reproval


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However, in its 2012 Annual Report the Committee disclosed that it had issued a Letter of Reproval to one member of the House (238) and a $10,000 fine to another member for using official resources for campaign and personal purposes and also for obstructing the Committee's investigation.
Too often the rebukes delivered to poets working and poetry written within literature departments have an implicitly moral reproval behind them, though one that keeps the nature of the offence ambiguous.
Lapham calls the "Republican propaganda mill." It is a shame that the only recourse the current incarnation of the Democratic Party finds fit to use is one of weak-chinned reproval. When false statements present themselves, as they have in the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth testimonials, there should be an immediate turning over of rocks in order to disprove fallacy and investigate credibility.
"You're spilling," Sophie comments, reproval in her tone.
It sent Schuster a letter of reproval. It is, according to The New York Times, "the mildest form of sanction the committee can mete out."
110) that points to the fact that the recitation of texts which actually belong to the category of "secret knowledge" was not the object of reproval or punishment.
Mack claimed that the state bar reneged on a 1996 agreement in which he accepted a "private reproval" in exchange for the bar's pledge not to "affirmatively provide any publicity of the disposition." He sued for breach of contract because the statement "this member has a public record of discipline" appears by his name on the member information section of the bar's Web site (www.calbar.org).
States cap per-case spending by appointed lawyers at levels precluding competent representation without fear of court reproval: for example, $350 for felonies in Virginia, $750 in South Carolina, and $1000 in Tennessee and Kentucky (pp.