Sentences with phrase «chafe under»

Do you chafe under authority?

Conversely, a huge majority of the lawyers who are in private practice much prefer to be there, as they would chafe under a bureaucratic structure.

Dealers in Europe chafe under the requirement that they pay half of the commission they earn to my New York dealer.

I think games are beginning to wilfully chafe under the boundaries of genre.

I love the social aspects of Bruce Wayne's gameplay, but I chafe under the limitations of Batman's quick time heavy combat.

But after buying that home, they chafe under the mortgage and want to get it off their backs as soon as possible.

Things I will always chafe under with the iPad (even though NONE OF THESE are likely deal - breakers):

Things I will always chafe under with the iPad (even though they are likely NOT deal - breakers for me):

From the more detailed account of a single successful school in Linda Perlstein's book, and other accounts, one has the impression the teachers chafe under the requirements of the tests.

Some middle school students may chafe under the kind of supervision that comes with close personal connections between teachers, parents, and them.

The Gaulds chafe under this unsought distinction, but recognize that they are powerless to change it.

A disenchanted youth and his two older sisters chafe under the rule of their domineering father, toiling day after day as charcoal makers, living a life of enforced deprivation in an abandoned village.

Where there's Sherlock there must, of course, be Watson (Chiwetel Ejiofor), though the latter is starting to chafe under his friend's condescension.

The downside for Massey is that Bloomberg, while now ever - more highly regarded as Republicans chafe under a de Blasio administration, was never really loved by the Republican rank and file and his Bloombergesque profile, at this early stage, appears to leave many Republican Party faithful cold.

Furthermore, while Spoonfed dismisses everything on the front label as «marketing speak,» I can tell you as a lawyer with food regulatory experience that companies often chafe under FDA - required front label disclosures.

A few chafe under requirements that they keep burdensome records, saying their real work is person - to - person, not administrative minutiae.

We also chafe under a convergence of unprecedented military and ecological threats to the continued existence of life on this globe.

In my view, he underestimates the degree to which Americans cherish the concept of «public education» even as they chafe under its present reality.

Some consultants chafe under such a tight grip, but most display a fierce loyalty to their leader.

Already chafing under the company's dress code, this group was incensed at what they perceived to be an injustice — but what was in reality a reasonable exception.

Lakatta is a free - thinker and had in the past chafed under micromanagement.

Following the Second World War, French - speaking consumers increasingly chafed under anglophones» commercial dominance.

American companies have long chafed under Chinese regulations that require them to operate through local partners and share technology with potential competitors in exchange for market access.

Worse, though Rafael and Elizabeth remained on the same team after their painful exchange, Elizabeth chafed under the status change and three months later transferred out of the project.

They also chafed under Apollo's new partner compensation rules, which would see some of their shares of profit paid out in Apollo stock — stock that would not fully vest until three years after Apollo exited the investment that earned the profit, The New York Times reports.

That's a lot of money to spend while chafing under their policies the entire time.

Some bishops chafed under the reproaches and prescribed responses.

If we find ourselves chafing under His hand, it can only be because we are resisting and fighting Him.

Hawaii chafes under it as well and unsuccessfully sued to get relief from it.

A lot of Dems have chafed under Republican rule in Joe's district for years.

Assembly Republicans, who have chafed under Silver's direction of the chamber since 1994, quickly saw their leader demand that Silver get out.

Max, played by Bateman with a more addled version of his usual genial dyspepsia, has spent his life chafing under the shadow of his older brother, Brooks (Kyle Chandler), a venture capitalist who drives a 1976 Corvette Stingray (Max's boyhood dream car).

Unlike Sean though, Beverly chafes under the Hollywood business model, where nothing is even remotely rational.

The setup: On the rugged Scottish highlands, Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) chafes under the watchful eye of her mother, elegant Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson).

While he chafes under the yoke of his new master (the late Oliver Reed), his new enemy whacks the old man, heads back to Rome, and starts making creepy overtures to his she - devil of a sister (Connie Nielsen).

It's a match that seems fated by heaven, or at least by the dictates of narrative, even down to the way Max chafes under the watchful eye of Lyla's father (Marshall Bell), a dyspeptic dirty cop.

(Always chafing under the burden of his father's money; always flinching at the expectation that Marx will bring it up again.)

You're made to be aware of the movie's literary source — stylized voice - overs by multiple narrators, starting with Laura (Carey Mulligan), a woman who sidesteps spinsterhood by marrying a stolid farmer Henry (Jason Clarke), who chafes under the criticism of his hateful father (Jonathan Banks), and lives in the shadow of his more popular brother Jamie (Garrett Hedlund).

Back in 2011, states chafing under the badly outdated No Child Left Behind Act leapt at the Obama administration's offer of relief from the mandates at the center of the law — and the chance to forge a new and innovative partnership with the federal government to bolster standards, pinpoint good teachers, and fix low - performing schools.

Without them, we'd still be paying $ 29 trades and chafing under a oligopoly.

Knowing Bungie's history with Microsoft, and knowing their ambitions to make Destiny a long - lived, ever - evolving game, they probably chafed under the shadow of a three - game contract that could hinder their creative ideas in the future.

After chafing under the strict rules and hierarchy of the Institute, Whitten left behind his interest in science (though it would resurface in his art) and moved toward visual art.

the Whitney, which has long chafed under the cramped dimensions of its magnificent Brutalist building on 75th Street, would relocate entirely to its planned Renzo Piano satellite downtown — but instead of selling the flagship location, it would lease it to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art.Continue Reading

Although Mann did post a corrigendum in July 2004, McIntyre and McKitrick chafed under word limits and negative feedback by Nature and gave up on that course of action.

Additionally, the draft contained a broad governmental executive information privilege (almost identical to the one in your proposed Code) and this really irritated the Congressmen, who were at that time chafing under President Nixon's excessive claims of executive privilege.

(Bloomberg)-- Jersey City, whose three - decade boom in condominium and office towers dubbed it New Jersey's Wall Street West, is chafing under demands to spread its tax burden more equally...

Not exact matches

And some of the chafing may even be part of the fit that develops: as the Beatles will later sing in «Hey, Jude,» some lovers must remember, to let her under your skin in order to make it better.

Some American military officials had also chafed at what they viewed as long and onerous White House procedures for approving strikes under the Obama administration.

John was a young man with but a year or two of college — very different from the dozens of highly educated, articulate white volunteers working under him, who often chafed at his direction.

They've been laboring under a dreadful, chafing yoke, and God has shattered it.