What came clear in some of the testimony was that when they were reprimanded, either they had failed to generate enough profit for the firm in a particular transaction, they hadn't generated enough revenue for the firm or they hadn't demonstrated that they were smarter than the guy on the other side of the trade.

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Bangladesh wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim was reprimanded for showing dissent when dismissed in the first innings.

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When he left prison, MacStiofain was reprimanded and replaced in March, 1973, by Seamus Twomey.

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Perhaps it was the chador, or the stilted words she chose, but when she spoke I felt like a Catholic schoolgirl being reprimanded by Mother Superior.

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Military criminal investigators said the suspect was recently reprimanded for insubordination and was told he would stay behind when his unit left camp for Iraq, Time reporter Jim Lacey said.

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On top of his indictment and the Abramoff connection, he was reprimanded three times by the House Ethics Committee for misusing his post when he was majority leader.

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In one case the manager was reprimanded and demoted, and in the other his behavior was so egregious that when HR investigated, my incidents with him were merely the tip of the iceberg and he was fired for his on-going unethical behavior.

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