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Examples of moan


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All around people cried and moaned.
We are agitating for positive change, rather than moaning about isolated problems.
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Moans and groans and the shaking of a head.
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There has been moaning and groaning, but people have carried on.
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I am opposed to the individuals who go about moaning about conditions which they say are going to pull us down as a nation.
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I have no moans of estimating the expenditure incurred by the parties, none of which was borne by the public revenue.
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Let me for a few moments examine what such a statement moans.
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During my days in local government, we always moaned about never knowing from one moment to the next what was required of us.
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By no other moans is it to be expected that justice can be done to the flying man.
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Often when workers are aggrieved they go on moaning, eventually moaning to the management, and then comes a breaking point.
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We may assume that suspension moans that in the view of the court the business has been conducted in an improper and illegal fashion.
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What they really mean is that they are going to increase wages, and that moans an increase in the cost of production.
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There are comparatively few complaints and comparatively few moans; but lots of good experiences.
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Manufacturers are whining and moaning about a high pound, saying that they cannot export.
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One is tired of accusations against the miners, and of listening to the wails and moans of the people who cannot get coal.
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We can continue moaning to this place, which takes not a blind bit of notice.
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I have been moaning about it for years, and hoping that we can get something better in its place.
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He is moaning, yet we are taking action.
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Will he simply refuse to listen to moaning minnies who put an alternative viewpoint?
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Everyone gets the notice and everyone starts moaning about the notice.
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Nonetheless, something more is required than cash limits for workers in the public sector coupled with ministerial moaning at the private sector.
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Instead of moaning about the north-east, we should be playing on those strengths.
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We have heard the ritual moans about time and the ritual synthetic anger and references to an anti-democratic guillotine.
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They are moaning that the exchange rate is rising.
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I am extremely glad that recruiting is good and that we have not heard moans and groans about recruiting.
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They are always groaning and moaning about too much public expenditure, but they lost an opportunity here to add to the public purse.
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All we hear, all the moans and groans, are on behalf of people at the top of the ladder, the people earning £8,000, £9,000, £10,000, £20,000 or £30,000 a year.
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I was rather upset by the moans and groans about the new training scheme.
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What has taken place as a result of the moaning and groaning of the big bookmakers is most certainly a conspiracy against the public interest.
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He swept all that aside in his catalogue of moans and groans.
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All this moaning about structural weaknesses and past mistakes, that is nothing more than a lament now.
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Gentleman will, on reflection, understand what the expression "as soon as possible" moans.
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Is it not about time that they started to spread the good word about the national lottery and stopped moaning and complaining about it?
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I do not need him, or any of those who are moaning, to tell me about the urgency of the problem of liquidity.
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What a minority of them moaned about was that it should be so well-paid.
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If we are not moaning about the weather, we are always saying that the grass is greener on the other side.
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We are going to help them by moans of this duty.
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Should not that be put into the balance against the agricultural rents he is now moaning about?
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The "gap" moans that for so many weeks the unemployed person must remain with no wage, no compensation, and nothing with which to obtain food.
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I do not think that surtax payers are moaning, but it is a fact that we should take into account.
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She had no moans, and she was starving.
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All that we get are moans, gripes and complaints.
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We are always moaning about this drift from the rural areas, and many people talk about the loss of amenities in the rural areas.
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The answer is that every business man moans about his rates.
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No check is carried out on such arrangements until someone such as myself telephones and moans about something.
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Indeed, one gets tired of some of the moaning we hear about price increases from people whose own actions make such increases quite inevitable.
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I have not been called a moaning minnie before.
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He urges us to stop moaning, and lists the 26 things that we should be grateful for.
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My father started farming in 1896, and moaned that what he had saved in 1904 was not worth a quarter of its value in 1917.
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I believe it's there, and it's no good moaning about it.
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In the main, the engineers have not moaned about that.
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Although there has been moaning and complaining, except in just one instance there has not been any real confrontation on the differentials issue.
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There is a great deal of unjustified moaning about the uniform business rate.
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We take up the individual complaints and the moans and groans of the average soldier.
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In this sense, moaning and groaning solves nothing in politics.
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Therefore, there should be no whining or moaning now.
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During the war the wailing and moaning of the air raid sirens was universally regarded as one of our greatest inflictions.
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They take him their grumbles and moans, and he seldom receives a kind or friendly word.
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Bus and train users should be the ones who are moaning.
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If we asked that question, perhaps there would be fewer moans.
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Why, then, should there be all this moaning about interference?
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I observed that a characteristic of north-easterners, or northerners, was that they were not moaning minnies.
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We are not talking about isolated incidents, or about moaning constituents; we are talking about a day-in, day-out grind.
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We have constant moaning that the number on the waiting list now is greater than it was 16 years ago.
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We ought not to pass it without knowing what it moans.
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I believe it is there, and it is no good moaning about it.
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He agrees with the decision, but he is moaning about the way in which it was taken.
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They would then be doing a better service than by moaning and groaning because this increase has been imposed.
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Mums and dads were exchanging the moans and groans as well as the happy times and the funny stories that children inevitably provide.
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We hear moaning and groaning and sniping and griping, but never any congratulations on the achievements of those who work in the national health service.
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If that sounds like a list of moans and groans, that is because it is.
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Much of the moaning and groaning that we hear from other areas is based on a pessimistic approach to their local economy.
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I am moaning and groaning because it does not go far enough.
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Gone are the old moans from industry that schools do not produce the type of people that it wants.
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Does he agree that those healthy estimates confound the moaning minnies and pessimists who constantly claim that our reserves are running out?
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All these little excuses, moans and twitters of apprehension are not what the debate is about, and they are not worthy of the main argument.
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An opportunity should be given to these men, and they should not be thrown upon the streets without moans of earning a livelihood.
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At the present time he cannot get a house anywhere within his moans.
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The housewife goes home moaning to her husband.
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Let us fill the houses that are unoccupied before we start moaning for a bigger building programme.
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We would counter those moans with our views about equity.
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He made it clear, for instance, that the joint local authority board would by no moans coincide with a hospital area.
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Despite the moans, we have retained a sense of fairness.
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In the examination he cried and moaned as if in acute pain, but he could not verbalize these affective signs of distress.
Meanwhile, this figure shows himself to be a particular kind of lover, one obsessed "with tears distilled by moans" and "obsequies and true love's rite".
They were drunk and paid no attention to her screams and moans.
On this track, moans combine with metallic, reverbed clicking and clattering, and gradually these give way to creaking and stranger vocalising.
Nowadays moaning about the present state and the future prospects of the discipline seems to be the distinctive mark of economic historians.
She did "not respond verbally" but would "respond to painful stimuli with moans".
We laughed and uttered sympathetic moans.
Unable to speak, she moaned.
He again apologises, this time for his long moan, and asks advice.
Therefore, each technologically crafted cry and artificially extended joyous moan ironically testifies to the unavoidable and primitive dictates of human physiology.
In the early modern period, the ceremony of secular justice demanded that the guilty should cry and moan in their punishments.
The poem is really just another moan over the present, disguising itself as public comment.
The nurses noted, however, that she would moan softly when they changed her dressings.
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