The appeals court ruling in London was received by People's Mujahedeen supporters with bitter rebukes of Britain's Labor government for having imposed the ban and with adulation for the 35 members of the British Parliament, from across the political spectrum, who led the court challenge.
In Afghanistan, where American troops are also deployed in an increasingly bitter war, the election brought a rebuke.
And in fact, while Coburn has rebuked Obama and Reid, his most bitter foe in Washington is Grover Norquist, the conservative power broker and anti-tax crusader who runs Americans for Tax Reform.
Merciless toward opponents, including all he chose to call liberal Catholics, Veuillot finally drew a rebuke from Pope Pius IX for his "bitter zeal".
Richard Kroehling, the filmmaker, remembers reading the editorial as he sat by his woodstove, and becoming so angry that he wrote a letter to the editor, a rebuke that portioned special scorn for "Atlas Shrugged," that "bitter Bible of the extreme right".
Updated, 11 07 p.m. | A divided Republican Party erupted into open and bitter warfare on Thursday as its two previous presidential nominees delivered an extraordinary rebuke of its current front-runner, Donald J. Trump, warning that his election could put the United States and its democratic system in peril.
This is not a complaint; you could equally point to "The Flaying of Marsyas" — as fluent a painting as Titian ever produced, but streaked with the vengeful and the bitter, and thus with the suggestion that old men have a right to rebuke the lustres of their youth.
The song sounds like a direct rebuke to Tony Blair, with its references to wives waving goodbye to soldiers and bitter branches spreading out.
In a further rebuke to Poland's increasingly anti-EU positions, Brussels returned former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk – a bitter adversary of Poland's ruling party – to a second term as president of the European Council in March, against the strenuous objections of Warsaw.
