It settled into a pattern of flaring up every now and then before dying back to a grumble.
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UN's inquiry into the murder of Rafik Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, nine months later, not a grumble was heard from America.
There is not much time to celebrate a victory or grumble over a loss because the next game is around the corner.
Greenish lightning flashed across the ocean darkness, and there was a distant grumble of thunder.
Worse, it has a real impact, because business leaders consistently grumble that a lack of certainty about regulatory and tax policies is impeding investment.
And householders generally grumble a lot if they have to pay extra to have their rubbish collected.
Several mayors we have visited in the past few months also grumble a bit that stimulus money is slow to trickle through the bureaucracy.
Offshore shrimpers, out at sea in bigger boats for weeks at a time, grumble that the inshore fleet steals their baby shrimps before they can grow and head out to sea.
Internally, a few people have been heard to grumble that the company might just be a bit too big.
Whatever Mr Wilson was seeking to say about money in his book, it made him a rich man, although he would occasionally grumble that lawyers, accountants and the taxmen took a large slice of it.
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When he passed his employees in the hall and asked how it was going, they would respond with a critical comment about a client or they would grumble about the amount of work they were juggling.
Others grumble that he is a bad loser who ought to have accepted the verdict on May 1st.
Never again could Americans grumble about being stuck with a candidate who was favored by less than half of voters.
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We Londoners are a resilient lot, however: We like to grumble about the foolishness of the Orbit, but no doubt we will get used to it.
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Real-time bidding has entered the ad world as a mainstream term, even if traditional ad folks grumble about how the science of online ads is crowding out the creativity.
Germans may well grumble, but they will be faced with a fait accompli accepted, almost certainly, by a majority in all the main parties including the opposition Social Democrats.
Property developers grumble that they have to provide the original plan of a building they wish to overhaul.
The Tories' Liberal Democrat coalition partners, already in trouble for abandoning a promise not to raise university-tuition fees, will also grumble.
Guaranteeing a minimum price also means there is no incentive to improve quality, grumble coffee-drinkers, who find that the quality of Fairtrade brews varies widely.
Some venture capitalists privately grumble that Jurvetson is pushing too loudly, too fast for a technology that often looks more like bench science than industrial products.
Some Republicans have predictably begun to grumble about the size of the stimulus package, but here's a question: What would you in the GOP do differently?
But they grumble more and more about contributions for health care taken out of wages, a cost shared equally by employer and employee.
As a result, the Confederation of British Industry, a big-business lobby, worries about underinvestment, and officials at the Bank of England grumble about firms' reluctance to lower hurdles.
Local politicians grumble that its minarets will rise higher than the floodlights of the neighbouring football stadium, a secular city's equivalent of the local cathedral.
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Some current and former employees grumble that the restructuring pain extends beyond the cost cuts, and that Mr. Flanders has created a difficult work environment, requiring employees to file regular reports to him detailing their conflicts with other employees in the company, and sometimes doling out verbal abuse.
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