Sentences with phrase «rare public rebuke»

The action against such prominent police commanders — three deputy chiefs and a deputy inspector — was a rare public rebuke to the senior management of the nation's largest municipal police force.

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, facing a rare public rebuke from within his conference over his handling of a sexual - harassment case, proposed changes to the chamber's policies on such cases, while also offering an emotional defense of his leadership.

Amid a groundswell against the cardinal, including rare public rebukes from some of his own priests, Law asked to resign and the pope said yes.