(n.) The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
(n.) That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the west has little to offer other than statements of support for Georgia coupled with denunciations of Russian ruthlessness.
(2) At last year’s 36th anniversary of the taking of the embassy hostages, which featured criticism of the Rouhani administration as well as denunciations of the United States as the “Great Satan”, Raeisi announced that the intelligence and security forces had “identified and cracked down on a network of penetration in media and cyberspace, and detained spies and writers hired by Americans”.
(3) The study says that although migrants will not vote as a bloc, previous patterns suggest they are likely to prefer parties viewed as positive about race equality and immigration – and are likely to turn their back on those engaged in hostile denunciations of migrants.
(4) In the three weeks since McCrory, a Republican, signed the legislation, a battery of prominent businesses and celebrities have issued thundering denunciations.
(5) Pope Francis has spoken out against those who use religion as a pretext for violence and oppression, in his clearest denunciation yet of the Islamic state militants murdering their way across Syria and Iraq.
(6) They may decide just to keep her under wraps indefinitely until she, too, succumbs to either mental illness or physical illness.” He said Beijing had prevented Liu from travelling and making a final denunciation of its authoritarian rule to avoid “an enormous public relations disaster”.
(7) With it was a covering letter from a senior MI5 officer, who explained that “we had obtained sight, by secret and delicate means, of a long and reasoned denunciation of the leadership of the British Communist party by one of their best-known intellectuals”, and asking that it not be used without being paraphrased.
(8) Article 58 allows any party to denounce the convention on six months' notice, although any breaches of the convention committed before denunciation will still be liable to review by the human rights court in Strasbourg.
(9) Other purported former comrades made denunciations on Facebook pages such as " Bowe Bergdahl is not a hero ”, and an online petition to the White House demanding a court martial garnered more than 2,900 signatures.
(10) However no common duty to denunciation of secure or supposed incorrect treatments is established.
(11) Yet despite official denunciation and celebration of diversity, racism as a concept in this country endures, adapting and readapting, chameleon-like to the changing social and political times.
(12) A Guardian leader said his speech was classic Dacre: "a white-knuckle, sometimes sulphurous denunciation of anyone he perceives to be the enemy of the free press he cherishes and so resolutely defends.
(13) Shavit is a hawk on the Iranian nuclear threat, for example, but fierce in his denunciation of the post-1967 occupation.
(14) Right now, Iran's denunciation of Saudi interference and provocative offer to mediate stems primarily from a humanitarian concern; the conflict also provides Tehran with an opportunity to flex its muscles and repair some of the post-election damage inflicted to its credibility and axis of influence in the region.
(15) He was following the Arab League secretary general’s denunciation of the way in which Iran in particular was exploiting the Sunni-Shia divide, and using religion for political purposes.
(16) In June 1956, for instance, during the regular editorial lunch at the Waldorf Hotel, Crankshaw, not revealing his source, mentioned that he had acquired a transcript of Khrushchev’s secret denunciation of Stalin to the 20th Communist party congress.
(17) Mal Brough apologises for 60 Minutes claim, but denies he misled parliament Read more Malcolm Turnbull faced fresh questions about his political judgment and rebuffed calls to sack Brough from the ministry, saying there had been no new developments and “guilt or innocence is not determined by public denunciation”.
(18) And this is why Labour’s leaders have been obliged to have their own deficit plan, simply to get a hearing from interviewers and commentators oblivious to Keynes’s excoriating denunciation of similar primitive and failing policies in the 1920s and 1930s.
(19) The Chinese foreign office issued (for them) a sharply worded denunciation of the US attack on the Pakistani border post.
(20) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.
Reprimand
Definition:
(n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
(n.) To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.
(n.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pardew apologised for his behaviour on Saturday night and the FA is awaiting the referee's report before deciding on action against the 52-year-old, who has been fined £100,000 by Newcastle and severely reprimanded by the club .
(2) The newspaper reported that the claims "would appear to be at odds with parliamentary rules" after the former Labour minister Tony McNulty was reprimanded for allowing his parents to live in his second home, which was subsidised by the taxpayer.
(3) According to sources, the incident prompted James Harding , the director of BBC News, to send a note reprimanding Paxman for his public criticism of the corporation.
(4) It is clearly an option, and it is something that the government considers, but the way to take that option away is for the senators to pass those bills.” Muir said he did not respond well to those kinds of threats, saying that union leaders who spoke to employees in such a way would be reprimanded.
(5) It would be easy to efficiently cut him down with the word “rapist”, particularly when I will not face any reprimands for my own imperfect behaviour during the relationship.
(6) Teachers report using both reprimands and encouragement as strategies to reduce off-task behavior in the classroom.
(7) It "failed to recognise the significance" of damage to a gas fracking well in 2011 and did not report it to government officials for six months, leading to a stern reprimand by the energy minister, papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
(8) Reprimands proved superior to No Feedback in reducing off-task behavior, but Encouragement did not.
(9) She has allegedly received several disciplinary reprimands, including the complaint that she did not respond to a 5:30am wake-up call.
(10) I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that.
(11) "HE [Her Excellency Joyce Banda] called me this morning and reprimanded me for issuing the statement without consulting Steve, my boss," the message says.
(12) There was even an appeal judge reprimanded over a driving ban but his name seems to have slipped off the bottom of the 2012 list .
(13) A woman captured on video slapping her teenage son for taking part in the Baltimore riots, a reprimand that went viral online, won praise from the city’s police commissioner and was heralded on social media as “mum of the year”.
(14) The wanton slaughter of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq and the severe and even lethal torture of Afghan detainees generated, at worst, shockingly short jail time for the killers and, usually, little more than letters of reprimand.
(15) Jeremy Paxman was reprimanded by the BBC's director of news over negative comments he made about the corporation before the announcement of his departure from Newsnight , it has emerged.
(16) They were subsequently informed that the victim responded with interpersonal aggression or with a verbal reprimand.
(17) He appeared to reprimand Kennedy for speaking out in a public meeting rather than raising her concerns during the private consultations that take place with major investors.
(18) The FSA warned last month that City firms faced fines and public reprimands unless they could name the individuals responsible for ensuring clients' money was kept separate from overall funds.
(19) Only those with no deductions at all, even for a minor reprimand, are allowed to go on an end-of-term trip.
(20) The results indicate that the manner in which reprimands are delivered is critical in influencing children's misbehavior, but the role of nurturance during disciplinary situations is less clear.