Sentences with phrase «pointed rebukes»

Neither of them mentioned Trump by name but two of his predecessors — George W. Bush and Barack Obama — emerged from political seclusion yesterday to deliver what sounded like pointed rebukes of the current occupant of the Oval Office and the forces of division that propelled him to power.

• In this issue, the normally irenic Ephraim Radner offers a pointed rebuke to Notre Dame historian Candida Moss's new book on martyrdom in the early Church.

While testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe rejected the White House's assertion that his predecessor, James Comey, had lost the backing of rank - and - file agency members agents, a pointed rebuke of what had been one of the president's main defenses for the move.

In holding true to its claim of being the 1st definitive guide of its kind, Seeking Arrangement packs in 4 appendixes, including «Prostitution versus Arrangements», a pointed rebuke of harlotry allegations, and «Diary of a Sugar Baby», which chronicles the real experiences of a member who became a sugar baby after 8 years of post-divorce dating trauma.

As Adrian Searle wrote in the Guardian, the shortlist suggests a pointed rebuke to the reactionary and isolationist thinking of Brexit - era Britain.

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«After this strong rebuke from the Supreme Court of Canada, there is no question that Christy Clark deliberately attacked and undermined public education in British Columbia — even to the point of breaking the law.

Several others point to Berry's lack of attention to the good of politics, especially what co-editor Nathan Schlueter calls «formal mediating institutions,» and Schlueter himself comes closer than anyone to an outright rebuke of Berry for his disregard of «the original sin narrative, with all that it implies» in his pacifism.»

Jesus walks with them some more, rebuking them and then spends the night with them, breaking bread at which point they realize who he is and he vanishes.

They tell the others, who still don't believe, but Jesus later appears to all 11 apostles (Judas is persona non grata at this point and / or dead) and rebukes them for not believing Mary Magdalene and the first two apostles who saw him earlier.

I have reached a point in life of having utter contempt for your message of hate and will gladly rebuke you and your kind whenever you puke forth your putrid shit.

And I certainly don't mind if you respond and intellectually rebuke both my points.

There is a mutual relationship and agreement between Jacob's strongly - worded rebuke of the treacherous action of the two men (34:25 - 31) and the pertinent words from the Blessing of Jacob, which clearly reflects a postsettlement, and tribal, point of view:

If we are less forthright, we shall only invite the resentment, disdain, and rebuke of the Indians, who will point to the dross of self.

It's imperative we understand this crucial point because it rebukes the lie Blacks are inherently less moral than other ethnicities.

Despite rebuking Van Persie for his over-zealous celebration, Van Gaal was full of praise for his United players for salvaging a point against the Premier League leaders.

As for Assini's prediction, Slaughter's campaign rebuked it by pointing to her ability in the past to pull Republican votes, particularly women in the GOP.

The foursome's agreement to assist Astorino is a rebuke to the head of the RGA, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has repeatedly refused to lift a finger on Astorino's behalf, saying at one point that he didn't want to invest RGA resources in «lost causes.»

Sure, 90 per cent of independent scientifi c endeavour demonstrably proves man - made climate change IS happening, but fortunately that can all be rebuked by pointing to the odd faked email from an East Anglian university and shouting: «I told you so!».

(At one point he asked for a show of hands of who had read it, earning a tart rebuke from Chairman Ryan McMahon).

Headteachers» leaders criticised Wilshaw's ideas, rebuking that he is wrong to point the finger in the direction of schools.

The majority of the time, the older dog will put up with the pups antics... up to a point... then he / she will «draw the line» and will show the little one who's in charge with a growl, snap or other rebuke.

I have a story in Science Times looking at the latest round of climate - treaty talks, one month ago in Bali, from the vantage point of Kevin Conrad, the young man who represented Papua New Guinea and shook things up with a strong rebuke of the United States in the final tumultuous session.

Pointing out the affirmative should hardly deserve being rebuked for an imaginary position against advocacy.

Almost immediately after the delay announcement, one report said that the AirPods would not launch until January, but another report quickly tried to rebuke that, suggesting that the wireless earphones were still on track to launch by the end of 2016, at some point in the holiday shopping season.