Exempel på chafed

• For some time the congress had chafed under what it perceived as the president's excessive powers.

• More and more, both churchmen and philosophers chafed irritably with early medieval practices of text setting.

• Married women, despite their legal position as dependants, similarly chafed at being treated as children rather than as rational adults.

• Others chafed at the way a restrictive statute intruded upon the individual's freedom to construct a life according to private dictates rather than the requirements of the state.

• He never chafed nor fretted after the fashion of smaller men.

• This was customary among some canoeists, who found that the jacket chafed and hampered movement if it was worn over the shoulders.

• I chafed against that very often, and without much success.

• But it had been so hard that it had chafed her daughter's shoulders.

• I have wanted to get something done, and have chafed at the long delay and the great expense in having to listen to every conceivable kind of objector.

• He chafed somewhat under military discipline in the battalion, and actually left school for a short while because of this.

• Burchfield was an unflagging advocate for the virtues of watercolors, and chafed at the popular misconception of them as fragile and impermanent.

• In a related case, several other inmates described the way in which the handcuffs burned and chafed their skin during their placement on the post.

• If it had been suspended by the shoulders, its weight would have likely exhausted (and chafed) its wearer.

• Though compliant, he chafed and built up a grudge that he would never relinquish.

• Army commanders chafed at what they took to be inadequate and incompetent government support of military efforts to end the rebellion.