chafed

Charter, DirecTV and other distribution executives have chafed at Disney’s efforts to bypass distributors to offer its programming directly to consumers.

I didn’t mind the work, necessarily, but I chafed at how difficult my classmates made the task at hand.

But Ms. Buzbee chafed at Mr. Lewis’s plans to separate The Post’s newsroom into segments, according to two people familiar with her thinking, and the pair quickly reached an impasse.

Yet even that laxity proved too constraining for Saret, who chafed at being hemmed in, often to the point of self-sabotage.

But not everyone thinks Carter’s decisions are the best path, and some have chafed over his power to demand change from the perch of his bench.