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In both the German and the Japanese cases, the already-existing industrial powers complained that there was some sort of nefarious and unfair mechanism behind the newcomer’s advantages.
Palestinians complained that the international community acted unjustly, simply because they were unhappy with the result of a free and fair election in the Palestinian territories, which Hamas won overwhelmingly.
But critics on the right have complained that Obama’s approach to foreign policy has been weak, too apologetic, and overly reliant on soft power.
Other critics on the left have complained that he has not been able to get Congress to pass a tough energy bill before the Copenhagen conference on climate change.
As Chen Deming, China’s Minister of Commerce, recently complained, “The United States’ issuance of dollars is out of control and international commodity prices are continuing to rise.”
For decades, Western experts have complained about the failure of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to learn the value of collective security from Europe's post-War experience.
But the mother never complained.
For years, Germans complained that France was incapable of domestic reform, and that the French did not understand the meaning of “federalism” in the context of the European Union.
CAMBRIDGE – Labor advocates have long complained that international trade agreements are driven by corporate agendas and pay little attention to the interests of working people.
Back then, Europeans complained that low interest rates in America were driving global inflation; now low US interest rates are blamed for driving irresponsible asset-price booms.
Microsoft’s critics have complained endlessly about this, claiming that the browser’s integration into the operating system drove out inherently superior software solutions.
For years, they have complained that children (and adults) reject healthy food in favor of less-healthy food that tastes good.
Women complained of not being heard, of men disappearing after work to tinker in the garage or zone out in front of the TV.
A few years ago, when the US Federal Reserve embarked on yet another round of “quantitative easing,” some emerging-market leaders complained loudly.
Thus, if anything, emerging-market leaders should have complained about European austerity, not about US quantitative easing.
The Israel Defense Forces has often complained that it is fighting an asymmetric war in which it ties its own hands by complying with international humanitarian law, while its opponent can ignore those laws and launch attacks against Israeli civilians.
For example, the Nobel laureate Ronald H. Coase has complained that microeconomics is filled with black-box models that fail to study the actual contractual relations between firms and markets.
India’s national security adviser recently complained that his office was targeted yet again by hackers.
She complained that she was “too famous,” “too active,” and “too stressed” at the time, and she provided extensive details about how Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing, persecuted the Ye family and how the Ye children went to prison.
Meanwhile, Argentina complained that other Mercosur countries’ policies were magnifying its economic challenges.
While American leaders, including Obama, have complained about free riders, the US has long taken the lead in providing key global public goods: security, a stable international reserve currency, relatively open markets, and stewardship of the Earth’s commons.
While US presidents and defense secretaries have sometimes complained about its allies’ low levels of defense spending, they have always understood that alliances are best viewed as stabilizing commitments – like friendships, not real-estate transactions.
In October 2007, Cherkesov (now chief of one of the most obscure and powerful services, the Federal Anti-Drug Administration) published another essay in which he lamented his colleagues’ degradation: warriors had turned into traders, he complained.
Yes, the country’s leaders have sometimes complained about the heavy burden of subsidizing North Korea; but, until now, they had never shown such open disgust with the North’s performance.
The US has complained about China’s current-account (trade) surpluses; but, as a percentage of GDP, Germany’s surplus is even greater.
According to Goldberg, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton privately complained that “if you say that you are going to strike, you have to strike.”
General Maxwell Taylor, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also believed that the risk of nuclear war was low, and he complained that the US let the Soviet Union off too easily.
So anti-pact activists have complained that Colombia is anti-union because it does not protect union members from rebel violence.
The Cost of the Gender GapWorking women throughout the world have long complained of the unfairness implied by lower pay than what men receive.
Indeed, I have complained so loudly and vociferously about the problems of globalization that many have wrongly concluded that I belong to the anti-globalization movement.
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