And indeed, on Capitol Hill Thursday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was not sounding particularly chastened.
He'd rather give the now-chastened and better-funded SEC a last chance before creating yet another bureaucracy.
But after accountants, lawyers and families howled, the chastened pols repealed the repeal retroactively.
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Chastened by a fed-up electorate, Congress is still in the warm and cuddly mode.
But unpopularity is gruel for politicians (and actors), and he is likely to feel chastened.
And it will not be surprising if a slimmer, chastened BP is among the companies paying them.
Chastened by this experience, the 1997 Labour election team set out to at least neutralise The Sun.
And on Tuesday, though a bit chastened by his tough political slog, he offered a bit of trademark spark.
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Chastened by all the bad publicity it received, Goldman curtailed pay during 2008-2009.
Maybe, that is, we will have tax cuts and stable money, if not a chastened public sector, in the future.
Back in New York, a chastened Amar'e Stoudemire faced his media inquisition, wearing a gray T-shirt that read MARKED MAN.
City health officials, chastened by the experience of SARS, quickly quarantined the hotel and its nearly 300 guests and employees.
The chastened political left sought solace in the thought that the Panama and Erie canals were fine advertisements for state enterprise.
But the good news is that perhaps chastened by their past failings, the Republicans know to whom they owe their good fortune.
Companies that have tried to push the envelope have been chastened with a cooling-off period, another time out for the misbehaved children.
In a chastened era, Entergy-Koch's modest approach could become an industry model.
Chastened by the hostility and sometimes ridicule of many industry and government officials, Mr. Musk later acknowledged he contemplated abandoning the company.
Peter Doyle, chastened Internet speculator, likes natural gas and other energy plays.
Bangkok's royalist elite has been chastened by the red shirts' pulling power.
Chastened, he promised to take a tougher line on this year's budget.
She campaigned against the sale and the chastened museum handed over the collection intact to the American Numismatic Society for a nominal sum.
Microsoft has been chastened and no longer forces the same kind of licensing agreements it once did, Gates says, and many observers agree.
There's the innocent youth, the self-described madman who reigned as a top music executive, and the chastened survivor of a professional and personal meltdown.
Sean froze, instantly transforming from jolly swagman into chastened schoolboy.
Chastened, the Swiss agreed to collect withholding taxes on American accounts and gradually increased the level of oversight the U.S. Treasury has had into their banks.
Chastened, I stuck close to reality until I was trying to account for some dead spots between college and law school, and law school and life.
Peter Beinart, the author, is one of the chastened liberals who supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and wonders how America could have been so wrong.
Chastened by the bad publicity they received ten years ago, and now cowed into submission by the war on terror, they have become respectable, even docile.
Chastened, I crossed the street and met Simon Rodway, an official city guide (www.silvercanetours.com) who leads a tour on Ian Fleming through the Mayfair neighbourhood of London.
At the January retreat, a halfway point in the midst of these budget battles, Cantor sounded chastened, or, at least, like a man wanting to appear chastened.
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