Word: reproaching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...night before the South Carolina primary. The setting was a historic spot, Penn Center on St. Helena Island, a complex of rude buildings that had served as a center for the civil rights movement, dating back to the Civil War. The crowd, however, was overwhelmingly white-a silent reproach to Clinton by his best-loved constituency, those unutterably decent, hardworking, middle-class, churchified African Americans. They had been shocked and hurt, and then enraged, by his foolish, two-week effort to diss Barack Obama. The next crowd, at Hillary Clinton's closing rally in Columbia, was equally pale and must...
Having written the Musharraf story, the Bush Administration now appears captive to it. The White House could only wag a disapproving finger at the Pakistani dictator, urging him to give up his military uniform and hold elections. "I certainly hope he does take my advice," Bush said. What little reproach there was in the President's comments was undermined by his description of Musharraf as a "strong fighter against extremists and radicals"--and by swift reassurances from Administration officials that there would be no slowing in the flow of American aid to the Pakistani military. Stronger opprobrium and sanctions...
...more recently, “from Burma too!” the choruses one after another, in perpetual refrain, raise, striking so high a pitch that few politically-sensitive observers withhold their applause. But this tired routine cannot—and should not—remain above reproach. This bleeding-heart activism is not mere well-intentioned, innocuous idealism, but potentially a cause of harm—not, thankfully, to the benighted peoples the campaigners ostensibly seek to help—but to their own society.This self-congratulatory student activism, typified by such officious petition-writing, fosters a pernicious habit...
...will work to protect the vision of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk [the staunchly secular founder of modern Turkey]," Gul said. "It is the duty of the president to protect democracy and secularism." Some liberal commentators are supporting his candidacy as a reproach to the military for intervening too vocally in May. But the hard-line secularist Republican People's Party, or CHP, reacted harshly. Its leader, Deniz Baykal, denounced his nomination as a threat to the "peace and stability of this country." He told a Turkish newspaper, "If Gul is elected, Turkey's political balances will change . Turkey will be transformed...
...After more than a decade of what he sincerely believed was his fight for democracy, Yeltsin surrendered his country and his subjects - whom he had so persistently urged to become citizens - to former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin. A few members of the democratic opposition still left now reproach Yeltsin for choosing a successor who dismantled the fragile freedoms Yeltsin had inaugurated. But the point was not his choice of successor as much as the method of succession, forgoing fair and transparent elections, simply announcing his resignation and appointment of Putin as his successor on New Year...