Sentence examples for chastise from inspiring English sources

To chastise the director for fictions and anachronisms may be to miss the point.

Howard Kendall, on the other hand, found time to chastise the Liverpool players for their horrified reaction, also declaring that Stevens was "just not like that".

This is something to celebrate I think, not to chastise.

On a state-run television channel Mr Khamenei said that the next president should "tenaciously resist pressure from enemies", a presumed reference to nuclear talks with the West.Conservatives chastise Mr Rohani for having co-operated with European governments in 2003 to suspend nuclear enrichment.

Pressed by Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, to chastise North Korea, in public Chinese officials avoided even mentioning the attack on the Cheonan and merely called for restraint on all sides (see article).

He generously declined to challenge their faith, but did chastise them for failing to interpret Genesis "as history", adding: "If you take ideas from outside the Bible and use them to reinterpret what's in the Bible, you're undermining the authority of Scripture".

John Brandon, a director at the America-based Asia Foundation, says America is treading a fine line: wanting to chastise the junta for staging the coup, while not alienating Thailand by making it the "odd man out" of its strategic rebalancing in Asia.The junta really has no China card to play.

Human-rights groups chastise Australia for abandoning its obligation to protect asylum-seekers.

And economics is not his only concern: he promises to chastise China more loudly for its human-rights abuses and to bolster America's armed forces to counteract China's growing military clout.In this section Voting rights, voting wrongs On the beach Aloha, again His last roar?

Mr Barak's fundamentalists wear black hats and ask the Almighty to chastise a godless state.

And he is right to chastise America's elites for indulging in a trite multiculturalism.