Word: complainer
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...President Bush normally takes the absolutist position in the war on terror - on Gitmo, on wiretaps, on enemy combatants - and lets everyone else complain that he is too hard over, too much at war. But here the roles are reversed: the president is dug in on the deal and the public, at least as represented by the Congress, is taking the absolutist, no surrender, position...
...inner-city America. The apparel has been banned from Massachusetts courthouses as of January. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has pressured store owners to stop selling the merchandise, at one point threatening to send city officials into shops to seize the shirts, provoking the American Civil Liberties Union to complain that he was stepping on the freedom of expression...
...decide how much time criminals should spend in jail, an idea that would be funny if it wasn’t so frightening. After all, if legislators are making sentencing decisions, then the facts of each case, along with any mitigating or exacerbating circumstances, are rendered irrelevant. Legislators may complain about justices legislating from the bench, but in imposing stricter sentencing guidelines, lawmakers are judging from the legislature. Judge Cashman faced a tough decision, but he was the most qualified individual to make it, certainly more qualified than politicians in a far-away assembly house...
...might complain that the pace lends itself to superficiality. But though the novel may not match Malcolm’s epic ambitions—at times the plot is forced and the loose ends tied too neatly—its shortcomings do little damage to the readability of the novel...
...going to complain about the environment, you're not going to start with chocolate," she says. Of course, not everyone finds the sweet smell so enticing. Laura Jacobson, 22, who works about a mile east of the factory, says the chocolate odor can be foul in summer, when temperatures rise and "it mixes with the river smell. Ugh. It's nauseating," she groans...