Prompted by scathing rebukes at a Senate hearing on Monday, Air Force Secretary James G. Roche today vowed to "look deeper" into the actions of top officials at the Air Force Academy and issued criteria by which they could be punished for failing to address the difficulties women cadets faced in reporting sexual assaults.
The axiom that the customer is always right never seemed to have been aired at Dobell's, and the staff of impassive buffs had a nice line in withering stares or scathing rebukes for daft requests or uninformed purchases – or for any luckless soul who stumbled on to the premises unaware that it was a specialist record shop, and asked for something in the charts.
What if Ms. Merkin had written a scathing rebuke of her brother?
Four months later, investigators published a scathing rebuke, saying residents' constitutional rights had been violated, and threatened legal action if Texas did not resolve the problems.
"The cases were contested bitterly". The judge imposed "heavy fines" and a "scathing rebuke" to the speeding drivers, who didn't include the president.
In a 1980 performance video, "Free, White and 21," Ms. Pindell wore whiteface to deliver a scathing rebuke of art-world racism.
Take, as just one, the ditching in 2006 of MasterCard, FIFA's long-term credit-card partner, for Visa a decision which drew a scathing rebuke from a New York judge.
But much of the frustration of two years ago has cooled, and the vote on Tuesday, overshadowed by a contest for governor and make-or-break Congressional races, seemed more an act of quiet rebellion than a scathing rebuke.
Justice Ginsburg's wee-hours dissent drew on the district court's ruling to issue a scathing rebuke to the Fifth Circuit and, by implication, to the six justices who refused to lift the Fifth Circuit's stay.
Sociologist Alice Goffman delivered perhaps the biggest mic-drop of the week, in her unequivocal, scathing rebuke of police who disproportionately target black teenagers, and the white people who enable them: "Maybe you're saying, 'They're committing crimes!
A fragile peace pact between the government and Britain's top banks has fractured as the Bank of England's governor, Mervyn King, delivered a scathing rebuke to top financiers for taking big bonuses while exploiting "gullible or unsuspecting" customers.
