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Examples
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Admonishing his colleagues about secrecy did not stop the leaks of inside information.
Robert Auerbach: The GAO Must Perform a Diligent Independent Audit of the More Than $2 Trillion Issued By the Fed Robert Auerbach 2010
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Admonishing her to be half the woman he was when he last wore the crown ...
WSJ: Bill Clinton Urges Hillary's Campaign To Keep Going, Go More Negative 2009
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Admonishing her like she's a student in your second-grade classroom is only a way to start a flame war, not to further the discourse you claim to seek.
AP/Ipsos: Hillary Performing Better Than Obama Against McCain 2009
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Admonishing a public official for making a joke about incest is not political correctness, its civility.
Cheney Apologizes to West Virginia - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Admonishing the crowd to be 'fired up,' he began his performance.
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Admonishing all ladies and gentlewomen, that are desirous to preserve their chastity, free from all blemish and taxation: To make no promise of yeelding to any, under a compact or covenant, how impossible soever it may seeme to be
The Decameron 2004
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Admonishing him for behaving like a "childish schoolboy", he then proceeded to behave exactly like it himself and, in that way, missed rather crucial issues that the ANC Youth League President had raised.
ANC Today 2004
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Admonishing him for behaving like a "childish schoolboy", he then proceeded to behave exactly like it himself and, in that way, missed rather crucial issues that the ANC Youth League President had raised.
ANC Today 2004
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Admonishing all ladies and gentlewomen, that are desirous to preserve their chastity, free from all blemish and taxation: To make no promise of yeelding to any, under a compact or covenant, how impossible soever it may seeme to be
The Decameron 2004
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Admonishing Nomscul to behave and make sure his fellow Aghar did the same, Flint and the rest set out through the village and past the brewery to the north edge of town, where Moldoon's Inn beckoned invitingly.
Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003
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