Then there's the steady, maddening aero moan as the G-wagon beats a square hole in the air going down a highway.
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In the UK, many people may moan about the treatment they get from the National Health Service, but at the same time, it is not an exaggeration to say it is a much-loved and strongly defended institution.
So, the next time you start to moan about the weird tech support guys and grumble about your internal support costs and how little seems to get done just understand that this stupid Microsoft bug is just one small part of the black hole that sucks away their time.
So complained Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, in a 1714 moan about the Palatine refugees from the Rhineland.
The people who moan about potholes on Johannesburg's radio phone-in programmes have no sense of perspective.
But if these were effective, why would employees feel the need to moan on Facebook?
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Their rules, moan the banks, have forced them to report enormous losses, and it's just not fair.
Still, when the professors saw one another at the staff club or at church or at a faculty meeting, they were careful to moan about the riffraff from town coming onto their sacred campus to steal.
People moan about the need for marketing, but more and more authors are asked to do marketing.
But while others moan from the sidelines, let's applaud their sheer optimism in giving it a go.
"People gripe and moan about the penny, but they still want to keep it, " says Richard Doty, senior curator of the Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
In America, where the five cities were chosen with help from exile groups, some moan about preferential treatment: the Kurds, for instance, are strong in Nashville, which has a total Iraqi population smaller than, say, the San Francisco Bay area.
Let me reassure you at this point that this isn't some sort of extended traffic bulletin or Clarkson-esque moan - but the context is important.
It's very easy to moan about giving from the comfort of your own laptop, having had the luck to be born in the West.
The taxi driver looked at me, looked at the elephant and let out a low moan of terror.
He would often moan to his friends about the difficulties of balancing his day job and his writing.
We moan about libraries while Ireland debates the existence of entire hospitals.
Right away it sighed and lost the troubled look, but then it gave a moan.
Rather than examining in detail the United States' relations with Europe, he prefers to moan about how Britain joined one sort of Europe only to discover that its partners were hell-bent on creating another.
The foghorns that keep sailors and beach house residents up at night moan at a measly 105 decibels.
Ta Moan turned out to be a sleepy site, about the size of a football field, with brown rock remains of walls that outlined one central building with some still visible decorated doorways and corridors, and half a dozen subsidiary structures.
So what's there to moan about, fellas -- we all trust Google to do the right thing, right?
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Unless Internet and catalog purchases are taxed, the states and localities will have to raise income and property taxes, pols moan.
Speed freaks moan that's still only half as fast as typical broadband connections used in the home.
Don't moan about Blackpool when you've got a team like Portsmouth who have spent six years in the Premier League, blown millions of pounds on players and still don't have a training base or a decent ground.
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