Sentence examples for by griping from inspiring English sources

But in this city, traditional bragging rights have been replaced by griping rights.

The Smithsonian Institution has been roiled by griping from staffers, historians and academics that its secretary, Lawrence Small, is Disneyfying and dumbing down.

During the show's big-band night, Mr. Cowell criticized one contestant's performance of "Someone to Watch Over Me" by griping that it had no relevance to music today.

Fans who don't like admitting that their relationship with their favorite team is business, not personal, try to muddy the picture by griping about how expensive it is to go to a game, order DirecTV's Sunday Ticket or wear an authentic piece of N.F.L. apparel.

If you put yourself on camera, they would immediately shoot you down, like, 'Who the hell do you think you are?' " When Moore gets annoyed by people griping about his money — his nice apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the private school that his daughter attended — he is not being hypocritical.

(The assertion in an Economix post last week that there was "a great deal of chatter in Washington" against Ms. Yellen is puzzling – griping by White House aides was directed at the administration's "frenemies" on the left who forced Lawrence Summers to withdraw from consideration, and not at Ms. Yellen).

And although there has been a lot of griping by companies about a putative government crackdown on allowing in highly skilled foreigners to work here and make up for lacunae in domestic talent, there was a substantial 13% increase in work visas granted to higher skilled individuals from abroad.

The move comes after griping by investor Daniel Loeb about the mangement at Sony Pictures.

Or maybe football managers are just snides by nature, whether griping over a contentious spot kick or solidarity with political prisoners in Spain.

The Montana Senate race also shows how liberal groups have learned to play the outside money game despite griping by Democratic officials about the influence of such organizations.

Jerry Fraser of The Boston Globe was critical in his review of the book, and wrote that "a book that sets out to be 'everything you need to know to travel safer by air' winds up griping about how the FAA reimburses employees for moving expenses and conducts crude management-training seminars".