Sternly criticizing the judge who handled the case, a Federal appeals court yesterday reversed the 1988 racketeering convictions of eight men, including the reputed former head of the Genovese crime family.

Nevertheless, Mr. Gorbachev showed no inclination to give in, sternly criticizing wrongheaded "command and pressure" management techniques.

Azraq despised the opportunist and changing political posture of Afghanistan's politics and sternly criticised its paradoxical nature.

Rather than sternly criticizing liberal mores, Reagan tended to ignore them, preferring to praise conservative ones, finding in small human examples object lessons of traditional virtue.

Speaking recently to a group of high school students, Mr. Booker sternly criticized the mayor for raising money from developers with business interests in Newark.

The five-page judgment sternly criticised the manager of the workshop, William Brady, for his investigation into the allegations, describing him as 'obstructive and biased'.

The state board sternly criticized tentative agreements Mr. Gulotta had reached with three unions for county police officers, detectives and correction officers.

Yet at the same time, he sternly criticized how choices were made on which substances and practices to regulate.

Mimi sternly criticised Cynthia for divorcing Lennon-and letting him start a relationship with Ono-by saying she should have stopped him from making "an idiot of himself".

Polish bishops sternly criticized this peculiar act of devotion.