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Complained in sentence

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But because the kids complained they wanted the newer one, we never finished the older version.
When I was walking out of the theater, some people complained that the movie was very good, but that it was too long.
Northern PDP leaders complained that Yar’Adua’s predecessor, a Christian southerner, had ruled Nigeria for eight years and that it was only fair that a northerner should hold power.
No wonder Nabil Shaath, a former Palestinian foreign minister, complained to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in January about Greece’s “betrayal of Palestine.”
Critics have complained that it would reduce liquidity in important markets, such as those for non-US sovereign debt.
(Stalin once complained that establishing party rule there was like putting a saddle on a cow.)
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who often complained about trade imbalances in Europe, should applaud these market reactions, which were unintentionally strengthened by her president.
Central Banking DefloweredFLORENCE – After the European Central Bank announced on May 9 that it would buy the government bonds of Mediterranean countries experiencing severe fiscal strains, critics complained that the Bank had “lost its virginity.”
Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, for example, complained that the institution was operating at the bounds of legality.
The Russians complained.
I was frustrated because the hotel management was not listening to me when I asked for a quiet room – or later, when I complained.
“And we wonder why international organizations are ineffective,” he complained.
The British long complained of the unfairness of these rules, especially in view of the fact that the UK was one of the relatively poorer member states; and in 1984, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government demanded, and got, a massive rebate on its net contribution to the EU budget.
It is worth noting that sovereignty’s defenders never complained when the euro brought their countries the low inflation and interest rates of the euro’s most stable predecessor currencies in exchange for handing over their monetary-policy competencies to the European Central Bank.
Other countries complained and expounded alternate approaches, but basically went along with the Western-defined rules.
The benefits derived from the dollar being the world’s main reserve currency constitute the “exorbitant privilege” about which France’s then-finance minister, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, complained in the 1960s.
Israelis complained about Mubarak’s “cold peace,” but they appreciated that he adhered to the treaty’s fundamental provisions.
Brazil and other countries that complained about “hot money” inflows and “currency wars,” have now suddenly gotten what they wished for: a likely early end of the Fed’s QE.
The latest controversy emerged when a senior US official complained to the influential Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz about Israel’s refusal to condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine or to support Ukraine’s territorial integrity in the United Nations General Assembly.
When the local United Steelworkers union president complained publicly, the famously thin-skinned Trump responded by getting into a Twitter spat, blaming the union president for the lost jobs.
Intellectuals complained that too little time and energy was spent on "mastering" the past.
Critics have derided the NTC’s lack of transparency and complained about its opaque decision-making.
The US government complained again, but at the same time the Bush administration delivered a $1.4 billion aid package, the so-called “Merida Initiative,” to fight the traffickers.
He recently complained to the New York Times that the US spends too much money on missile defenses and troops stationed in South Korea and Japan, and promised that, if elected, he would require both countries to contribute more to their own defense.
Gul, for example, complained to the police about her abusive in-laws, but she was returned to the family when some of their influential contacts intervened.
China complained loudly, refused to allow Liu to collect the prize, and even threatened Norway with financial repercussions.
Some American senators complained that when President Barack Obama’s Commerce Department handed its oversight of the IANA functions to ICANN, it was “giving away the Internet.”
When indigenous leaders of Oaxaca’s local fishing community complained that the new facilities would have a negative impact on their source of income and way of life, they were subjected to acts of intimidation, judicial prosecutions, and physical attacks.
The health ministry representative responsible for the malaria component was a crony of the health minister and complained about his proposal's rejection.
In his recent speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke forcefully complained that political paralysis has possibly become the principal impediment to recovery.
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