Pilloried

Sir David said if Parole Board members felt they would be "pilloried" for making a mistake that was "bound" to have an effect on them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sir Michael Scholar warned they were being 'pilloried' for publishing objective information and insisted immigration statistics had been released as they were clearly 'in the public interest'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sir Michael Scholar's accusation that statisticians are being "pilloried" for publishing independent and objective statistics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is the nasty addiction to foreign oil way over half of US consumption that makes it a major foreign policy issue and one that the president should address quickly before the U.S. is again pilloried for supporting non-democratic regimes. ❋ Macha Levinson (2011)

This book excels most when Brown, used to being pilloried in the British press, grudgingly drops his defenses long enough to get personal. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On the one side they will find themselves and their colleagues pilloried at town meetings for voting to abolish Medicare. ❋ Robert Creamer (2011)

It's the same feeling I get when I'm not really paying attention to a conversation and laugh at the joke before processing that the joke's been made at the expense of Catholics, or some other easily pilloried group. ❋ Sabina Murray (2012)

And for what offense has he been pilloried by the censorship squad of NPR? ❋ Emilio Karim Dabul (2010)

We should worry less about physicians being pilloried for eating corporate bagels and be more concerned about the decisions they make about patient care after having fed from the corporate trough. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Journalists have been excoriated for missing what was apparently obvious; homeowners blamed; Wall Street pilloried; economists accused of intellectual dishonesty. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2011)

He pilloried the Vatican for trying to recruit children from public schools into parochial institutions. ❋ Heather Haddon (2011)

On the immigration issue, they also show their mean streak. “There are eleven million people living in the United States who immigrated illegally, and all the Republican candidates oppose virtually any path to citizenship,” writes Ken Auletta in The New Yorker. “When Newt Gingrich recently proposed offering legal residency – not citizenship – to those who have been here longer than 24 years, he was pilloried.” ❋ John Feffer (2012)

Subprime mortgage companies are being and/or will be pilloried for this, but Wall Street and the unduly insured banking industry are in it up to their teeth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now those lawmakers — Rick Boucher in Virginia and John Boccieri and Zack Space in Ohio most notably — are being pilloried for their troubles. ❋ Gerald F. Seib (2010)

Do you want your doctor pilloried for eating a corporate bagel while getting useful product information that might benefit you? ❋ Thomas P. Stossel (2012)

Step back to August, when the Jets were pumping their Super chances, the Eagles had pronounced themselves America's Talons, and the Giants were getting pilloried for a lack of free-agent signings and letting players like Steve Smith escape. ❋ Jason Gay (2012)