Dexter chafed against demands that he be a nice boy (and, later, a responsible husband and father).
His at-times irascible demeanour and lack of a 'Celtic background' also chafed with others to varying degrees.
Being told that I could not exercise this option chafed me and represented a disservice to the community.
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The payments industry has chafed at this contention, arguing, for instance, that, unlike checks, approved debit transactions don't bounce.
When he bent over to catch his breath, he saw that his inner thighs were chafed an angry red.
Arab governments have chafed at being shown in an unfamiliar, often unflattering light.
Then he tried his hand as a franchisee for another Quebec operator, Provi-Soir, but chafed at the corporate mandates.
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During the financial crisis, many U.S. financial institutions chafed when regulators and lawmakers pushed for tighter restrictions on compensation and bonuses.
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Yet, she says she always chafed at the company's old, hard sells.
"He got closer and realized that one of the retention straps had literally been cut -- not chafed, not broken or unhooked, " Duffy said.
There would have been far more activity, except that managers at many firms have so far chafed at selling cheaply in a buyer's market.
Mr Brown (and the Treasury) regarded Mr Blair's enthusiasm for the currency as a dangerous frivolity, while Mr Blair chafed over Mr Brown's veto.
He was simply forced to stand there, like a menacing prop, surrounded by the still hooded special-forces team, with his chafed wrists handcuffed behind his back.
As ever, what kept a woman pure was the drudge's life, of which Juvenal supplied the traditional formula: "Hard work, short sleep, hands chafed and hardened" from housework.
The Obama administration, while maintaining strong support for Israel's military and security, has adopted a more mediating role in the Middle East peace process that has chafed at times.
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Fiscal conservatives, meanwhile, chafed at the higher price tag.
Before Bush-Cheney, even if the rest of the world often chafed at America's acting like the world's policeman, most viewed America's actions as based on morality and a transparent rule of law.
The initiative was spearheaded by Thomas Minder, an entrepreneur who as a shareholder in Swissair, the erstwhile sickly and now defunct national airline, had chafed at the huge pay Swissair directors kept awarding themselves.
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Mr Hart tried to keep out of trouble, posting works that were safely in the public domain, but chafed at being unable to give away books that were new, and fought all copyright extensions like a tiger.
Many allied governments are inclined to exploit the widely shared desire to aid the process of reform in Poland and Hungary to dismantle multilateral export control arrangements under which such Western governments and their businesses have chafed for years.
But he leaves little doubt that he sometimes chafed against the all-consuming nature of the Red Sox experience, saying that he looks forward to blending in in New York, the way he believes most players can (non Jeter-and-Alex Rodriguez division).
Joining the EU will give Croatia access to new markets and its citizens freedom to work in other countries, but some Croatians are beginning to agree with other EU residents who have chafed at what they consider interference by bureaucrats in Brussels.
Her Wellesley education and Yale law degree put her onstage (as the student speaker at her college commencement and later as one of the nation's "most influential" lawyers), but they also moved her to the side when her husband's Arkansas constituency chafed at her insistence on being called Ms. Rodham.
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