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If the cigarette is such an issue, why didn't he ask her that before she rebuked his grounds for the ticket?

If interested look at this post which was soundly rebuked, and proved to be misleading.

This article from a while back supports your thesis: that Powers, who rarely gave heavy criticism to his boss, rebuked him.

Exactly - and such legislative overreach is often rebuked and/or set aside by the courts.

Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.

Now, eridius, you are starting to repeat a point you already made and that I already rebuked.

They file a Motion to Suppress and the judge or investigator is rebuked.

And as I said above, King David -- perhaps the most famous of polygamists -- is never rebuked for his marriages.

This is about the US engaging in the sort of behavior that we have rebuked China over -- state-sponsored industrial espionage.

I know one of the big Delicious people do, because my first month here I got rebuked by him for insulting Delicious.

How many times does it have to be rebuked?

Even the most respectful and reasonable posts are rebuked.

And the next day I was strongly rebuked by my editor for not having written a "Homebuilding shows surprising lack of tech innovation" story.

The parent comment further breaks the Hacker News guidelines: "Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article." Can you clarify why my comment was rebuked, but the parent was not, please?

At a party, a dowager rebuked him for his inebriation: "Winston, you are disgracefully drunk!" He steadied himself and glared at her: "And you, Madam, are ugly.

I once (about 15 years ago) got rebuked (gently) by a researcher at Sun Labs once when I dismissed a potential project as "easy." A museum was looking for someone to help build a search engine for their art collection.