(1) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(2) The history of events at the end of 2010, from the moment on 4 November when Cable called in the regulators, shows how relentlessly James Murdoch and his PR man Frédéric Michel lobbied and berated the politicians who were trying to stand in their way.
(3) Europe has always been there as a fault line, but now it’s front and centre.” (We meet, incidentally, on the day that John Major berates the government for its misleading optimism in the matter of Brexit and the next morning, at my request, she calls me to discuss it.
(4) To cap it all, the shadow foreign secretary and Unionist tub-thumper Douglas Alexander hijacked the row to berate the independence camp for lowering the debate's tone.
(5) Early in the film, a journalist comes to interview him about his defunct literary career; he berates her for caring (intellectually, Jep is a closet puritan).
(6) The appointment of Sir David Walker as chairman failed to prevent a string of shareholders berating the board about pay.
(7) The two jostled over who was the closest to Israel, with Romney berating Obama for failing to visit Israel during a Middle East tour.
(8) Sir Alex Ferguson berates the fourth official as Nani is sent off.
(9) The field is large enough for both kinds of studies and there is no reason to berate investigators as Meiselman does for not investigating the problem he happens to be studying.
(10) Billed as an exclusive, the story told how Prince Harry had received a joke phone message from Prince William pretending to be the younger man's then girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, and berating him over his antics in a lap dancing club.
(11) The sight of stuffy, bespectacled greying men berating films aimed primarily at teenage girls is as farcical as it is depressing.
(12) She was also seen berating a gang vandalising a building.
(13) At the education department, for example, he accepted a measure of responsibility when Michael Gove, the secretary of state, left himself open to legal challenge over axeing school building projects and, on his watch at Ofsted , the inspectorate was berated for issuing a number of flawed reports.
(14) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
(15) Regular readers have been berating me 'below the line' for the lack of coverage of the eurozone debt crisis today.
(16) Guest stars included David Beckham, Kate Moss, Robbie Williams and Gavin and Stacey actor James Corden, who in one sketch berated England's footballers for missing out on qualification for Euro 2008.
(17) With the SNP poised to win a majority of Scotland’s 59 Commons seats and play an influential role at Westminster, the Conservatives have released a series of attack ads berating the Labour leader, Ed Miliband , for failing to explicitly rule out any sort of post-election deal with the SNP.
(18) And this would seem to be the most plausible explanation for why Murdoch the younger, the chairman and chief executive News Corporation Europe and Asia, caused a media sensation on Wednesday by striding across the editorial floor at the Independent newspaper to berate its editor-in-chief, Simon Kelner.
(19) While contact was made, Mourinho was incensed on the bench and strode down the touchline to berate the visiting striker as he complained to the officials.
(20) Last week my friend and onetime colleague, the UK government's former climate adviser John Ashton, berated the BBC for giving Australian climate sceptic Bob Carter undue airtime in its reporting of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Scolding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scold
() a. & n. from Scold, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(2) But Britain, under Tony Blair, proved the equivalent of a disappointing parent, quick to scold and unwilling to listen.
(3) He recalled an incident at a Packers game a few years ago, when he stood up and vocally scolded a fan behind him who had called a Chicago Bears player a faggot.
(4) In 2012, despite the London Whale losses of around $6bn weighing on the bank, it again turned in record – even “triumphant” – profits of $24bn, although Dimon’s pay was halved to around $11m as a scold for the scandal.
(5) 'Maedchen One would never have wet on the floor like that,' my father would scold.
(6) "Here in the Vatican they scold me for being undisciplined but you can see what country I come from," he said – alluding, according to Ansa, to the scrum formed by the Argentinian players while the Italians formed a queue.
(7) Three years ago, Netanyahu was humiliated by Barack Obama with a public scolding to stop settlement expansion .
(8) Like Blair, he will be scolded for it by many activists.
(9) A senior policeman later referred to the scenes in some of its supermarkets as akin to a mini riot and scolded senior executives , arguing the force’s “scarce resources should not be used to bail out stores when they’ve not planned effectively”.
(10) Bernie Sanders, with the presidential gravitas of a toddler, first attempted to shout his usual stump speech over the protestors, and then scolded them for interrupting him and held what one could only describe as a mini public tantrum.
(11) Here's what Fiona Scolding, barrister at Hardwicke chambers, has to say.
(12) After being scolded by them for meeting the Dalai Lama in 2012, David Cameron vowed to “ turn the page ” and never repeat the mistake.
(13) Heading to their crowded dormitory after a night shift, several workers said pressure and the frequent scolding by management might be factors.
(14) Breaks are not breaks, they are allocated times in which we are allowed to be human, to smoke a cigarette, to wolf down a dry sandwich that at £1.25 feels expensive, to use the bathroom and still be scolded for being three minutes late.
(15) Fallen Muslim American soldier's father scolds Trump: 'have you even read the constitution?'
(16) One bearded man scolded his friends for speaking to the foreign press; others seemed to relish the attention, presenting themselves for detailed interviews about their brushes with the neighbour they never knew.
(17) Once or twice a week, without fail, the Restor children would gather around a laptop as Marilyn’s pixelated face appeared on Skype, scolding them about their homework and listening to their test results and friendship woes.
(18) "You're not what I think a woman should be," he scolds her, adding: "I don't like the way you look, sound or move."
(19) At one point, I fidget with my glasses so as to read the programme – Chloe swings round and throws me a stinging glance of reproach, like a seasoned concert-goer scolding a child – rather than the other way round.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Louis van Gaal: Manchester United not at best against Chelsea – link to video Van Gaal was notably unenthused about his team’s performance, bemused to hear them being praised on television, and revealing that he had scolded his players because “normally you have to play your best against the best teams”.