Union officials will dutifully argue that they can't pursue grievances in courts as do other unions in industries not blessed with exemptions.

Some were pursuing local grievances, some were disadvantaged and suffering relative poverty, while others appear to have been motivated by strong radical beliefs.

While violent incidents have declined in recent years, the ethnic Greek minority has pursued grievances with the government regarding electoral zones, Greek-language education, property rights.

Prisoners' Legal Services of New York exists solely to help poor inmates pursue grievances ranging from improper calculation of sentences to brutality by guards.

Because judicial decisions are subject to the sometimes arbitrary assessments of the CCP, citizens who attempt to make use of the legal system to pursue grievances find that, if their cause is determined to have the potential to undermine the authority of the Communist Party, they may be suppressed.

His use of these courts to pursue personal grievances, and particularly to treat delinquents as if mere examples of a whole class worthy of punishment, angered the rich, who were annoyed as well by his enormous wealth and ostentatious living.

The cutbacks were expected to make it more difficult to pursue grievances against lawyers.

In addition to the membership decline, officials from the parent union criticized Mr. Bevona's local for not providing adequate services to members, suggesting that union representatives rarely met with members and did too little to pursue grievances.

For the Italians, the indictment of Ms. True signals a readiness to use their judiciary's full artillery to pursue grievances against American museums.