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Complained in sentence

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Critics of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, for example, acknowledged that his ability to articulate a vision was one of his great strengths as a leader, but complained about his lack of attention to detail.
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s subsequent official visit to Washington in January 2011 was successful, but many Chinese editorialists complained that the US was trying to “contain” China and prevent its peaceful rise.
But when I complained about bias against gays, the editor responded that gays don't deserve any sort of protection.
C.auris was first identified in Japan in 2009, in the ear of a patient who complained of an infection.
And what about Trump, of whom at least a dozen women have complained of unwanted sexual advances (if not worse)?
The Obama administration’s proposed measures would simply create “regulatory confusion,” one of them complained.
Most of the people with whom I spoke complained endlessly about government shortcomings.
In the past, many EU member states complained that the “cold peace” between France and Germany was hampering effective governance of the Union.
Some of the younger officers complained about corruption.
Former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing once famously complained about America’s “exorbitant privilege.”
During a recent trip to Brazil, my taxi driver complained about Sao Paulo’s bumpy streets and highways.
In 1998, when America complained about seven Moscow Internet addresses involved in the theft of Pentagon and NASA secrets, the Russian government replied that phone numbers from which the attacks originated were inoperative.
Haldane rightly complained that banking regulation has evolved from a small number of very specific guidelines to mind-numbingly complicated statistical algorithms for measuring risk and capital adequacy.
Since independence, governments dominated by Myanmar’s Burman majority have allowed postcolonial nativism to breed conflict or civil war with many of the country’s minority groups, which have complained of a system of geographic apartheid.
After her husband complained, the Nobel committee made an exceptional concession, and she was added to the award (she and her husband shared it with the French physicist Henri Becquerel).
America’s fellow NATO member Turkey is the world leader in imprisoning journalists, yet the Trump administration has complained only about the detention of one (recently released) American pastor, and that was just to placate America’s “religious right” (beginning with Vice President Mike Pence).
Other critics complained that Bush did not set more transformational objectives regarding Russian democracy, the Middle East, or nuclear non-proliferation at a time when world politics seemed fluid.
“The big Asian central banks are oppressing us,” one young trader recently complained to me.
Indeed, the Muslim Brotherhood government and the secular opposition both complained about America’s relationship with the other.
Flint’s residents complained of the water’s color and taste.
Many commentators have complained about institutional decay, while others point to changes – such as the advent of reality television and social media – that have coarsened the quality of public discourse.
American producers and the US government complained that American workers were being priced out of jobs because the Yen and D-mark were being held at artificially low levels.
John Connally complained that Japan had a "controlled economy" and did not play by the rules.
Both Duda and Kukiz complained that too many young Poles were leaving the country, and that their country was becoming an empty land of the elderly – a fact that is obvious to anyone who walks down a Polish street.
This is a smart move, and not just because it will help appease the US, as well as European countries that have complained about limited access to the Chinese market, not to mention international financial institutions.
It would threaten the role of London as a financial center, some complained, as if the proposal was meant to apply just in London and not globally.
They then bitterly complained to their people about “Brussels bureaucrats” and their undemocratic ways.
Fearing domestic asset-price bubbles and upward pressure on their currencies from an inward rush of capital, many emerging-economy leaders complained loudly about what Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega called an “international currency war.”
Soldiers march on their stomachs, he said, and complained that his own forces have not been able to renew their equipment or obtain badly needed ammunition for seven years.
India ran a current-account surplus while the Romans complained about the loss of gold, yet the system endured.
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