THE complaints sound familiar.
Their complaints sound much like those anywhere: falling standards, growing indiscipline, violence and so on.
Some of his complaints sound petty: a few whites have snubbed him, he claims, and he dislikes hearing Afrikaans spoken in his chambers.Other gripes are more serious.
Medicare officials have made some missteps in conducting the bidding, but many of the complaints sound like sour grapes from companies whose prices were too high to compete.
The antacids I prescribed brought little relief, but my mind was so fixed that her persistent complaints sounded to me like a nail scratching a chalkboard.
From the vantage point of our own auditory world, with its jets, jackhammers, HVAC systems, truck traffic, cellphones, horns, decibel-bloated restaurants and gyms on acoustical steroids, Schopenhauer's mid-19th century complaints sound almost quaint.
In the face of overwhelming, credible evidence that the campaign has been conducted fairly, their complaints sound suspiciously like efforts to discredit in advance an imminent Sandinista victory at the polls.
The Occupy Wall Street protesters disagree with the conservative Tea Party movement on the nature of America's problems, but at times, their complaints sound remarkably similar.
However, their arguments too often point to concern about financial stability for theatrical filmmaking and the competition issue between cinema and home entertainment, but then resort to negative claims about the artistic integrity of these films to justify shutting them out, since the pure business complaints sound less authentic when pursuing festival and award season bans.
Perhaps this is why my client's complaints sound a consistent theme about loan modifications.
