Word: chafe
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...restaurants I visited, opinion was evenly divided. Although most Iraqis chafe at the constant reminders of the U.S. military presence - checkpoints, patrols, helicopters and jets overhead - many believe American arms have helped bring something approaching normality to much of the country. "I don't like the 2011 deadline. The Americans should stay as long as necessary," said Ziad Mohammed, a Sunni laborer. Fateh Hilli, a Shi'ite shopkeeper, disagreed: "The American presence is a national humiliation and should be removed at once...
...Many of the Al-Madinah girls willingly accept the limits, even when they chafe: "Allah comes before basketball, before a million dollars and before everything," says team captain Fatima Benfakiah, 18, who moved to New York from Algeria at age 2. Benfakiah admits that living with restrictions can be frustrating, at times - "It's not fair, but it is something you can get over because this life is not eternal; it is the afterlife that counts...
...Campus progressives chafe at the idea of rabble-rousing, controversial, and inflammatory events staged to criticize politically-correct excesses. Bigots like Ahmadinejad do little harm—few American college students share his opinions, and he already lacks credibility in most people’s eyes. But firebrands like Horowitz who bring legitimate—if often overblown and rhetorically inappropriate—criticisms to bear against the academic left pose a much greater threat: to expose to more observers the shaky foundations upon which most postmodern prejudices are bulwarked...
...from its list of states that sponsor terrorism and lift the corresponding economic sanctions, which ban the North from receiving low-interest loans from the World Bank.Still, Kim Jong Il may be crossing his fingers behind his back—and if he is, they must be starting to chafe. The U.S. should not take North Korea on its word, considering the North’s proclivity towards breaking promises. Consider the history: Pledging to pursue nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, the North signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 1985, yet it didn’t allow inspectors from...
...while many Golanese Druze carry Israeli ID cards, most refuse to become Israeli citizens, either out of loyalty to Damascus, or out of concern that they might be seen as traitors if the territory is returned to Syria. Abu Shaheen and his neighbors also chafe under the restrictions of a closed border that cuts them off from family, friends and country. One of Abu Shaheen's daughters married a Syrian cousin and moved to the suburbs of Damascus earlier this year, and he doesn't know when he'll see her again...