Sentence examples for told roundly from inspiring English sources

Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, making his slow way to Israel by way of Morocco, Egypt and Jordan, was told roundly by his hosts that he should hurry up and stop Israel.

Do you remember the lines in Herbert's "Affliction": Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce beleeved, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

He was roundly told off by the Algerian government for interfering in its domestic affairs.

Explaining in more detail, the MP said: "I roundly told her to fuck off".

"I roundly told her to fuck off," she explained to the Huffington Post afterwards.

4.01am BST Filmic Boston Vicky, Greta and Kylie are on their way to Cambridge Brewing Co – and may yet run into the same sort of masters students that Damon and Affleck roundly told off in Good Will Hunting.

After our debate, I was told he was roundly defeated, and in subsequent years he refrained from the win-win rhetoric.

If SADC were at last to tell Mr Mugabe roundly to go, he might find it hard to ignore the call.In the end, if his security men refuse to let him stand down, a messy compromise may emerge, with Mr Tsvangirai and the MDC gaining more clout than before, but in some kind of alliance with a faction of Zanu-PF led by the country's vice-president, Joice Mujuru.

I was roundly dismissed and told to calm down.

She was roundly cheered as she told them the Labour party was on their side, before reading out a message of support from Jeremy Corbyn.

Several historians told HuffPost they couldn't recall a candidate being so roundly criticized by major politicians in commencement speeches.