Sentence examples for modest rebuke from inspiring English sources

Thus, it was no modest rebuke when, in August 1999, Tenet suspended Deutch's clearances, making him the first high-level government official to be publicly forbidden access to secrets since 1954, when J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, was formally declared a security risk and banished to private life.

But the state court's modest rebuke of Vecchione was nothing like what was to come: Vecchione was accused by a man he'd convicted of armed robbery of having withheld a cooperation agreement with a key witness at trial.

Slim's nationalism, his humility, and his relatively modest personal habits stand as a kind of rebuke to the image that Mexicans typically have of their oligarchs.

But while that may sound modest, "Drunk Enough" also flings a polemical critique of decades of American foreign policy and a stinging rebuke of the lack of British protest.

ReprintsThe rebuke was disingenuous.

He was expecting a rebuke.

As a rebuke to Biggie?

Not a word of rebuke.

His son issued a rebuke.

There was no rebuke.

No rebuke came from the government.