They have heard the sniping that their own charitable giving hasn't quite kept pace with their rise in wealth.
The sniping from rivals began as soon as the company filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in July 2002.
The sniping began even before the Czechs took their turn in the EU chair, on January 1st, and was loudest in Paris.
"I told them not to lose their confidence despite all the sniping and the pressure we were under, " Hadden told BBC Sport.
That's characteristic of the sniping posture of many defensive elders who haven't put their gifts to good use in the guise of cultural critic.
The uproar over these privileges may damage the government's plans more than the sniping from the opposition parties, which have so far failed to present any plausible alternative.
Of course, once the selections were announced, the sniping began.
But having agreed to stay on, she will have to grin and bear the sniping from Mr Olmert's allies, who are already trying to paint her as a coward.
It was all splendid public relations for King Abdullah, as he prepares to welcome the World Economic Forum this weekend, dispelling the sniping that he has come to enjoy playing the despot.
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Or at school admissions offices, where the under-the-breath sniping between the parents imperils the applicant's chances.
The two sides were back to the diplomatic sniping they seemed to have renounced.
What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight.
Raul Alfonsin, a former president now running a poor second as the Alliance's candidate in Buenos Aires province, has spent most of the last two years sniping from the sidelines.
Over twenty Congressmen came in and out of the hearing room on Wednesday, sniping at the Commissioners and each other.
Paul Warwick got closest to breaching the try-line but his sniping run on the left was ended by a knock on, forced by a Jerry Collins tackle.
For his efforts, the Homeland Security Committee's chairman was subjected to tremendous personal attacks and partisan sniping - the wages of taboo-busting.
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Mrs Beckett also insisted the election of four left-wingers to Labour's ruling executive committee would not lead to continual sniping at the leadership.
Those wouldn't be the last dirty tricks in South Carolina presidential politics, but they were enough to keep the Connally and Bush camps sniping at each other, and leaving Reagan to appear above the fray.
The reasons for this one's collapse were as much to do with personal sniping as with the government's desultory record.
That does not stop sniping from the Liberal Democrats, who are her main challengers.
For many months, critics have been sniping at the Bush administration's unsavoury choice of ally.
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There is also likely to be sniping from the new Welsh language pressure group, Cymuned.
The fun part in this battle is how viciously the law firms are sniping at each other.
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During the 44-month war, more than 10, 000 people are reported to have died in the daily shelling and sniping attacks in Sarajevo.
He had tried to exert full control over Iridium's loose confederation of marketing partners, publicly sniping at the competence of its regional distributors.
Today's joint appearance came amid recent sniping between the campaigns.
As Galston and others have theorized, all this sniping saps the public's trust in the government, but it does something equally insidious, too: It saps trust between the parties, completing the vicious cycle and making compromise even tougher.
If all Republicans offer is sniping and weak rhetoric the electorate may just stand pat.
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