The calls were constant: a Ukrainian playing basketball in France in need of a pep talk, a Frenchman in Bologna deserving a lecture, a Croat in Trieste begging for a bed.
Senators Mark Warner and Dianne Feinstein each delivered well-deserved lectures to the executives from the three companies present at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
If the instructor has taken points off that you thought you deserved, go back into your lecture notes and text books and make a list of supporting evidence to have with you for the meeting.
Some negative reviews focused on the length of the novel, such as one that called it "a whale of a book" and another that said "anyone who is taken in by it deserves a stern lecture on paper-rationing".
So Francis sought out the wolf and gave the animal a stern lecture, telling him he deserved to be hanged for his crimes.
When I suggested that Assad may not have deserved all that attention, Kerry gave me a little lecture.
She says many Americans at these lectures tell her to her face that the Japanese deserved it because they were the aggressors at Pearl Harbor.
The student said the grade must be incorrect because he had turned up to all the lectures – as if simply regurgitating what I had taught him deserved a 70+ grade.
Students who were punished accepted varying degrees of blame, ranging from one who said he warranted nothing more than a stern lecture, to another who said his suspension was fully deserved.
More cruelly, in a later scene Tom castigates James for letting his marriage fall apart ("You didn't deserve her, James," he lectures, "and that's why she left you"), although here again it was James's depression resulting from his family's dissolution that opened fissures in his marriage.
She went on to give me the lecture of my life about not letting others boss me around, about how I deserved to be treated, and how I needed to stand up for myself. .
