Sentence examples for pointed rebuke from inspiring English sources

Rejecting the emergency talks amounts to a pointed rebuke to China.

His remarks drew a pointed rebuke from the Palestinian leadership, which angrily noted that Mr. Romney had failed to mention the years of trade restrictions imposed by Israel.

In his baseball cap and faded jeans, with a thermos of Heineken at his side, he seemed a pointed rebuke to Ivory Tower decorum.

In a pointed rebuke to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former President Mohammad Khatami warned against conduct that could jeopardize Iran's security and territorial integrity.

Instead he sees it as a "pointed rebuke of both Mrs. Clinton's and President Bush's misplaced fealty to our terrorist-enabling 'ally,' Pervez Musharraf".

Congress issued a pointed rebuke after representatives from the Big Three flew to Washington in private jets to plead for money the first time.

In two Texas death penalty cases, the court issued unusually pointed rebukes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which sits in New Orleans and has jurisdiction over federal court appeals originating in Texas.

Mrs. Clinton was all icy stares and pointed rebukes, while avoiding the sort of prickly reactions that hurt Mr. Obama in his first debate against Mitt Romney in 2012 and were devastating to Al Gore in his initial debate against George W. Bush in 2000.

It would be hard to imagine a more powerful, pointed, passionate rebuke to Al Qaeda's brand of twisted Islamism than for an open-hearted cultural and religious institution representing the tolerant, democratic Muslims of New York to be part of the risen World Trade Center.

The majority used unusually pointed language to rebuke Attorney General John Ashcroft, saying he had overstepped his authority in trying to block enforcement of the state law, Oregon's Death With Dignity Act.

While Mr. Bush was having tea at King Abdullah's lavish ranch, with its crystal chandeliers, date palm trees and exquisite collection of the finest Arabian horses in the world, the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, was at the ministry in Riyadh, delivering a pointed, if polite, rebuke to the president.