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Example sentences for: rebuke

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This credentials-committee rebuke must have made even Mr. Frantz and Ms. Collins cringe, avowed admirers of diversity that they are.
Liberal editorialists paired it with the acquittal/mistrial of Susan McDougal, which they portrayed as a similar rebuke to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.
USA Today leads with the rebuke to Iraq likely to come from the U.N., which is also the top national story at the Los Angeles Times . The New York Times leads with Kodak's decision to cut 10,000 jobs, the biggest layoff at any American company this year.
That rebuke is a wonderful piece of writing--it establishes both Edgecomb's watchfulness and his decency.
And even Wilde's decision to endure prison rather than flee was a rebuke to England's inhumanity.