Sentence examples for has been bluntly from inspiring English sources

It's true the U.S. human rights record is far from perfect, and presidential preaching — from Wilson to Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush — often has been bluntly rejected.

Mr. Hackett has been bluntly dismissive of Mr. Bush, saying the United States should have focused on capturing Osama bin Laden instead of invading Iraq so quickly.

Tony Blair's claim that his Cabinet colleagues were fully aware of his determination to deal with Saddam Hussein has been bluntly called into question by devastating testimony from two of his most senior officials.

"When they took their oaths they used derogatory words to insult Chinese people and have been bluntly advocating the independence of Hong Kong".

Since Friday, rebel officials have been bluntly warning reporters that they could face legal action over what they write, and they have singled out certain journalists whose reports they called inaccurate and divisive, though they did not offer specifics.

Mr. Wilson said senior Chinese diplomats in Myanmar had been bluntly critical of the junta's poor economic management and its inability to stem the flow of illicit drugs across the Chinese border.

Since then, senior management have been "let go" and artists have been bluntly told by new owner Guy Hands - a businessman rather than a music man - that they will have to work harder, vowing to overturn "a compensation and management system that does not encourage the right behaviours or reward the right actions".

Clearly too much truth had been bluntly shoved into the brains of the listeners, so the topic had to be shifted to a shiny distraction on the other side of the room.

Sadly, then, I think the answer you need has been made bluntly apparent: What's more important to you, your hair color or this job?

An American special envoy was in Tunis before a European one; another envoy has been talking bluntly to Egypt's president.On January 30th, as the protests in Egypt gathered momentum, America's Hillary Clinton appeared on no fewer than five television programmes to call for an "orderly transition" to full democracy.

But none of the earlier articles has been as bluntly critical of the Army as the essay by Aylwin-Foster, whose assessment is also unusual because it comes from a senior military commander with the closest ally the U.S. government has in Iraq.