People stopped finding my jokes funny, the queues no longer snaked around the block; people stopped clamouring.
And speculators must take responsibility for their decisions, and stop clamouring for taxpayer money whenever their investments turn bad.
'Don't stop,' she clamoured; she was nearly there, it was in the bag.
As President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said before last December's Copenhagen summit on climate change, "I don't want any gringo asking us to let an Amazon resident die of hunger under a tree".But it is not only gringos who clamour to stop deforestation.
Tony Yates, a professor of economics at Birmingham University and a former Bank insider, says: "Once they've crossed the Rubicon of doing it, what would be to stop the political clamour for using QE to pay for something else?
When it stopped flying, thousands of passengers were left clamouring for seats on the country's smaller airlines, and provincial businessmen were desperate to get cargo out.Once again, Mr Estrada's opponents criticised him for blustering and blundering.
In fact, Harper has only seemed gung-ho about taking down Assad at the G8, when he was in a lion's den of world leaders clamouring for Assad's demise (although he still stopped short of advocating arming the rebels).
The hawks bay for blood: address Putin with force, the only language Russia understands, they clamour, and make clear to Iran that if it doesn't stop enriching uranium, its nuclear facilities will be bombed to smithereens.
We need worldwide clamour to stop Reed Elsevier promoting the sales of arms and to save the credibility of its journals, especially the Lancet.
The prime minister will also be pleased that the power-hungry tycoons clamouring for the creation of a co-operation council have for the time being stopped demanding a devaluation.
