Western governments are clearly eager not to antagonise China, even if they chafe at its foot-dragging.
But many Middle Easterners, both men and women, chafe at attempts to introduce Western-style feminism.
When Mr Chhabra began to chafe at Global Green's small scale, he was given that option.
Neighbors sometimes chafe at the idea of an edifice down the street the size of the White House.
The Syrians chafe at criticism from Americans for not doing a better job.
Electorates are likely to chafe at the cost of bringing down government deficits, especially if the main result is to repay foreign creditors.
They are often white and male, but they do not feel privileged and they often chafe at the way affirmative-action policies discriminate against them.
Western scholars may chafe at rules that control access to official government documents, but they are nothing compared to the restrictions on information that exist in the Middle East.
And this kind of plea can sometimes sound as if novelists themselves were not aware of the burdensome machinery of novelization (whereas, in my experience, they chafe at it daily).
Many professionals would chafe at the unremitting austerity.
When the teen band 'N Sync began to chafe at its record contract with BMG in 1999, the major labels stayed away, clearly aware that tampering with the act would lead to a legal battle.
At the Cleantech event, Chafe noted that union workers were only 8% of the private sector workforce but nearly a quarter of the voting public nationally.
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