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reproach for/with

She reproached her son for coming home late. 彼女は帰宅が遅かったからといって息子をしかった.
He reproached his pupils with laziness. 彼は生徒たちを不勉強だと言ってしかった.

up for grabs 容易に手に入る、よりどりみどりの

The job is up for grabs now. 今なら仕事の口がある

A bit melodramatic, perhaps, but the Sept. 11 vote, in which all 480 seats of the Diet's lower house are up for grabs, is the climax of a longstanding power struggle between Koizumi and rebellious lawmakers deeply entrenched within his own Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

emphatically 強調して、断固として、力強く、きっぱりと

He emphatically denied that he had accepted a bribe. 彼はわいろを受けたことをきっぱりと否定した。

Junichiro Koizumi told the public repeatedly and emphatically that he wanted the election on Sunday September 11th to be about one issue: Japan Post.