For a professional explorer to stumble upon such uncharted territory can be very chastening. |
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After a week of exhaustive shuttle diplomacy, taking in Ireland, Spain and Libya, Blair's two-day stay in Brussels was a chastening experience. |
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The most chastening passage in the book concerns a woman called Lisl Auman. |
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But it will take judgment, chastening, burning sin out, to get the church back where it ought to be. |
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It must be chastening for Australia's leaders that their squabbles seem irrelevant. |
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Selling his city abroad was chastening, the mayor says: most Chinese had never heard of it. |
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Then, too, opposition tends to focus the marginalized mind, undistracted as it is by the chastening realities of power. |
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The chastening effect of defeat in the war seems so far to be having desirable results. |
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Merely reading the published lists is at once enlightening, bewildering, and a chastening reminder of how much we all have still to learn. |
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This chastening experience has challenged many preconceptions about the functioning of modern economies and about globalization. |
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My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of Him. |
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The entire experience was frightening and chastening for the bourgeoisie. |
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They will be better for the chastening experience. |
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It is a chastening thought that medical overprescription of benzodiazepines, resulting in their presence in many households, made them easily available and undoubtedly aided their entry into the illicit drug scene. |
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One of those Mr Ménard accused was a Qatari, whom he fired. Even in a Gulf autocracy as relatively liberal as Qatar's, publicly chastening a high official can be rash. |
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That stopped him from doing much that he wanted. It has been chastening for Ms Rousseff and her party to have been checked in their triumphal progress towards an inherited presidency. |
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In the review in Calgary of the state of health ethics services, some of the comments from the public were chastening, telling us it is immoral to spend money on bioethics when there are many pressing health care needs. |
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For many other Europeans, this experience has been chastening. |
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