(1) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(2) Prominent pro-Europeans are planning to lambast Cameron for placing a question mark over Britain's EU membership.
(3) And in the last month, it has faced serious allegations about sexual harassment , as early-stage investors have lambasted its “destructive culture” .
(4) The West Ham striker Andy Carroll has lambasted the referee Jon Moss for an unacceptable performance, even accusing the official of trying to even things up by awarding Leicester a stoppage-time penalty.
(5) Kenneth Feinberg, the US treasury department official who is scrutinising pay packages at bailed-out banks, said that Lewis – besieged by regulatory investigations and lambasted by shareholders – should get no salary or bonus for the year.
(6) As members of Congress lined up to lambast her leadership at a hearing on Capitol Hill, Pierson admitted the gravity of the failure and admitted repeated failings in the performance of the agency in recent years.
(7) Following the report on high housing costs, he was widely lambasted for responding on Twitter with remarks about Iran.
(8) Chelsea v Bournemouth: Premier League – as it happened Read more Mourinho’s post-match gloom reflected as much, his criticisms of the officials all rather half-hearted given the fact that, when he has lambasted perceived mistakes this term, he has been slapped down with heavy fines, a stadium ban and a threat of another to come.
(9) Many local anti-Ukip protests are galvanised by a tiny, loud woman who goes by the soubriquet Bunny La Roche and who last December lambasted Farage from the audience on Question Time , her blue hair and cries of “racist scumbag” making a lasting impression.
(10) He lambasts them for undermining local democracy by flexing their legal and financial muscle against much weaker local authorities, and employing former government advisers to forge close relationships with Whitehall.
(11) Former Netanyahu aide lambasts US ambassador in heated spat Read more “These provocative acts are bound to increase the growth of settler populations, further heighten tensions and undermine any prospects for a political road ahead,” Ban told a United Nations security council meeting on the Middle East.
(12) But amid mounting opposition to the measures, the Communist party lambasted the speech as "scaremongering".
(13) It has been a year and no justice has been made.” Speaker after speaker lambasted the response to Brown’s death by authorities.
(14) When the CPS requested his extradition in 2007, Putin responded by lambasting Britain's colonial "no brains" mentality.
(15) There is a lot the advertising industry, credit card industry and search industry can do to help protect legit content.” Last month, Google UK was lambasted for not doing enough to curb online piracy in a report by David Cameron’s intellectual property adviser, Mike Weatherley.
(16) Officials, not wanting to be lambasted for taking too prominent a role in the game, seem more keen than ever to, in the common parlance, “let them play”.
(17) The former tabloid reporter, who also worked for the Sunday Express and trained at Thomson Regional Newspapers , lambasted celebrities who complain about the press, including Hugh Grant, Steve Coogan and Sienna Miller, all of whom have given evidence to the inquiry.
(18) Behind the success is a lot of drive and a lot of hard work.” Last year she was hosting the Walkleys when she used the platform to lambast managing director Mark Scott’s approach to ABC redundancies and attitude towards traditional TV and radio journalism.
(19) Raab said: "In his speech the MI5 director general lambasted the Guardian for handing terrorists a gift - a very potent word he used.
(20) It’s a really horrible feeling that this is now playing smack-bang into the far right’s hands.” Cologne attacks: mayor lambasted for telling women to keep men at arm's length Read more The anxiety has extended to the media, including the evening news programme that tweeted the question to its viewers: “How should we cover the events in Cologne?” and baulked at even touching the item itself until five days after the event.
Rebuke
Definition:
(v. t.) To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.
(n.) A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.
(n.) Check; rebuff.
Example Sentences:
(1) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
(3) Peter Schweizer – whose book scrutinizing donations to the Clinton Foundation has earned sharp rebukes from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and liberally aligned groups – confirmed on Thursday plans to investigate Bush’s past financial dealings.
(4) Howard was rebuked by the race discrimination commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, within minutes of the interview being aired.
(5) FBI v Apple hearing: 'Apple is in an arms race with criminals and hackers' – live Read more This all comes on the heels of a judge in New York strongly rebuking the FBI and Department of Justice in a court decision on Monday.
(6) Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.
(7) The strong-arm tactics immediately drew a rebuke from the US.
(8) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(9) The state department issued a stinging rebuke of the behaviour of the Saudis and their Egyptian, Emirati and Bahraini allies, with the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, warning them to make their demands on Qatar “ reasonable and actionable ”.
(10) The same refusal to back down characterised his dispute with Norman Mailer, whose attitudes towards women had brought rebukes from Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.
(11) Those sorts of failures and might-have-beens have pockmarked Kerry’s record, and the rebukes he has faced have at times been scathing.
(12) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
(13) Many titles are designed as a deliberate rebuke to the mainstream, which rarely shows much interest in depicting alternative lifestyles or engaging with social issues.
(14) The prime minister took the opportunity during a Coalition meeting on Wednesday to urge his colleagues to resist talking about themselves, in an apparent rebuke to Tony Abbott and others who continued to comment about the circumstances leading to the September leadership spill.
(15) I’ve watched a lot of cats do a lot of weird and interesting things.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Full speech: Michelle Obama’s powerful rebuke against Trump Furthermore, the controversies engulfing Trump’s campaign have distracted almost entirely from the daily dump by WikiLeaks of nearly 2,000 emails hacked from the Clinton campaign .
(16) In a sharp rebuke to Israel , state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "The remarks of the defence minister, if accurate, are offensive and inappropriate, especially given all that the US is doing to support Israel's security needs.
(17) Or is there a link with president Dmitry Medvedev's statement on 14 July, the day before her murder, that federal forces should be involved in counter-terrorist operations in Chechnya and Ingushetia – an apparent rebuke to Kadyrov, whose own forces have masterminded operations?
(18) Gavin Barwell hasn’t been housing minister for very long at all, but has already elicited a stinging rebuke from his boss at No 10.
(19) Kim Davis draws rebuke from Eye of the Tiger band after song plays at rally Read more “I just want to give God the glory,” she said.
(20) The part played by the two men in the ousting of well-respected chairman David Plowright the following year earned them a stinging rebuke from John Cleese, whose fax famously read "fuck off out of it, you upstart caterer".