Were the boos directed at Mr. Putin, whose intention to return to the presidency in 2012 struck a sour note with some Russians?
But it was his claim that Chief Judge Peter Kidd was not respectful enough of the convicted child molester that really struck a sour note.
The proposed sale of the mansion, which many agree the academy has outgrown, nevertheless struck a sour note with many academy members who regard it as a symbol.
It was not immediately clear how lawmakers were reacting to the amended measure, but one aspect of it struck a sour note among environmentalists.
Richard Clark gets generally good marks for steering Merck through the Vioxx affair, but he struck a sour note last week with the release of a company-funded "outside" investigation into the matter that critics said was a whitewash.
When federal regulators scuttled the planned acquisiton of security software maker Sourcefire by Israeli company Check Point Sofware Technologies last week, it struck a sour note with the venture capital community and analysts.
He's like "uuuuh… jews are.. uh.. well educated..?" A Swedish experiment in social media democracy struck a sour note on Tuesday after the latest average citizen allowed to post a weeks' worth of thoughts to a national Twitter account made comments about Jews that many found objectionable.
It has struck a sour note with Russia's culture ministry however, with its leader Vladimir Medinksy saying the film characters "are not Russians", and that films like it, "filled with a sense of despair and hopelessness over our existence, should not be financed with taxpayers' money".
The project quickly struck a sour note in Pierce County.
Yet unlike the Credit Suisse deal, Barclays struck a sour note with its existing investors right from the start, as its deal was not only more expensive than the one that had been offered to the British government, but dilutive, and offered mainly to the Middle Eastern investors.
