Unspoken, the clear reproach was that the Soviet state did not do the same.
But the Center for Reproductive Rights argues that the way the law addresses fetal tissue donation is a clear effort to reproach women who chose to end a pregnancy.
Indeed, I can resist a clear and distinct perception, but only at the risk of 'feeling an inward pain and the secret reproaches of reason' (Search 1.2, OC 1 55; LO 10).
That helped NATO's summit in April decide that putting Georgia on a clear track to membership was premature.Georgia's friends might rally more enthusiastically behind it if the parliamentary elections were not just clean, but seen to be beyond reproach.
Depending on your taste, that's either a tribute or a reproach.
Is it true?The comparison is both a compliment and a reproach.
Now his search is over, a challenge and a reproach to ours.
To a multiethnic association such as the Commonwealth, South Africa was not only an anomaly but a reproach.
"Which I mean as an observation, not as a reproach," he hurried to add.
("I told you I would stay," is a refrain with a hint of reproach).
This could have a moral undertone of being a reproach towards destiny, or towards God.
