Sentences with phrase «to grumble about»

There is plenty of grumbling about how online shopping is forcing many retailers across the country to close...

and a lot of grumbling about job security and the risks of matching muscles with the weaker sex, male jockeys gradually acquiesced to such promotional frippery as the «Jack»n Jill Handicap.»

If you don't believe me, try this: randomly scan through the TripAdvisor comments about any tourist attraction, resort, or country, and you'll find people grumbling about some of the most trivial and inconsequential things imaginable, at some of the most fantastic places on god's green earth.

Ironically, critics who grumble about this style in Triumph of Love seemed to like it three years ago in Bertolucci's Besieged, which was co-written by Peploe.

Cuomo, who indicated he'd back the party's goals of helping Democrats take back the State Senate and allowing localities to raise the minimum wage, downplayed the boos and heckling he received in absentia this weekend at the convention of the Working Families Party, whose union and progressive members have long grumbled about Cuomo's fiscally conservative policies and working relationship with Republicans.

A sugar daddy who is over the age of 50 and still grumbling about life comes across as a cranky old man to a sugar baby.

Gone is the the rock - paper - scissors affinity triangle many players grumbled about from Dynasty Warriors 8.

It is an irony of history that Trump, who often grumbled about scientific research, used a highly scientific approach in his campaign.

United do not play another another league game until March 4 and with Mourinho already grumbling about the a gruelling fixture ahead of the EFL Cup final against Southampton in a fortnight's time — he must now turn to Shaw.

Ken Langone, the billionaire Roman Catholic who helped found Home Depot, told CNBC he has heard grumbling about the Pope's comments about the wealthy.

Although now I am old enough to appreciate the visuals (first time around, I just grumbled about how the books were better), I feel that it would be a great day out!!!

If you had, you would stop grumbling about such things, and indeed about anything else.

I play it all from shooters to RPGs all while grumbling about getting owned by 12 year olds.

Moreover, some advisers not only didn't encourage their students to attend, but they also grumbled about time spent away from the lab.

Before you start grumbling about rude recruiters and a tough job market, you might want to take a good hard look at your resume.

While the perks could be worse, with nice touches like free fruit and a day off on your birthday, there are a fair few grumbles about freebies — or lack of them.

Insert curmudgeonly grumbling about kids these days, and how we walked to school, up hill both ways, in snow 10 months out of the year or some such thing...

In an option offense, where we give the football to the fullback a lot, he's never grumbled about that.

After grumbling about the CCSS's unfathomable vernation of cold reading as rigor transcendent, I argued that the assessment industrial complex conflates comprehension with test - taking literacies.

Complaining about gas prices is the economic equivalent of complaining about the weather: it's a conversation - starter, a chance to grumble about something slightly confusing.

«Cuomo, who indicated he'd back the party's goals of helping Democrats take back the State Senate and allowing localities to raise the minimum wage, downplayed the boos and heckling he received in absentia this weekend at the convention of the Working Families Party, whose union and progressive members have long grumbled about Cuomo's fiscally conservative policies and working relationship with Republicans.

But, with Cuomo nearly an hour late and workers anxious to get back to their tasks, some began openly grumbling about the governor's tardy arrival.

And from time to time he invited onlookers to become party to the establishment enjoying itself at a Christmas event, entertaining the local Grimbledon Downers, or picnicking around the cricket ground — though there was always someone there grumbling about the latest twists and turns of events in science and technology.

On the minus side, we hear that some insiders are grumbling about Game Night «s release date in the wake of Black Panther.

Gone is the the rock - paper - scissors affinity triangle many players grumbled about from Dynasty Warriors 8.

«I've been grumbling about trad pub fiction because more and more of it has typos, pagination flaws, isn't edited beyond Spell - Check,»

Now that GE has agreed to buy a 2.5 - acre parcel of land in Fort Point Channel, real estate adjacent to Boston's Seaport tech hotbed there is more grumbling about just how much of the freight the company will pay and how much will be footed by the state and city — aka the public.

I actually thought of you when I was doing it yesterday and grumbling about what a pain it was!

I felt bad about forcing Mr Ltt to «get his plumber on» and get the dishwasher sorted yesterday, because he was working on Saturday and he was grumbling about needing a break, but by giving him a small window of opportunity to get it done before the Formula One was on, he was motivated enough to finish it on time.

In Uptown Kingston, where Departures has been shooting for the past several weeks, filming has been accompanied by some low - level grumbling about everything from parking to pushy production assistants.

Although these acquisitions have been successful from an economic standpoint, the acquired partners and a few of the firm's mid-level and junior partners have begun grumbling about the firm's governance.

Such is his stature that shadow cabinet members grumble about being outranked even by Mr Osborne's aides, who have accrued the de facto power to approve or reject proposals in his absence.

As for handwriting, when was the last time your elementary student came home grumbling about spending the entire day practicing handwriting?

Wednesday's news that California solar manufacturer and DOE loan guarantee recipient Solyndra will be declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy has government critics grumbling about clean tech boondoggles and failed government programs and has analysts worried about the ability of American clean tech companies to compete with subsidized Chinese solar exporters.

In the past day or so, you might have heard some online grumbling about Martin's appearance at the 92nd Street Y, where Monday night he was interviewed by New York Times Magazine Q&A columnist Deborah Solomon.

NYU Launchpad came to fruition in March, after Rimalovski and others started hearing students grumble about balancing a startup with school.

Because despite the hype (and my father's endless grumbling about unnecessary tests and scans every time he sees a doctor), the main trouble with American health care isn't how much we consume.

IBM sold it more than a decade ago, and you can still find retired IBMers grumbling about the changes.

In 2008, a California chiropractor sued his patient after he took to Yelp to grumble about billing practices.

This can mean grumbling about management may arise when unpopular decisions are made.

It's the same thing after every Super Bowl: Canadians grumbling about not being able to see the big, fancy new ads and instead being subjected to the same hum - drum fare they've seen a million times already.

Secunda grumbled about how much Bloomberg was spending to break into the new market in a big way, rather than targeting a small niche.

In order to maintain a cohesive team, do not spread gossip, cause another to feel like an outcast, or grumble about petty things.

While many bosses quietly grumble about the burden of accommodating new parents, strategic companies are focusing instead on finding ways to minimize the disruption and using family - oriented perks to clinch staff loyalty.

Interestingly enough, despite older generations grumbling about the plugged - in entitled youth, everyone is shopping more like a Millennial.

If you did convertible debt at a large discount (say 30 %) and it was done only 2 months before you're talking to a VC they will probably grumble about the discount that the previous investor is getting.