Sentences with phrase «means of scolding»

A few years ago, Shrank depicted Barack Obama as Hamlet as a means of scolding him for his failure to act decisively in Syria.

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Shortly before his death, Mark Twain wrote: «A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle... they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages...

In the e-mail, Klein scolded some principals - though taking care not to name those who complained to Winerip - for trying to «protect their own school regardless of what it means for everyone else.»

I have grabbed the older one off of the pup and have scolded her and popped her on the butt and tell her how bad that is, which she understands bad to mean Mommy is displeased and tell her NO, which she also understands.

This high level of motivation means that when barking territorially, your dog might ignore unpleasant or punishing responses from you, such as scolding or yelling.

Also, RGB at Duke would scold R.Gates for making the «schtick» «First, the climate now is not warmer than it was in the Holocene Optimum (do not make the mistake of conflating the high frequency, high resolution «2004 ″ data point with the smoothed low frequency, low resolution data in the curve — even the figure's caption warns against doing that — for the very good reason that in every 300 year smoothed upswing it is statistically certain that the upswing involved multidecadal intervals of temperatures much higher than the running mean.