And please, before anyone writes in to suggest that we condone acts of violence, be quite clear, we do not. |
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Opponents of the death penalty in no way condone McVeigh's crime of mass destruction. |
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We're never asked to identify with Walter, to fully understand his impulses, or condone his past behaviour. |
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We don't often condone active political behaviour here at Directory but the least you can do is be part of the election. |
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Mazzini looked to Rome where, to his relief, Pius IX had lost favour with liberals after refusing to condone the war against Austria. |
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Whatever the circumstances, you can't condone working while you are supposed to be off on the sick. |
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I certainly do not condone illegality, but I strongly reject the idea of Mr Citizen becoming a dobber! |
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The matter of the United Kingdom being engaged in a war which few of us condone far transcends the triviality of local affairs. |
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While I do not condone some of the more rapacious acts of Australian companies, I am not so sanguine about local small scale operators either. |
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He said he could never condone her reaction but her emotions were understandable. |
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At that point the only way they would condone it would be if Turn 13 was slowed down through the use of some sort of chicane. |
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At first a strong advocate of Black separatism, he was prepared to condone violence as a means of self-defence. |
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Why would a judge make a habit of not assigning counsel or, in a contract system, condone lawyering that is like nothing at all? |
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I would condone it myself but the point is, it was self-defence and protection of that child. |
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However, it did find that the state was in no way complicit in, nor did it encourage or condone, such behaviour. |
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Only with great reluctance does Moses condone the possible introduction of a monarchy in the future. |
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What kind of sick society is it, in these refugee camps, that a mother could condone the suicide, at any age, of her son? |
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It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context. |
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But what is harder to condone than the folly of youth is the sight of the game's senior figures acting like petulant, paranoid brats. |
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Unfortunately today's parents condone their child's bad behaviour and think it's normal, and God help anyone who disagrees. |
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We cannot condone a religion or a political party that ignores the rights of half the human race. |
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that if we desensitize ourselves enough, we can condone any immoral action. |
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Although we can't condone such fraudulent behaviour, it must come as a relief to his family to see him in gainful employment at last. |
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This was not a school agreed protest and we did not sanction this or condone it in any way. |
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Equally, I do not condone the supply of arms to such regimes, sanctioned by our own successive governments. |
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I cannot condone the knocking down of old ladies in pursuit of a Panzers bagel, but sometimes there isn't any other way. |
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I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash. |
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This is not to excuse or condone the excesses of his regime, nor is it an apologia. |
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Do those campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis automatically condone heroin use? |
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We cannot condone terrorism, but the way to end it is not through a vicious spiral of violence. |
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Maidenly honour is tricked into a fatal moment of weakness which the ballad-monger, as though with a sly wink, seems actually to condone. |
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A state's truant officers can also discipline the parents of delinquent students if they either aid or condone their children's misconduct. |
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Of course, the university didn't condone his actions, but nobody contacted any authorities to chase him off campus. |
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The Edmonton native questions the mechanisms that allow us to condone military bombing raids on civilians while we demand that gang warfare be severely punished. |
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Of course, conventional training wisdom doesn't condone this. |
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The international community is therefore in duty bound not to condone a policy that penalizes a people for exercising their right to free choice. |
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I was certain that New Orleans, louche and corrupted in my view, would condone my recreancy. |
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The union does not under any circumstance condone violence of any kind, including against police officers. |
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Canada should be a leader, it should show the way to other countries, and it should not condone such practices. |
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The grand intelligent design blueprint surely would not and could not condone such a partition. |
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We certainly do not condone preying upon endangered species as the European community often does. |
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The wearing of a white ribbon by men and boys is a pledge never to commit, condone or remain silent about gender violence. |
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Does the government condone the overthrowing of democracy on campuses by the Conservative Party? |
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This was a terrible war, and I certainly abhor what has happened-I don't condone it. |
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Maybe that's the price we've got to pay, which is not to say I condone fasting, bingeing, dieting, regain – of course I'm not. |
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To be against jailing people for such offences is not to condone what they do, merely to apply some sense of proportion. |
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The head of that group, KC York, said she has no interest in looking up the names of trappers, and she does not condone harassment. |
