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How to use condone in a sentence

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And please, before anyone writes in to suggest that we condone acts of violence, be quite clear, we do not.
Opponents of the death penalty in no way condone McVeigh's crime of mass destruction.
We're never asked to identify with Walter, to fully understand his impulses, or condone his past behaviour.
We don't often condone active political behaviour here at Directory but the least you can do is be part of the election.
Mazzini looked to Rome where, to his relief, Pius IX had lost favour with liberals after refusing to condone the war against Austria.
Whatever the circumstances, you can't condone working while you are supposed to be off on the sick.
I certainly do not condone illegality, but I strongly reject the idea of Mr Citizen becoming a dobber!
The matter of the United Kingdom being engaged in a war which few of us condone far transcends the triviality of local affairs.
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.
He said he could never condone her reaction but her emotions were understandable.
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.
At first a strong advocate of Black separatism, he was prepared to condone violence as a means of self-defence.
Why would a judge make a habit of not assigning counsel or, in a contract system, condone lawyering that is like nothing at all?
I would condone it myself but the point is, it was self-defence and protection of that child.
However, it did find that the state was in no way complicit in, nor did it encourage or condone, such behaviour.
Only with great reluctance does Moses condone the possible introduction of a monarchy in the future.
What kind of sick society is it, in these refugee camps, that a mother could condone the suicide, at any age, of her son?
It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context.
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.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
There are faults, and these of a kind this present age is ill-disposed to condone.
The ladies, watching him, seemed by their eyes to condone the mawkishness of the demonstration which had tempted him.
I simply do not understand your language, and even less can I condone your haste!
She could even understand those facts, though she could not condone them.
That erstwhile habit of Sakr-el-Bahr's was one not easy to condone.
Sin itself is often easier than simpleness to pardon and condone.
White Ribbon Day, is an annual event to get men and boys to pledge never to commit, condone or remain silent about abuse against women and girls.
Rock 'n' roll antics and Test cricket are unlikely bedfellows and I cannot condone such high jinks.
But this is not to condone the stuffiness of the Church, specially the blue-rinsed brigade that makes up the House of Laity, which torpedoed the women bishops vote.
What king, savage or civilized, could condone such impudence?
A woman of Spanish blood does not condone such an injury so lightly.
You will the more easily condone any mental abberation upon your own part when you realize that even I have had moments when my balance has been disturbed.
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