Sentence examples for firm rebuke from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, as happened on yesterday, the result is a firm rebuke.

Young was forced to withdraw his remarks after a firm rebuke from Downing Street.

The report was a firm rebuke of those actions, which Mr. Comey has tried for months to defend.

Seemingly against the trend of Arab politics, voters inflicted a firm rebuke on Islamists and instead gave victory to the secularist coalition known as Nidaa Tounes.

Still, when Philippakis offers a friendly but firm rebuke – "I love Noel G, but I don't give a fuck about 12 years.

In a firm rebuke to President Bush over Cuba policy, the Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to ease travel restrictions on Americans seeking to visit the island.

Moreover, attempts by some major charities to advocate on national poverty issues, in the UK and US, have been met with firm rebukes from government watchdogs, prompting NGO chief executives to batten down the hatches and concentrate on building political relationships and financial stability.

For me, the firmest rebukes these days come from a beautiful eight-volume Folio Society edition of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".

Mr. Warner then personally broke the news to Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, and the next day the Armed Services Committee voted to approve a firm legislative rebuke to the president's plan to reinterpret the Geneva Conventions.

In what is being characterized as a demotion -- or at least a firm-handed rebuke -- a 21st Century Fox spokesperson said Tuesday that Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes will report to James and Lachlan Murdoch after their 84-year-old father, Rupert Murdoch, steps down as CEO on July 1.

"It's a firm and clear rebuke against Putin's anti-L.G.B.T. legislation and people who support it," William Lee Adams, the editor-in-chief of WiwiBloggs.com, the Internet's most-read Eurovision Web site, said.