Sentence examples for sharp rebuke for from inspiring English sources

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Being two minutes early for a meeting still elicits a sharp rebuke for being tardy.

It is unclear whether Citigroup's employee-shareholders played a significant role in last week's vote, which, though not binding, nonetheless was a sharp rebuke for Mr. Pandit and his board.

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Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, scheduled the vote in the House over a week ago after drawing sharp rebukes for adjourning the previous Congress last year without taking up a $60.4 billion aid bill that the Senate had passed to finance recovery efforts in the hurricane-battered states.

The decision, announced on Friday by Interpol, to delete all information about Mr. Browder from its databases amounted to a rare — and sharp rebuke of Russia for trying to use international law enforcement agencies in a political dispute.

The independent oversight group is part of the Executive Branch, and is notable for its sharp rebuke of the government's program under Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect the phone call metadata of U.S. citizens.

The administration's sharp rebuke of the American International Group on Sunday for handing out $165 million in executive bonuses — Lawrence H. Summers, director of the president's National Economic Council, described it as "outrageous" on "This Week" on ABC — marks the latest effort by the White House to distance itself from abuses that could feed potentially disruptive public anger.

"I said, 'Well, you could ask the children,' " prompting a sharp rebuke from the woman and a demand for written evidence.

He advised Lord Grantham not to do it, drawing an uncharacteristically sharp rebuke from Robert that this situation called for backbone.

The results no doubt will be seen not only as a personal blow for Wilders, but a sharp rebuke of the surging populism growing across Europe in recent years.

The results no doubt will be seen not only as a personal blow for Wilders, but a sharp rebuke of the surging populism growing across Europe in recent years.

Ukraine deported 11 refugees from Uzbekistan, prompting an unusually sharp rebuke from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which said the Uzbeks had sought political asylum and called the action illegal.

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