The article led to an outpouring of support for Mr. Powers and sharp denunciations of Mr. Powell, whom opponents accused of carrying water for Mr. Perry, a graduate of Texas A&M University.
The assault conviction of Senator Hiram Monserrate set off sharp denunciations from Democratic colleagues on Friday, with several prominent senators saying they would seek to expel Mr. Monserrate from the chamber.
ANTAKYA, Turkey — The Syrian conflict escalated to a dangerous new level on Thursday when government troops and their civilian supporters blocked unarmed United Nations monitors from investigating a massacre of farm families, prompting sharp denunciations of Damascus from diplomats who have struggled vainly to find a workable, consensus solution to the crisis.
In any event, Sanders is not the sort of career political hack who can blithely go from sharp denunciations to sudden hearty fellowship.
The Lord's shit!" they pierced the sacred air of the church with their fists and with their sharp denunciations of both priestly finery and worshippers' cringing servility.
Mr. Edwards's charge that Mrs. Clinton was part of a corrupt political class prompted her to deliver her sharpest denunciation of the night.
In the sharpest denunciation of lawmakers who supported the measure, New York's largest union of state workers, the Civil Service Employees Association, announced on Monday that it would immediately suspend all state political endorsements, as well as campaign contributions to Albany lawmakers.
Rarely has that conclusion been expressed more forcefully than in recent days when Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, a Nobel Peace laureate once at the forefront of the fight against apartheid, issued his sharpest yet denunciation of the government, comparing it pejoratively with its apartheid predecessor.
The imposition of the fee, approved by the league's board last year, stands in a sharp contrast to the group's denunciation of and aggressive lobbying against Gov. David A. Paterson's proposed theater ticket tax, which would have added about $5 to $10 to Broadway tickets, depending on their face value.
