He was surrounded by heckling and haranguing on all sides of the house and he stood his ground".
He vowed from the start never to be the general manager, never to subject himself to the continual haranguing from George Steinbrenner.
He was haranguing members of his government, even throwing a water-bottle at one of them.
A Russian soldier at the checkpoint told Tsisana Tabadtadze, a Georgian refugee from South Ossetia who was haranguing him, that he came from Yaroslavl, 250km north-east of Moscow.
Indro Montanelli, one of Italy's most independent-minded commentators, accuses Mr Berlusconi of badgering the Italian people from "an electronic balcony"—a reference to Mussolini's famous habit of haranguing the crowds from the balcony of his palazzo in Rome.
The leaders of Zimbabwe and Namibia took turns haranguing western leaders, especially Britain's Tony Blair, for meddling in the continent, even though southern Africa, much of which is in the grip of famine, depends on foreign help to feed around 14m people.
And she is haranguing her cabinet on the use of performance targets and the importance of decent public services for voters on moderate incomes.Brazil has so far weathered the global economic storm fairly well.
But Mrs Merkel's message appeals to the German mainstream, which wants exactly her brand of centrist and non-confrontational politics, and indeed her.Hence another paradox: Germany's euro-zone partners see Mrs Merkel as endlessly haranguing them to reform, but Germans do not hear Mrs Merkel talking of reforms at home.
Mr Obama, too, has expressed doubts about the benefits of backslapping get-togethers with Republican congressmen: it might harm their careers to be seen with him, he said.Instead, Mr Obama settled on a strategy of haranguing his adversaries loudly, publicly and often.
After haranguing individual ministers for their failure to solve Russia's problems in his nine-month absence, Mr Yeltsin gave a speech to parliament on March 6th in which he denounced his government collectively for having "failed to work without the president shouting at it".
He has made enemies of the businessmen who are needed to drive forward America's recovery, haranguing them as fat cats and speculators.
