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scolded

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Past of scold

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His aunts have scolded him: "They said: 'Why are you here, why are you not in Europe?

In court Tuesday, Bury scolded city attorneys for misinterpreting the order.

Richard Dawkins visited Dublin – and Listowel, in Co Kerry, for Writers' Week – and scolded the Irish for having God in their constitution; they took it on the chin, and bought his book The God Delusion at the double.

But the UNM scolded the police for failing to prevent what happened.These elections matter.

When a friend boasted he had been playing football when his wife gave birth (some men in the Valley are rather hands-off), Mr Goldberg scolded him for his inattentiveness.It is hardly unusual for a billionaire to have a supportive spouse.

The cartoonists had a field day when he scolded a bare-shouldered woman in a restaurant for being "too provocative", and was challenged to a duel by her husband.

The kingdom's most senior religious authority, the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, recently scolded a fellow scholar for suggesting that celebrating birthdays was a harmless thing to do, declaring instead that such festivities are sinfully unIslamic.

It is a book committed as much to revenge as to revelation.The architect has publicly scolded Robert Irwin for his "irresponsibility" in designing a garden for the Getty Centre that clashed with his own ideas of how the California hilltop should look.

In Britain, a cabinet minister has been scolded for suggesting that high earners might be happy to pay more tax so that those lower down the scale could pay less.As a vote-winning measure, tax cuts have obvious appeal: people usually prefer to spend their money themselves, rather than let the government do it.

"All of this is haram (forbidden)," scolded a militant spokesman, who threatened to destroy every tomb in the city "without exception".

The commanders had scolded the president for the mayhem of the student demonstrations and threatened that, if he failed to restore order, they would do it for him.In this section The meaning of freedom Royal jigsaw in Qatar Reaching for your machete Morocco's humanitarian king Big-game safari ReprintsThe press feud is at the heart of Iran's reformist-conservative war within the establishment.

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