• He summoned the army chief, along with the most prominent advocate of reform, for an even-handed dressing-down, paving the way for a peaceful restoration of democracy.

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  • The Toffees boss also revealed it took a half-time dressing down to inspire Everton to a win against Middlesbrough and reach an FA Cup semi-final for the first time in 14 years.

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  • Tarantino himself may be tired of discussing it - just ask Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who got a stern dressing down during an interview last week - but Waltz defends the guts and gore.

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  • Back then, the inventively trashy filmmaker John Waters was having campy fun with early-'60s hair and fashion, and with his cross-dressing hausfrau, but he was also dressing down a certain set of early-'60s attitudes about conformity and racial segregation.

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  • Chief Executive Robert Eckert found himself on Capitol Hill getting the usual dressing-down.

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  • Another analyst got a dressing-down for publishing a report without first submitting it to EMC for editing (the standard practice)--even though the report said good things.

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  • The 24 players returned to the course after the rain had gone as Europe served up a Sunday best after a Saturday night dressing-down from captain Colin Montgomerie.

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  • However, last month, in a dressing-down broadcast on TV, the Russian leader rebuked Mr Govorun for failing to deliver on his election promises to help people living in sub-standard housing in the regions.

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  • After all, just eight months ago, Mr Blair received a withering dressing-down over his style of government from Lord Butler, a former cabinet secretary, who reported on the uses and misuses of intelligence before the war with Iraq.

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  • He has been summoned before the Procedure Committee for a dressing-down over his department's performance in answering parliamentary questions - where figures show it has the worst record in Whitehall, with MPs waiting too long for often unacceptable answers.

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  • It got me thinking: Why not assemble a stripped-down, tomboy vanity by pairing this mirror with a low-key desk or dressing table a solution that wouldn't flood our bedroom with estrogen?

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  • For years the fashion pundits have been predicting that the phenomenon known as dressing down would clobber the up-market men's clothing makers.

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  • The potential exists for a head and shoulders pattern that could rally this market into end-of-the-quarter window dressing shenanigans before possibly turning back down.

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  • It was from IBM, telling me my organization was "forcing" them to do something they didn't want to do, and generally dressing me down for making an issue of the bald-faced sexism that their sponsorship supported.

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  • Hussey, the target of teasing in the dressing-room because of his inflated average, has played down the order in all of his 21 one-day internationals.

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  • And, like Jack Welch, the boss of General Electric, Sir Martin is famous for dressing down subordinates, with phone calls at 2 am and e-mails fired off at all hours.

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  • But we were there when the editor, ashen-faced, took a phone call from her that was obviously a dressing down.

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  • Every fan feels this way about their team, I'm sure, but it was typical West Brom when I got back to my dressing room to catch the last half hour or so and we went 1-0 down against a team struggling against relegation.

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  • Ruddock was more dismissive of criticism in Thomas' book that he had not clamped down on players' personal standards, with dressing rooms left in a mess, bar bills going unpaid and half-full water bottles being discarded.

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