an imperfect election, but it was free enough to register popular disaffection from Communism, and to make the idea of democracy take hold.

Of course, many of those same leaders are autocrats, or much worse, and would like to blame all the popular disaffection in their countries on Israel.

Seizing the popular disaffection with the economy and consolidating gains over the last two decades a powerful rightwing lobby is shaping policy in Washington.

I can't relate to these people and I'm not alone in thinking that it's not appropriate for these street-people to represent the popular disaffection with bonus-culture.

The government's use of police and the judiciary to suppress industrial disputes, through the arrest of radicals and the harassment of trade union activity, heightened popular disaffection.

This campaign of ballot spoiling wasn't a subcultural anarchist prank, but a reflection of extraordinarily widespread popular disaffection.

Martín perceives a real danger in this popular disaffection, however.