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Example sentences for: berates

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An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.
Another editorial berates President Clinton for foreclosing the ground troop option, thus goading Slobodan Milosevic into further obstinacy and tying NATO's hands.
Newsweek berates Madeleine Albright as "a cold warrior caught in the wrong decade."
The editorial lauds hawkish Republicans for their willingness to send ground troops to Kosovo and berates poll-wary Democrats for their hesitance to do so.
But the moment she berates the "privilege" of those who couldn't afford to make a down payment on her carriage house, or invokes the "greed" of those making 125 percent of the mean per capita income, I'm with Hick, who said to Eleanor during a White House dinner, "God damn it--none of us ought to be wearing velvet dinner gowns these days."