Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor pull punches
1. Again and again at his inquests, he has refused to pull punches when he believes soldiers have died because of inadequate equipment or avoidable mistakes.
2. When he did drift into the reformist rhetoric that earned him the label of maverick _ which he embraced during the speech _ he had the luxury of being able to pull punches that his friends had already thrown.
3. Reid (Nev.) that Petraeus‘s optimistic assessment of security in Baghdad indicated that the general "isn‘t in touch with what‘s going on," Petraeus said that he has tried "not to pull punches" and to "present both the good and the bad." His report in September, he said, "will be a forthright assessment of what we‘ve achieved and what we haven‘t achieved." Post a Comment Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site.