The size of the Labor vote represented a stunning rebuke of the Conservatives, long one of Europe's most powerful parties, particularly at election time.

Tuesday's was clearly no "average" election, but rather a stunning rebuke of the president and the Republican-controlled Congress.

When the verdict was read, the defendants were pronounced not guilty on all counts, a stunning rebuke to the government.

We have to decide, all you young people have to decide, will we stand as a shining example or a stunning rebuke to the world of tomorrow?

It is as stunning a rebuke as there could have been.

Some appointments were a stunning rebuke to the past.

That stunning rebuke was meaningless.

However, the parliament elected on the same day (with a turnout of about 53%) delivered a stunning rebuke to his neoliberal economic program.

Short of civil unrest, the more pressing concern was that secession issued a stunning rebuke to the very idea of the city.

A stunning rebuke, to the people they thought they had the right to kill them because they had the whole truth.