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The government does not accept or condone work that is clearly substandard or deficient in the variety of ways that have been identified. |
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Therefore to do nothing is to condone human rights abuses wherever they occur. |
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Speaking with them does not condone what they have done, but excluding them certainly does not enable us to get to the table to resolve issues. |
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The United States did not condone the use of capital controls, and their efficacy should not be assumed. |
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It shows that the international community will not sit idly by and condone crimes against cultural property. |
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None of us can look children in the eye, if we continue to approve or condone any form of violence against them. |
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We call on all parties concerned not to remain indifferent to this question and not to condone further suffering. |
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The PSAC is appalled that Treasury Board and agencies still continue to condone this practice. |
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However, we do not condone our public figures being as disagreeable and disrespectful when voicing another opinion. |
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It doesn't for a second condone these violations to say that, in the context of the nakedly described terror and confusion of war, they become more comprehensible. |
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No matter where you are from, you cannot condone this behaviour. |
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None of which would pardon nor condone the butchery he is said to have unleashed. |
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But it does condone wage slavery, another scourge upon working people. |
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I do not condone the offensive, woman-hating nature of the routines. |
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Unfortunately, however, a surprisingly large number of parents are not only already aware that their children are truanting, they actively condone it. |
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The Spanish guarded their trade routes jealously, and Mary could not condone illicit trade or piracy against her husband. |
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Parents and teachers may not openly condone school failure, but they contribute to it by failing to stress the worthwhileness of working toward success. |
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We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers. |
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This doctrine is similar to stare decisis insofar as it dictates that a court's decision must condone a cohesive and predictable result. |
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Although society cannot permit any substantial threat to public safety, it cannot condone hasty assumptions about the capabilities of the handicapped. |
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The procedure adopted by the Agency to deal with the consequences of the financial controller's refusal to give his approval is as open to criticism as the practice that he had refused to condone. |
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Judge Piers Grant said the courts could not condone actions such as kneecapping. |
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It noted that missionaries could not take servants with them, and also that the board did not want to appear to condone slavery. |
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Nobody can condone his reaction but it always the retaliator that is punished not the person who starts it. |
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No one in mainstream politics can condone what seems to be a move by senior figures in French football to ethnically cleanse the profile of the game. |
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The United Nations should not condone such appalling conduct by any of its Member States, whereby the wishes of the Organization are flaunted without any consequence. |
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The policy printed on bright yellow paper is a message to all activists that the union will not condone or tolerate behaviour or attitudes that humiliate, degrade or demean others. |
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Neither can I condone the use of a masculine pronoun referring to the neuter word skald. |
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It seems somehow to parallel, and I do not say this glibly, the notion of pre-emptive war, the idea of a perceived threat from another nation would thereby condone an attack against that said nation. |
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I certainly don't condone the actions of these individuals, but let's be a little bit choosier with our adjectives. |
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Inaccuracy apart, the accusation of indifference comes ill from those who will condone almost any imposture directed at almost any victim, provided another pair of hands gets stained the color of their own. |
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One cannot condone a practice with one hand and bellyache with the other when a similar situation arises. |
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Canada's New Government does not condone lawbreaking or violence and believes that unlawful tactics are disruptive to negotiations while placing the public safety of all parties at risk. |
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Advocates cannot condone the use of perjured evidence and, if they become aware of perjury at any time, they must immediately seek the client's consent to bring it to the attention of the court. |
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It also confirms its intention to grant the right to form unions, to not condone child labour and to ensure that there will be annual discussions among unions, workers, the government and entrepreneurs. |
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Although he did not condone what the Applicant did, Mr. Askew testified that he worried about whether the Applicant will be able to provide for himself, his wife and young daughter without a mortgage agent's licence. |
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As well as excluding anything that appears to condone over-consumption in our marketing, we also prohibit anything that undermines the promotion of healthy, balanced diets and lifestyles, or misrepresents snacks as meals. |
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While we couldn't condone this behaviour it afforded us the incredible sight of the mighty beast clambering from the depths to devour the French stick. |
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I am ashamed of you, son. We do not condone theft or violence, Ryan. It is, for one, illegal, and may as such may land you in jail or lead to other punishments. |
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