The harangue visited upon the hapless secretary who failed for the third time to make the necessary corrections.

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Ferguson also insists he will never allow his players to harangue referees and has called for more respect to be shown to officials.

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Returning to his ancestral party, he led the resistance to civil rights, and still holds the record for the Senate's longest filibuster: a 24-hour-18-minute harangue against a civil-rights bill.

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The BJP's biggest draw, Mr Modi will harangue an estimated 270 rallies in this election yet Nitish Kumar, the JD(U)'s leader, who has many Muslim followers, refuses to appear alongside him.

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Schmooze institutional investors, harangue drag-butt executives, negotiate megabuck deals.

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Why not harangue business for its shortsighted political monotheism?

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Its most dramatic tactic was to have all 17 of her Secretariat colleagues sit at Leung's side during the four-and-a-half-hour Legco harangue, although some were less than happy to be there, left.

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David Blunkett was so impressed by one famous episode that he used it to harangue civil servants who he felt were more concerned with efficiency of process than actually delivering services to the public.

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The eternally elastic vowels of the Cantonese language bounce around the lanes as the traders harangue suppliers, and shoppers demand only the fattest fish and are told in return that they will have to pay more.

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Mr Santelli's televised rant against bail-outs has gone down in history as the birth harangue of the tea-party movement, which went on in double-quick time to capture the Republican Party and yank the whole of American politics sharply to the right.

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