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1 To remedy the error, the gamers had to ignore a park ranger’s remonstrations and linger past closing time.

2 Argentina, meanwhile, saw their output dwindle to a handful of forward darts by Messi and the occasional remonstration with Lopes for going longer than 10 minutes without producing a straight red.

3 Amid preparation for his fifth tilt at the one so many presumed would come easiest to him, McIlroy’s remonstrations that joining the pantheon is the farthest thing from his mind have been exemplary.

4 China were therefore bumped down to silver amid angry remonstrations between their team and International Cycling Union officials.

5 There have been a few half-hearted remonstrations from former GOP officials and commentators.

6 It was a foolish and unnecessary incident by the £24m-player whose childish remonstrations and actions have overshadowed his good performances this season.

7 After several minutes of discussions, and despite her remonstrations, it was ruled an illegal effort - a decision British Athletics appealed, only to later withdraw it after accepting it was a foul.

8 The crisis, in which more than 500 people have been arrested and about 150 injured over the last two weeks, has brought remonstrations from the U.S. government and attracted wider attention.

9 The heroine’s unruly imagination is suddenly tethered by this vigorous remonstration from General Tilney.

10 Governments across Africa, as well as the African Union, have been summoning Chinese ambassadors for remonstrations about the treatment of their citizens.

11 I’m hard-pressed to believe a protest out of sight would’ve been as memorable as what became of their remonstration in plain view.

12 He has drawn nothing but scorn from Democrats and even some Republicans who view his remonstrations as the height of hubris from someone they blame for many of the country’s difficulties.

13 Squads of children chattered and squabbled in the waggons, a shrill feminine voice now and again rising high in remonstration.

14 Several neighbors had remonstrated against the request for variance, for which the Griffith Board of Zoning Appeals granted a favorable recommendation to the town council.

15 The crisis, in which more than 500 people have been arrested and about 150 injured over two weeks, has brought remonstrations from the U.S. government.

16 Their grandmother paid them a visit, to remonstrate with Marlene and accuse her of going off the rails.

17 It is beyond us why the generals would keep pressing this destructive dispute, even after hearing remonstrations from President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

18 The allegations drew denials from Abbas's Palestinian Authority and Hamas's administration, along with remonstrations that Human Rights Watch had not sought their formal "case by case" accounts of the seven incidents detailed in the report.

19 My driver remonstrated with him, until a man in civilian clothes behind us offered help.

20 After remonstrations by the Americans, China agreed to give the drone back “in an appropriate manner”.

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