The result was widely interpreted as a personal rebuke to then Chief Minister Shane Stone.
Dr. al-Ouda is known for not only criticizing the September 11 attacks, but delivering a personal rebuke to Osama bin Laden.
In retrospect, that speech reads like a personal, finger-wagging rebuke of the President.
You didn't have to be a telepath to realize that he saw Lwaxana's appeal to Starfleet as a personal rebuke.
"I'm only a third of the Christian pantheon," God said, obviously stung by the interviewer's personal rebuke.
Mr. Gulotta, 43, who was presiding supervisor of the Town of Hempstead before his appointment, avoided personal rebukes and defended his administration's accomplishments.
Some Italian political analysts said that his decision to do so in this case might be interpreted by some Italians as a personal rebuke of Mr. Berlusconi.
Once she came to that realization, she went through a die-hard "cheerleader phase," which her mother took as a personal rebuke.
There was a note close to accusation in The Shadow's parting laugh, which Moe took as a personal rebuke for not obeying orders.
Yet another suffered the pain of personal rebuke.