Sentence examples for public reproach from inspiring English sources

To do nothing is to invite public reproach.

As one intimately familiar with the limits of public reproach, Mr. Melancon (pronounced meh-LAW-sawn) is not alone.

For as much as Tagliabue's decision was a very public reproach of Goodell's handling of the case, that is a long-term win for the league.

Their private affairs - what they shopped for, where they chose to live, whom they dated - attracted public scrutiny and public reproach.

By Wednesday, members of Parliament, newspaper editorials and Pakistan's raucous political talk shows were calling for an explanation and challenging the military and intelligence establishment, institutions previously immune to public reproach.

Venezuelan authorities have sent fighter jets roaring over the protesters' heads in the city, prompting the state governor — a longtime Chávez loyalist — to criticize Maduro in a rare public reproach from within the ranks of their United Socialist Party.

The public reproaches are perhaps the inevitable response to a Catholic audience "that is increasingly intolerant of the ostentation of lifestyles that are shamelessly immoral," said the Rev. Antonio Sciortino, editor in chief of the Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana.

The chances of receiving an appointment to a new office are not so many, or so enticing, as to bewilder many minds; and if they are, the aberrations from duty are so easily traced, that they rarely, or never escape the public reproaches.

He quotes that little snippet from a past age of botanical expertise as a kind of public self-reproach.

We must clearly explain the expectations we have of our leaders, present and future, and serve notice that if the President is guilty of wrongdoing he must suffer, at the least, public embarrassment and reproach.

The women of Afghanistan, imprisoned in their homes and beaten in the streets, and executed in public spectacles, did not reproach us for routing the Taliban.