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But after accountants, lawyers and families howled, the chastened pols repealed the repeal retroactively.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.
Putin really was weakened and chastened during 2011 because he was very obviously losing public support.
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Mr Milosevic has other ideas but is too chastened, for now, to put them into practice.
He sees a president chastened by events both at home the November elections and abroad.
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.
Emboldened by the election result, it is unlikely to send an olive branch to its chastened opponents.
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.
This will be true whether the President is a chastened, more nationalistic Boris Yeltsin or an unabashedly revanchist Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
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.
His best bet looks to be to try to strike a firm alliance with the PAN if, in its chastened state, it is a willing partner.
Sean froze, instantly transforming from jolly swagman into chastened schoolboy.
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