The copious apologies rankle some critics of the Iraq war, including retired Col.
And, of course, the delay might rankle customers whose stuff was sitting on the tracks for an extra day.
When prices were depressed and profits scarce foreign firms had to be lured with generous terms that now rankle.
There are many issues on which Germany will never side with America, and plenty of others that will rankle.
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That could rankle some people, says Robert Passikoff, president of Brand Keys, a brand consulting firm based in New York.
Some ill-chosen ambassadors to the region (and delays in their confirmation) rankle.
South Korea does too, and historical memories still rankle in that country.
This is one area which continues to rankle in many quarters.
But finding firms with the expertise and steely nerves needed to do business with a country whose alleged nuclear ambitions rankle the US isn't easy.
Those who play on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 might rankle at the legions of new casual gamers upending an industry traditionally focused on big-budget, AAA titles.
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Orrin Hatch (R-UT) announced plans that may rankle some of those in the public sector: legislation that would subject Thrift Savings Plans (TSP) to levies for back taxes.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Bob Casey suffered a rift with the national party on abortion in an incident that continues to rankle some religious voters more than a decade-and-a-half later.
In many ways, those things rankle me more now than they did when I first read the book in the third grade (and made a mean shoebox diorama to boot).
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The prime minister may have fewer political enemies, but he also has little mass support -- something likely to rankle with more powerful leaders in the Front as well as in Congress.
Although some of the remaining rules still rankle such as restrictions on the sort of work that the accountants' affiliate firms can undertake for audit clients the outcome was a huge victory for the Big Five.
Hoffman's portrayal of Flynn, the modern-thinking humanist whose progressive sermons and personal habits -- like an enjoyment of three sugars in his tea --rankle austere Aloysius, has won him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Rolex, however, gets the last laugh, as it is the official timekeeper for the whole of Formula One, which must rankle with all of the brands such as Hublot and Richard Mille which have their own deals with teams or individual drivers.
The title is the only lyric that could possibly be replicated in these pages, but it will have die-hard punks everywhere reminiscing on the days when they used to play it, loud, with the bedroom door open to rankle their long-suffering parents.
" That fuzzy line between authenticity and the reproduction can rankle purists, who see in the democratization of taste a profusion of tasteful items "devalued, " as Paul Goldberger once wrote, in a piece about Friedman when he was at Pottery Barn, "by their very accessibility.
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