excepting

caviling (or cavilling), quibbling

challenging, daring, defying, fighting

conflicting, debating, disputing, hassling, quarreling (or quarrelling), squabbling, wrangling

beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bleating, carping, caterwauling, complaining, crabbing, croaking, fussing, griping, grizzling, grouching, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumping, hollering, keening, maundering [chiefly British], moaning, murmuring, muttering, nagging, repining, screaming, squawking, squealing, wailing, whimpering, whinging (or whingeing) [British], whining, yammering, yawping (or yauping), yowling

balking, gagging, sticking

censuring, criticizing, denouncing

disobeying, rebelling, withstanding

demonstrating

blackballing, blacklisting, excommunicating, ostracizing

banishing, deporting, exiling, expelling, ousting, throwing out

obviating, precluding, preventing, prohibiting

blocking, hindering, impeding, obstructing

ceasing, discontinuing, halting, suspending

deterring, staving off, warding (off)

checking off, disregarding

combing (out), weeding (out)