Masekela became a working musician, but chafed against the oppressive laws and brutal enforcement.
Dexter chafed against demands that he be a nice boy (and, later, a responsible husband and father).
Many chafed when he ramped up the war in Afghanistan, but hardly any would prefer his predecessor.
His at-times irascible demeanour and lack of a 'Celtic background' also chafed with others to varying degrees.
But Mr. Prokhorov chafed against the tight restrictions of his Kremlin minders, who then took the party away.
Some people have chafed at the idea that they are constantly being monitored by an electronic Big Brother.
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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Some party rivals must surely have chafed at such a grab for power and money, and grumbled privately about Mr Zhou's effectiveness.
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.
Bahrain's Shia majority, and the minority Saudi community that lives above the kingdom's oilfields, have long chafed under Sunni governments that happened to be America's friends.
For more than an hour, the prince obliged the photographer without complaint until a nanny took him away, removed his boots and found the feet inside chafed raw.
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.
In response Vietnam, which has chafed at China's efforts to stop Western oil companies signing offshore oil exploration deals quietly led a lobbying attempt to get America to stand up for South-East Asia.
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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.
They make up two-thirds of Syria's population, but have historically chafed at the dominance, during 40 years of rule by the Assad family, of the Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose adherents account for some 6% of Syrians.
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