It is in favour of building national champions and does not want to miff an important coalition partner.
From the economist.com
In 2005, MIFF countries contained fewer than 15m people living on less than $1 a day, not even 1% of the world's poorest.
From the economist.com
The MIFF phenomenon is not entirely new.
From the economist.com
One only hopes that the problems with the venues and the projection can be sorted out before MIFF gets under way this year.
From the smh.com.au
What does miff me about the Incredible 4G is that it's ostensibly meant to be a music-friendly device, but it's stuck with a rather wimpy speaker on its rear end.
From the techcrunch.com
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Cause to be annoyed; "His behavior really miffed me"
Huff: a state of irritation or annoyance
A small argument, quarrel; A state of being offended; to offend slightly; to become slightly offended
An image format used with both the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick suites of image processing programs. It can be used on any platform that supports either ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick.