Sentence examples for earful from inspiring English sources

To the harassed pedestrian for whom he tinged bell has become a tense precursor to either an earful of abuse or near-death experience, the moron has become the norm.

Shortly after the Dalai Lama's envoys arrived in Beijing, a senior official in Lhasa gave The Economist an earful about the "splittist" behaviour of Tibet's spiritual leader.Hundreds of Tibetans, many of them Buddhist monks and nuns, are believed to remain in custody after a draconian crackdown on dissent in response to the unrest.

So Russia's Vladimir Putin, like China's Hu Jintao, can expect an earful about Iran from President George Bush in the wings of next week's UN meeting.Would bringing Iran to the UN simply give America or others an excuse to take extreme measures, even using military force?

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Philipp Missfelder, a foreign-affairs spokesman for Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats, was with Mr Schröder at the St Petersburg bash (and got an earful for it upon his return).

Barack Obama will get an earful of good news when he visits Mexico next month.

Finally, every generation needs its own interpretation of the great events and individuals of history, and it is 40 years now since the last big Adams biography, by Page Smith.In this section Death defying Only omit The third way (an encore) Tokyo blues Getting an earful Dear Mr President The sounds of summer Strong but themeless ReprintsReaders who take the bait will not be disappointed.

Sigmar Gabriel, the SPD's boss as well as minister of energy and the economy, said this week that he could imagine indexing tax thresholds even without raising other taxes to make up for lost revenues, estimated at €6 billion ($8.3 billion) a year.He immediately got an earful from his party's left-wingers.

This newspaper got an earful from Chinese officials in 2001 for publishing a leader arguing that China was not suited to host the Olympic Games because "the world has no cause to honour a government that governs in this way with a sporting event intended to promote human dignity".

Business types drone on about uncertainty and erratic policy-making.The president is even getting an earful from her own camp.

Regulators say that if they act against the interests of industrialists they can get an earful from politicians.But there is a more optimistic view.