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Blatter is said, rather, to have been wounded by the worldwide media ridicule and criticism, including in his comfortable Zurich home turf, by the heated contempt from European football associations and the rumblings of sponsors concerned, as ever, with the impact on their own brands.
Uzbekistan's practice of sending forced labourers to pick the cotton harvest causes a furore among right groups abroad every year, but now there are rumblings of discontent from within the country.
In an interview on the eve of the final he showed rumblings of discontent about sharing a surname with one of the world's most famous footballers: "For years, no one knows who I am, and then after few World Cup games, everyone says I am the other Baggio.
Moldovan authorities have also had to contend with separatist rumblings from a Turkic minority, the Gagauz, and granted them special autonomous status in a 1994 agreement.
You may wish to place money on Radiohead being among those springing new music upon the world with no notice, given the rumblings along the group's tectonic plates.
Still more ominously, seismic rumblings of discontent have been heard from the National Trust, a charitable titan with 3.7m members.For all that and though this might sound odd David Cameron's coalition government should be just as worried about the quiet anxiety of folk like Mr Emberson and Mr Knowles.
Angry voices on the left have accused Maxime Verhagen, the CDA chairman, of trading principles for budget cuts by accepting Mr Wilders's help, and there are similar rumblings from within his own party.Mr Verhagen is convinced he can ride the storm.
"Security hearings that focus exclusively on Muslim Americans serve only to amplify the rumblings of Islamophobia that seem to become louder and crazier by the day," concurred Eugene Robinson, another of the Post's columnists.It is indeed hard to find much to like in Mr King.
This time it was Merck, a pharmaceuticals giant, which told the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC) that it had never actually collected $14 billion in revenues which it had recorded as coming from one of its subsidiaries.Mr Bush also faces rumblings about his own corporate dealings.
Yet in the past four months, six of the 59 that existed a year ago have been pushed into rescue mergers.In this section Greenstanding There's a recession on, you know Today, Strasbourg; next, the world Sinking assets Dunlending Glimmers of hope, forecasts of gloom Rumblings in quangoland Who runs Britain?
Thanks to the crisis in the euro zone, many of the EU's economies remain mired in near-recession conditions almost seven years after the first rumblings of global financial trouble.
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"Rumblings" functions as a noun , often plural, describing ongoing background activity. This activity is frequently of a negative or concerning nature, such as "rumblings of discontent". Ludwig AI affirms its correct usage.
Expression frequency: Very common
