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Example sentences for: rebuke

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It is seen as a rebuke to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and a victory for Democrats, Sen.
Ford proposes the following punishment: "A harshly worded rebuke as rendered by members of both parties," to be administered in the well of the House chamber.
"Elliott Abrams is a severe, insightful critic of the assumptions that have brought the American Jewish community to its current predicament," says Mark Miller in the Weekly Standard . Liberals rebuke Abrams for his alarmism about intermarriage.
Liberal editorialists paired it with the acquittal/mistrial of Susan McDougal, which they portrayed as a similar rebuke to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.
' In the course of its transfer to English through French it has become `a severe or formal rebuke,' i.e., the act of repressing.