Hardworking, honest citizens chafe at corrupt officials who treat them with contempt and get rich quick.
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.
The American administrators chafe at this attitude: we liberated you but we don't want to nanny you, they say.
That said, even these people chafe at the endless reports in the international media--especially the Australian press--of atrocities in East Timor.
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.
Though they may chafe at the idea of armed guards on planes, they realise that there is little chance of the Bush administration backing down.
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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