Instead, I stayed in bed with my eyes closed, forcing myself not to moan.
But if these were effective, why would employees feel the need to moan on Facebook?
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It gives its hand-picked representatives a bit of leeway to moan about house prices, or even corruption.
So what's there to moan about, fellas -- we all trust Google to do the right thing, right?
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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.
"Jesus Is a Good Name to Moan" features squealing guitar feedback and demonstrations of its title, and "Deep Breathing" proves a more honest acoustic track.
In the most egregious instance so far, Littlefinger tutored two prostitutes in how to moan in fake lesbianism for their customers, even as they moaned in fake lesbianism for us a real Uroboros of titillation.
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.
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.
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.
We spent an afternoon talking through the top-ten boss offenders the archetype bad bosses who drive employees around the world to whine and moan and, sometimes, pack up their desk plant and hit the road and turnaround tactics to help even these problem managers succeed.
He would often moan to his friends about the difficulties of balancing his day job and his writing.
Butterfield insists he's managed to mollify customers who moan about SCO.
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.
Petitioning-tribes moan that they have to send mountains of ancient documents to the bureau.
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Small businesses moan that banks will lend to them only on draconian terms, if at all (though they also say weaker sales are a bigger problem).
Unless Internet and catalog purchases are taxed, the states and localities will have to raise income and property taxes, pols moan.
Their rules, moan the banks, have forced them to report enormous losses, and it's just not fair.
"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.
People moan about the need for marketing, but more and more authors are asked to do marketing.
Put our plan to many Europeans creditor Germans, debtor Greeks or Eurosceptic Britons and they may moan that this is not what they were promised when the euro was set up.
In the meantime, foreign governments moan about his government's corruption, ineptitude and abuses, but he knows they are itching to spend their aid budgets and they lack the guts to turn their tough words into action.
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