Diverting cash from rural railways to overcrowded commuter ones may be good for economic growth, but it will provoke howls from those who see the railways as a social service some of them voters in marginal constituencies.
Regardless of China's howls, it knew we were going to make these moves on the trade front.
When the Bowles-Simpson commission suggested raising the retirement age to 69 in 2075, it was met with howls of outrage from unions in particular.
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Faced with EU howls, it had to withdraw a recent invitation to Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur.
The programme-makers apologised, though it did little to silence the howls of protest from religious groups and parents alike.
And it turns out there are similar howls when someone like Webb tries to bear down on inequality within the older generation too.
The proposed cuts have engendered the usual howls of outrage that it will lead to fired teachers, overcrowded classrooms, and sick people dying in the street.
Whenever anything radically new is proposed, such as Daniel Libeskind's cubist spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum, there are howls of protest that it does not fit in.
While this elicits howls of negativity from some, it also explains why interest rates remain low, furthering the market valuation shift to exporters already on a steep upward path.
They are far more likely to close the door on all these horrors, Clinton and Starr and Hyde alike, refuse to venture out to vote, and continue to block their ears to the howls of the press pack as it pads along the street.
Monday's announcement by the board of Alitalia that it was accepting a bid by Air France-KLM provoked howls of outrage from politicians and union leaders over the fire sale price being offered, as well as the impact the sale would have on the economy of Milan, the Italian capital of business.
One hugely affective cue is auditory: Thanks to resonator tubes pumping intake and exhaust sounds into the cabin, the BRZ snarls and burrs and howls like a garage-built retro rod, even when it's accelerating away from a light like an ice-cream truck (0-60 mph in about 6 seconds).
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"It's secret (neibu), " he said, to derisive howls from the assembled reporters.
But it is a reminder that there are 50 shades of grey in the debate over generational inequality - there are the howls of anguish as inequality between the generations is discussed and ideas for redress are broached.
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