It's not the socialist way to berate anyone just for the sake of it - but Boris made the speech, not me.

He still berates the audience of course, but with an excuse - his Meniere's disease condition is exacerbated by flashing lights, so camera phones are kryptonite - and he's quick to soften the blow by following the rant with "I love you though".

Some berate the residents of James Turner Street, Winson Green, for their lifestyles.

I witnessed a young college student who had made social justice work her career break into tears after listening to a crowd berate young Catholics for ignorance about their Faith.

I expect it will still be awhile berate the situation improves, but odds are it will.

Critics continued to berate the policy as a prelude to land nationalization, however, and as an attack on all private property.

In former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich's Locked in the Cabinet, self-interested bozos berate an intellectually honest cabinet member who is concerned about the growing gap between rich and poor.

Power companies berate them for scaring the public, and the public berates them for not being able to say for sure whether a high-current electrical wire running across the backyard might induce leukemia.

"How many of those wholehearted conservationists who berate the past generation for its short-sightedness in the use of natural resources have stopped to ask themselves for what new evils the next generation will berate us?" asked Aldo Leopold in the October 1925 issue of this magazine.

However, the pair both have reservations and seek advice from Sheldon, who is busy learning Chinese so that he can berate the restaurateur who has been giving him orange chicken instead of his preferred tangerine variety.

We are seeing it every week where players and managers will berate the referee at the end of the game and it seems to be getting worse.

I hear he has taken to phoning up journalists to berate them.

But although you may berate Marie for her distinct lack of taste, at least she's sticking to what she knows best.

as the most logical instrument for peaceful settlement of Third World crises in a chaotic post-cold War world, the Clinton administration has chosen to berate the organization as unwise (in Somalia), cowardly (in Bosnia), and inept (in its bureaucracy).

Back on April 13, 1992, Beckwith - identifying himself only as "Dave" - called a San Antonio radio talk-show to viciously berate Kimberlin, who was being interviewed on-air from prison.