Sentence examples for famous complaint from inspiring English sources

Henry Kissinger's famous complaint about not having one single number to ring in Europe is likely to be made less frequently.

(It is to "The Secret History" that we owe the Empress's famous complaint that Nature had granted to womankind only three orifices by which to be satisfied).

Notwithstanding James's reputation for overworking his material — "he chewed more than he bit off," goes the famous complaint — you never have the feeling that he is wasting the reader's time.

At a July campaign event in Keene, New Hampshire, she evoked Warren Buffett's famous complaint that he is taxed at a lower rate than his secretary: "It offends our values as a nation when an investment manager making fifty million dollars can pay a lower tax rate on her earned income than a teacher making fifty thousand dollars pays on her income".

This also somewhat alleviates Kripke's famous complaint against counterpart theory.

There is also a famous complaint voiced by Saul Kripke (Kripke 1972: 344 45, note 13).

Hume makes his famous complaint about writers who move from is-claims to ought-claims in the context of discussing Premise 4. The problem, he claims, is that "this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation", which is "entirely different" from other relations and therefore not inferable from them (T 469).

White House press secretary Jay Carney mocked Fox News correspondent Ed Henry on Thursday over his famous complaint about the White House press' lack of access to President Obama's golf game.