But while rural dwellers in particular chafe at restrictions and heavy-handed enforcement – which has included forced abortions – many in cities are used to the policy and seem largely indifferent, or like the idea of increasing their families but worry about the financial impact.
They chafe at the closing of shops during each of the day's five prayers.
Arresting such a calmly spoken academic risked fuelling even more sympathy abroad for the plight of Uighurs, most of whom are Muslims and many of whom chafe at China's rule in Xinjiang.In this section A canal too far A lone voice silenced ReprintsMuch has changed recently.
For competitors hoping that Mr Snook will chafe under the wing of a state-owned former monopoly (the French government still owns nearly two-thirds of France Telecom, although that will now fall to 54%), it is not good news.
Of course, it is understandable that some professional warriors might chafe at Japan's American-dictated pacifist constitution; and at a victor's interpretation of history that discredited Japan's proud armed forces.
In Xinjiang, in the far north-west, where many members of the ethnic Uighur minority chafe at rule from Beijing, building transport links is also seen as a way to increase national security.
(Uighurs and Tibetans outnumber the Han in Xinjiang and Tibet respectively, where they chafe under Chinese rule).
Fired by stories of jihad, and with the livelihood of smuggling threatened by shoot-first American patrolling of the border, they are said to chafe at being kept from fighting the infidel intruders.Such tensions do boil over.
Xinjiang is the home of a Muslim minority, the Uighurs, who chafe under Beijing's rule.
It is also an unmistakable sign that Protestant opinion is in a febrile state.Some within the DUP still chafe at being in the same administration as Sinn Fein, and they may make more trouble for Mr Robinson in the future.
Ordinary Libyans and Sudanese chafe under American-imposed sanctions that are meant to punish their unpopular leaders.America's way of conducting the peace process has added to such fears.
