Complaining won't change anything.

She does nothing but complain.

All Tom does is complain.

Nothing to be grumpy about there.

Experts pressed for the inclusion of illnesses as questionable as chronic undifferentiated unhappiness disorder and chronic complaint disorder, whose traits included moaning about taxes, the weather, and even sports results.

When the Fund gets the big boys to complain by saying perfectly sensible things, it must be doing something right.

TV channels were not only slow but have also been accused for the lack of adequate attitude in their coverage of the event.

Meanwhile, a group of women provided the latest sign of domestic restiveness by defying the Kingdom s prohibition against women drivers.

The step from here to lamenting the high taxes spent on welfare for immigrants is a but a short one.

Within my adult lifetime, we have moved from the murder of civil rights campaigners in the US to the election of a black president. Nothing to be grumpy about there.

Even if some American officials are irritated by French sales of sophisticated military equipment to Russia, no one has dared to complain openly.

The point about George W. Bush s first term was that despite grumblings and continued vocal opposition, the result of the election of 2000 was generally accepted.

Industrial countries should be happy that developing countries would take greater responsibility for global economic outcomes, rather than simply sulking about their lack of voice and representation.

Perhaps realizing that an entertained and distracted populace is less likely to complain about public policy, the Party has allowed entertainment programming to follow the Western model, lessening the need for micro managed censorship.

That is both because of who Annan is and what the UN has become an institution in which no shortcoming, it seems, goes unrewarded.

But, just as Chávez is worried about rumblings and dissidents in Cuba, the island s leaders are concerned about the news from Caracas they know they cannot survive without Chávez s oil and subsidies.

But, despite the grumbling, India s city dwellers like those elsewhere do not want to sacrifice the enormous gains of the past few decades to ineffective or corrupt governance.

So, while I will continue to complain about the prices that I face when I travel in Europe, I understand that the prices that matter for trade are more competitive than those that I see when I pay for my lunch.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has regularly complained about the damaging consequences of excess currency volatility, and has called for exchange rates and international monetary conditions to be at the top of the G 20 agenda when France assumes the group s presidency this November.