Excerpt: It was time to hit the road before our togetherness began to chafe.
Hardworking, honest citizens chafe at corrupt officials who treat them with contempt and get rich quick.
Feminism is about choice, about not giving in to restrictive roles that chafe the soul.
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Western governments are clearly eager not to antagonise China, even if they chafe at its foot-dragging.
Rising stars who chafe against the hierarchy occasionally opt to set up on their own.
But many Middle Easterners, both men and women, chafe at attempts to introduce Western-style feminism.
When Mr Chhabra began to chafe at Global Green's small scale, he was given that option.
Neighbors sometimes chafe at the idea of an edifice down the street the size of the White House.
The Syrians chafe at criticism from Americans for not doing a better job.
The American administrators chafe at this attitude: we liberated you but we don't want to nanny you, they say.
Most people chafe under too much authority, too much forcefulness, too much control.
Although ministers with large egos might chafe, they have not done so publicly.
Chafe seasoned his remarks with words like "dialogue" and "relationships"--he used some variation of "partner" at least a dozen times.
Although they chafe against the limits imposed on intellectual and political freedom, surveys suggest that many value stability above all.
That said, even these people chafe at the endless reports in the international media--especially the Australian press--of atrocities in East Timor.
There is nothing deceitful about ingratiation--it is merely strategic self-presentation designed to veil (not deny) personality traits that might chafe or offend.
An affecting element of this book is the way its elegiac impulses accord with, even as they chafe against, the documentary impulses.
And that political heft, Chafe warned, could easily tilt the other way.
The Obama administration is not the first to chafe under these restraints, but it has been among the most flagrant in ignoring them.
Electorates are likely to chafe at the cost of bringing down government deficits, especially if the main result is to repay foreign creditors.
Yet millions of Iranians chafe under irksome limits to their freedom and blame their country's international isolation on bellicose posturing by Mr Ahmadinejad.
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The aide said there are several moderate Democrats from GOP-leaning states up for re-election in two years who will chafe against raising taxes.
They are often white and male, but they do not feel privileged and they often chafe at the way affirmative-action policies discriminate against them.
Though they may chafe at the idea of armed guards on planes, they realise that there is little chance of the Bush administration backing down.
Cultures everywhere celebrate their traditions, but they also chafe against them.
At the Cleantech event, Chafe noted that union workers were only 8% of the private sector workforce but nearly a quarter of the voting public nationally.
Western scholars may chafe at rules that control access to official government documents, but they are nothing compared to the restrictions on information that exist in the Middle East.
And this kind of plea can sometimes sound as if novelists themselves were not aware of the burdensome machinery of novelization (whereas, in my experience, they chafe at it daily).
Sorenson, her state chairman, blasted Perry's "horrible" record on immigration policy and said his 2007 attempt to mandate HPV vaccinations for sixth-grade girls in Texas is sure to chafe Christian conservatives.
Algeria's private businessmen chafe under a heavy bureaucratic yoke.
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