Sentences with phrase «mild rebuke»

Wesfarmers shareholders have delivered a mild rebuke to their board of directors, delivering a protest vote against a new share options scheme but supporting the company's remuneration report.

Of course, I know I might have to face the mild rebukes of some in the Senate, who, like Chris Dodd, are paragons of ethical probity, and the likes of the New York Times may even oppose me (largely to shore up its own lack of credibility).

May delivered a mild rebuke to Johnson after he told the Daily Mail that the customs partnership, one of two options considered by the inner cabinet, would be unacceptable.

This mild rebuke, in the form of non-binding «guidance,» was hardly going to spur districts to change course.

Apparently my mild rebuke was enough to ruffle some rather too gentle feathers.