Sentences with phrase «chafing at»

This is an all - too common predicament for local government leaders in Florida these days: chafing at state limits on how they govern the voters who elected them.

Yet another friend reported chafing at a relative's email when sisters were listed out of birth order.

I've heard lots of envious, off - the - record chafing at colleagues» success among the self - published, and I've seen what looked like authentic mutual support among the «tradpubs.»

Long before Donald Trump and Parkland, teachers were chafing at GOP efforts to promote for - profit charter schools and finance tax cuts with funding siphoned from public education.

Fast - forward three years, and the nation is split between higher - performing states chafing at the prospect of less rigorous standards leading to declining student performance, and their lower - performing counterparts that are unwilling or unable to fund the transition to Common Core tests.

She's a capable player of the game, while chafing at the slights suffered by women in the high - end corporate world.

Childless after enduring several miscarriages, the couple is in Generation X limbo, chafing at their lives of diminished expectation.

At the behest of his best friends Frank (Ferrell), newly and unhappily married, and Beanie (Vaughn), a multimillionaire and family man chafing at the boredom of family life, the brokenhearted Mitch (Wilson) reluctantly agrees to turn his new bachelor pad into a frat house (some rigamarole about zoning laws prompts the switchover to Greek life).

despite chafing at the all - black, you make it look good.

«My view is that every single day we should be chafing at the yoke of Albany control on everything.»

It's best that shoulder straps have an adjustable chest buckle that keeps the straps on your shoulders while preventing chafing at the neck.

Hocking was chafing at a mission desk job in the States while his wife recovered from a traumatic experience.

Though many of these haters would chafe at the mere suggestion, it's a devastating cooperative relationship: domestic anti-Semites, while cherry - picking useful tips on online organizing and youth recruitment from Islamist terror groups» successes, are also emboldening terrorists.

Trump has sometimes chafed at scripted events, deviating from the planned message to discuss whatever is on his mind.

The brothers may chafe at the suggestion, but Gemini is also their play for respect, both in the digital - currency world they've embraced and in the larger realm of tech entrepreneurs.

And though Bay Street types might chafe at the comparison, Ferrante's anecdotes from life in La Cosa Nostra make as good a framework as any for conveying maxims about getting ahead in the business world.

Privately, the president has chafed at suggestions that Russia worked to help his campaign, believing they undermine the legitimacy of his victory.

In the first several decades of Confederation, they often chafed at the trade barriers that were put in place to protect and nurture the growth of the manufacturing industries of central Canada.

In Quebec, hearings on Energy East are on hold, as that pipeline's would - be builder chafes at the National Energy Board's new plan to weigh the impact of its upstream climate - change impact.

Too often designers view large firms with suspicion and chafe at executives» constant carping about measurable results and ROI.

Younger people already chafe at the thought that they will not be able to retire at the same age and with the same benefits as boomers and pre-boomers.

But many conservatives chafed at the idea that the president's personal views would not affect public policy.»

Even though I chafed at the suggestion that I had gone into the ministry «to follow in my father's footsteps,» I knew that they were large footsteps and wondered if I would be able to live up to the standard of faithfulness and effectiveness he had embodied.

For many years Ursula Niebuhr and Sifton chafed at interpreters who didn't capture the Reinhold Niebuhr they knew or who sometimes got him quite wrong.

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.

I really chafe at self - promoting but the PR crew from Random House et al seems missing in action (which is probably because I'm now with River Heart Press).

I always chafed at that bit of oil or honey that stuck to the measuring cup.

Rivers was always careful not to step on Tomlinson's toes — particularly when the two - time rushing champ chafed at Turner's decision to run the offense through Rivers's right arm.

By 1972, when she was 15 and the Czech women's champion, she was competing regularly in Europe and North America and beginning to chafe at the restraints imposed by the Czech Tennis Federation, which controlled players by means of its power to rescind their travel permits.

The 57 - year - old Mazzone also butted heads with some of his younger pitchers, like Erik Bedard, who grumbled about the throwing program and chafed at Mazzone's direct personal approach.

But in 2002, while most of the nation marveled at Palmer «Äôs Heisman year, Leinart chafed at having to sit.

I wouldn't try it with a kid who really didn't want to use the potty, though, or a kid who chafed at a lot of structure or was having any stress or changes going on in his or her life.

Some of their colleagues chafe at the pair's favorable standing, and the boss, chief of staff John Kelly, has worked to instill a military - style hierarchy to the West Wing.

However, lawmakers in both chambers have chafed at the play, and so far have refused to introduce the budget amendments, a maneuver that allows them to retain some leverage over the governor during the budget talks.

Still, some council members chafed at her role: The councilwoman who led the fight against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bid to build a West Side Stadium in 2005, one argued, had suddenly become the most visible advocate for a new Manhattan arena.

Just a day after she «chafed at the decision by California Republican Party Chair Jim Brulte to target Democratic Assemblyman Adam Gray of Merced,» Assembly GOP leader Kristin Olsen turned her fire on the caucus staff who helped her...

If you link this parody to yet another WS play, Madmen and Specialists, you might just chafe at the madness that has seized the Nigerian populace, in the rash orchestration of the «death» of a man alive but taciturn; by the voluble that claim life but, by their spiteful conduct, are dead and rotten.

Some chafed at Mr. Giulietti's zealous focus on safety since assuming the job, arguing that while protecting riders was paramount, commuters deserved more.

«I chafed at that,» Bill Walsh said.

Just a day after she «chafed at the decision by California Republican Party Chair Jim Brulte to target Democratic Assemblyman Adam Gray of Merced,» Assembly GOP leader Kristin Olsen turned her fire on the caucus staff who helped her pick up three seats on election night.

But Mr. de Blasio has chafed at calls for the city to assume responsibility for a much bigger share of the financing for the state - run authority.

Many liberals have chafed at Mr. Cuomo's centrism, his closeness to Wall Street and the charter school lobby.

As relations between Mr. Bruno and Mr. Pataki soured, Mr. Skelos positioned himself as a vociferous defender of the Senate as an institution, helping him win over a coterie of senior senators from upstate who chafed at Mr. Pataki's expectation that the Senate would do as he said.

Philip Page, an organic chemist at the University of East Anglia who also challenged EPSRC's original policy, still chafes at the modified policy, but he will now continue to peer - review grant proposals for the council.

Under this liberated Venus influence you chafe at the idea of anyone «owning» you.

It wasn't the big deal America seems to be making it into, and I chafe at the complete dismissal of non-Western medicine by Westerners, just because the western scientific proof isn't in English for you to read yet.

I loved that it was a soft canvas, so the material didn't chafe at all, and that it had arch support (again, easy on my infuriating flat feet).

People may have chafed at the rigidity of the mores of the day, but everyone understood what was going on in his or her own socio - economic area.

While Keaton's first vehicle for MGM, The Cameraman, was up to his usual high standards, he chafed at the studio's interference and insistence that the filmmaker work within the same boundaries as its other employees.