The complainants objected that the advertisements were offensive and condoned violent and anti-social behaviour. |
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A former CIA director has exclusively told ITV News that torture is condoned and even approved by HIS government. |
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Most such marriages, however irregular their original arrangements, were sooner or later accepted and sometimes even condoned by the king. |
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The carnage was tacitly condoned by public officials and law enforcement officers. |
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Am I to gather from this that adultery and unfaithfulness are being condoned? |
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As president, Jefferson authorized or condoned a variety of federal aids to religion. |
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The same would apply to members of other parties who deny that they approved of or condoned the deeds done by their members. |
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Many believed that slavery was a barbaric and primitive institution and that those who condoned it were, therefore, primitive and barbaric. |
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They condoned actions such as assassinations, bombs without warnings and the summary execution of informers and traitors. |
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The King himself condoned extramarital behaviour and had at least one lover of whom his wife was well aware. |
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In Hyderabad, the emperor in the name of purifying it and ridding it of infidel Hindu Brahmins condoned heinous activities. |
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If bad deeds are encouraged and condoned, this merely provides an incentive for them to multiply. |
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No one, regardless of their moral depravity, should be denied medical care, but neither should moral depravity be condoned and tolerated. |
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Media excesses or lapses are condoned by a public which reserves its ire for the political class. |
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Fines would be levied for parentally condoned truancy, to prevent truancy worsening or to combat persistent late arrival. |
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This type of behaviour can never be condoned and the match officials must ensure that a repeat of such behaviour will never happen again. |
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Yes, he did go over the top and such behaviour cannot be condoned, though in the circumstances it is hardly to be wondered at. |
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The concept of secrets leads on to group behaviours that are condoned but not desirable. |
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Holding on and expanding nuclear arsenals, should be condemned rather than condoned or tolerated. |
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Without a full and transparent investigation with appropriate corrective action, these behaviours will be seen as condoned and even rewarded. |
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Indeed, if painlessly killing and eating the explorer were the only way for the family to survive, then perhaps this action would be morally condoned. |
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Nobody in Parliament today has condoned or justified the terrible act, but all have called for justice. |
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He has certainly not condoned or excused racist violence or thuggery. |
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It may be prohibited in the existing civil or common law, but be widely condoned by customary and religious laws and practice. |
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But if it is proven that News Corporation's managers condoned lawbreaking, they should not be running any newspaper or television firm. |
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Unfortunately, this behaviour is condoned by almost everyone. |
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This court also condoned Ireland's actions to impound the aircraft pursuant to the EC regulations. |
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Abuse cannot be condoned, but cricket authorities can sometimes be accused of oversensitiveness about the odd obscenity muttered in the heat of the moment. |
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Moreover, neither the Polish government in exile nor the leaders of the Home Army condoned anti-Semitic measures. |
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He allowed me freedom that my mother would have never condoned, and with it I forged an identity that I love. |
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Historically the criminal law system has justified and condoned male violence against women. |
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The coaches thought that if it seemed like they condoned it, people wouldn't let their kids come play for Baylor. |
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This is not to imply that the violence was trivialised or glamorised or even condoned. |
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Although perpetrators of honor crimes often cite religious justification for their acts, these crimes are not condoned by any religious text. |
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Although most of the hostages were released unharmed in exchange for the rebels' safe passage to their hideouts, this act of terrorism cannot be condoned. |
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No one condoned roadblocks and the destruction of property as a means of protest. |
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While no country could claim to have a perfect human-rights record, cases in which Governments had condoned and often been the instrument of human-rights violations particularly merited attention. |
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While the inhuman policies of National Socialism in Germany were not replicated in Canada, institutionalized and officially condoned racial intolerance was practised in this country over many decades. |
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The parallel here is not exact, since Woolas impugned his constituency opponent, whereas Carmichael condoned an enterprise designed to damage a whole political party. |
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According to the norms of contemporary society, road rage leading to physical violence resulting in personal injury should not be condoned or encouraged. |
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A complainant challenged whether the ad condoned or encouraged gambling behaviour that was socially irresponsible or could lead to financial harm. |
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Serious violations of human rights cannot be condoned, not even if they are perpetrated by people who originally had similar political objectives. |
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The Conservative government made ringing declarations of accountability and respect for the opinion of voters, yet it has condoned and even encouraged floor crossing. |
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Such methods cannot be condoned as upholding justice as claimed by Prime Minister Hun Sen and Prince Norodom Ranariddh, principal instigators of the unlawful vote. |
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We wrote the Service again in May 2000 asking whether the inmates who were subject of the strip search had been notified that the technique was not condoned and offered an apology for the Service's inappropriate action. |
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Program management condoned this practice during the subject project work cycle and at no time advised the supervisor that track speed should not be increased until tamping was completed. |
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Dadaist reaction against an incondonable reality also meant reaction against all who condoned that reality. |
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Looting was never condoned by Allied forces, and perpetrators were punished. |
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Abortion is condoned only in cases of rape, incest, fetal abnormalities, or when a mother's physical or mental health is at risk. |
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Some abolitionists argue that retribution is simply revenge and cannot be condoned. |
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Afterward someone told the woman that Awlaki had condoned the attacks. |
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Papal bulls from the 1400s condoned the conquest of the Americas and other lands inhabited by indigenous people. |
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The frequency of this image was such that it condoned, encouraged and glamorised smoking, especially by young girls. |
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He condoned the show trials of men like Laszlo Rajk in Hungary. |
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Judging by current adverts in the GDN, off-plan apartment sales without strata title are apparently still being condoned in 2014 by the powers that be. |
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It is his persuasion that abortion should never be condoned. |
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