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admonish (one) for (something)

To reprimand one for a wrongdoing. Katherine admonished Theresa for arriving late to work.

admonish someone for something

to warn or scold someone mildly for doing something. The nurse admonished the patient for not eating her dinner.

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Furthermore, it can be seen that all of the significant correlations were positive for Leadership, Helping/Friendly, Understanding, and Student Responsibility/Freedom Behaviors and were negative with Uncertain, Dissatisfied, Admonishing, and Strict behaviors.

Teacher-Student Interactions and Teacher Competence in Primary Science

Confirming the development in a statement forwarded to our reporter on Monday, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command operation Lafiya Dole, said calm had since been restored, as the Theatre Commander, Major General Abba Dikko has promptly taken charge of the situation after addressing and admonishing the troops.

Calm returns to Maiduguri Airport after protest by soldiers

Rather, President Weah says he has selected the officials bearing in mind that they are the right ones to head the various Ministries to which each of them has been appointed and confirmed, admonishing them not to be afraid when they get started.

Weah commissions first 3 officials

Admonishing Sangster, Sheriff Montgomery told her: "Drawing on my experiences of life, I take a much less serious view of these incidents than the Crown do.

HOW DARE SHERIFF FEEL SORRY FOR MY STALKER

"It's highly dangerous for a help line to be admonishing someone who is very well already feeling low self-esteem and suicidal thoughts," he said.

Hotline "saves" gay youths

In court at Aberdeen, Sheriff Craig Caldwell told the father: "I am going to take the very unusual step of admonishing you.''

Dad who hit glue-sniff girl with belt is let off

Challenging the narrow nationalist notions that invite marginal groups to invest in ideas of purity and authenticity that simply mirror the destructive Eurocentric cultural imperialism we would resist, Durham concludes A Certain Lack of Coherence by admonishing Native Americans, and all of us who occupy spaces outside the white mainstream, to remember that "we are from the past, but we echo and reverberate in the present.

A Certain Lack of Coherence: Writings on Art and Cultural Politics

Admonishing Gallacher, Sheriff Michael Meston said:

THUG GETS OFF SCOT-FREE FOR BEATING MOODY WIFE; He blamed attack on her menopause

There will be those who ask admonishing questions before the future constructs another terrible trap: How did sexual abundance as an enhancement of gay life twist into the only thing that mattered?