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Complain in sentence

508 examples of Complain in a sentence

And well Mitch is in so you cant really complain!
The show hasn't even been on for years, I just signed up for IMDb so I can check out movies etc and yet still here I am, years later, coming to this page, one of the first ten pages I visited after I signed up for this service just to complain about how awful this show was.
For ninety minutes this film has two characters talk and argue about the troubles that they are having in their relationship and I thought of one thing, if a friend of yours started to complain about their relationship could you listen to them for ninety minutes?
Many jerks complain about a dumb song called "Strange Love" that's indifferently imposed on one sequence.
This movie is too ambitious for its own good, and it exemplifies everything that Spike's critics complain about.
Kenyans typically complain that key positions are not advertised nationally (as required by law) until the employer has already found the “ideal” candidate.
These funds’ managers rightly complain that insufficient investment opportunities exist in the region in agriculture and manufacturing.
Others, such as Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, see the country’s problems as difficult but manageable, and complain of interference from ill-intentioned foreign speculators.
They may vote because if they don’t, they will be in no position to complain if they don’t like the government that is elected.
Perhaps realizing that an entertained and distracted populace is less likely to complain about public policy, the Party has allowed entertainment programming to follow the Western model, lessening the need for micro-managed censorship.
But I cannot (and do not) then complain if my income does not grow faster and faster.
Small businesses will always complain that they do not have the organizational clout to extract public funds from governments.
They complain that such a generous family benefit will weaken work incentives and blow up the government budget.
Many Poles see a government that finally does something for ordinary people, and all liberals can do is complain, ironically, that it is anti-democratic.
Most politicians know that sound economics would call for these benefits to be eliminated; but those who complain the loudest that the government must not pick corporate winners and losers seem to be the least able to summon the political will to act.
President Barack Obama is right to complain of blackmail.
Some may complain that the AGOA favors petroleum products, but the figures speak for themselves.
The Fed, its critics complain, has used its expansive powers to engage in a range of unprecedented interventions that have propped up large financial institutions.
Citizens complain about income, inequality, or rising house prices, not about the lack of jobs.
Worldwide, one-third of employers surveyed complain that they are unable to find workers with the right skills for existing vacancies.
Even in Sweden, activists complain, rapes in which the men know their assailants go unprosecuted, because the victims are not seen as “good girls.”
They complain bitterly about regulators’ “interference” with the free market, property rights, and the sacrosanct ideal of home ownership.
They complain about year-long waits for eye operations and hip surgery--a direct result of a Social Democratic reform of 1994 that abolished the right of patients to seek alternative care at public expense if they are not treated within three months by their regional council.
Still, European governments typically complain about the lack of fiscal resources to support R&D (a far fetched argument given the miniscule share of research spending in the oversized European budgets) and, whenever the European Commission allows them, they subsidize innovative firms, or those that they think are more likely to invest in R&D.
As most countries have started making serious investments in renewable energy, and many are implementing carbon prices and regulations, critics complain that such policies may undermine growth.
Meanwhile, Europeans (especially the French) complain about the big US deficits, and de Gaulle's argument that the rest of the world is paying for America's wars is in fashion again.
Women’s groups lose the right to complain about the lack of women on the bench if they fail to nominate women for vacant positions.
Similarly, human-rights groups and other progressive organizations cannot complain about the shifting jurisprudential balance on the Constitutional Court if only conservative-minded jurists are being nominated for vacancies.
Critics in the United States complain that the over-militarization of foreign policy undercuts its credibility.
The government’s few technocrats, including the deputy prime minister and the finance minister, are holdovers from the previous coup government of 2006-2007, and they complain that they lack authority.
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