How To Use Condone In A Sentence

In no way do I condone this behaviour. The Sun
I am speaking of the ease with which motives are impugned, lifestyles derogated, name-calling condoned, individuals and groups demonized. The Ten Commandments
According to numerous opinion polls, they solidly oppose the kinds of discrimination that Cardinal Ratzinger condoned.
That would be to condone incitement to violence. The Times Literary Supplement
Within that, one of the biggest challenges we face is changing the attitudes that condone violence against women. The Sun

I do not condone violence but no wonder our students are protesting. The Sun
What kind of sick society is it, in these refugee camps, that a mother could condone the suicide, at any age, of her son?
I don't condone violence in any shape or form.
Clearly I'm not going to condone such behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
We do not condone violence of any kind and will ensure that anyone found to have acted improperly is dealt with accordingly. Times, Sunday Times
A former CIA director has exclusively told ITV News that torture is condoned and even approved by HIS government.
I cannot condone the knocking down of old ladies in pursuit of a Panzers bagel, but sometimes there isn't any other way.
What indeed - there's nothing in journalism's unwritten Geneva Convention that condones such behaviour.
The Army does not condone any behaviour of this kind and when it is discovered we take action. The Sun
Understanding does not condone behaviour - it enables its management and longer-term social learning. Times, Sunday Times
We do not condone violence of any kind and will ensure that anyone found to have acted improperly is dealt with accordingly. Times, Sunday Times
No parang song has ever created animosity, incited anarchy, induced horning, glorified carnage, supported drug abuse or unprotected sex, condoned domestic violence or maligned any person.
To appear to condone the Confederacy is to appear to condone slavery.
According to numerous opinion polls, they solidly oppose the kinds of discrimination that Cardinal Ratzinger condoned.
Does it, as a global electronics company, condone such behaviour? Times, Sunday Times
Clear Channel, KFI, and John and Ken have been in the wrong to purvey, condone, and sell hate speech in the past and are in the wrong now as they blunder this opportunity to make amends to several key Los Angeles communities. Jorge-Mario Cabrera: John and Ken: The Best Apology Is a Farewell Message
This is because it attacks his'honour' to be thought to condone threats of violence. Times, Sunday Times
We also want the Government to take concerted action to address attitudes that condone violence. Times, Sunday Times
Clearly I'm not going to condone such behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Her lawsuit also charges that Disney parks have a history of fondling complaints involving workers, and that that Disney has "condoned" their actions, putting profits over public safety. Donald Duck's Alleged Groping Victim Gets Day In Court
We don't condone any behaviour like that. The Sun
Not that I condone this sort of activity but I believe the Romans used to say: "a man with a sword is a man who will never starve". Guns for Gift Cards?
Only with great reluctance does Moses condone the possible introduction of a monarchy in the future.
In no way do I condone this behaviour. The Sun
The concept of secrets leads on to group behaviours that are condoned but not desirable.
We cannot condone terrorism, but the way to end it is not through a vicious spiral of violence.
No one should condone violence and abuse at work. The Sun
I don't condone hackery, just realize there is a whole new world out there called penetration testing which is legal.
So condoned biased refereeing is also ‘part of the game?’ The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
I would condone it myself but the point is, it was self-defence and protection of that child.
Let's see ... pornography has been strictly and totally off limits for kids since forever, but letting them virtually hack other people, monsters, and aliens to bloody shreds in exquisite, life-like detail and with the most vicious weapons imaginable is (ho hum) tolerated, if not exactly condoned? High court accepts case over violent video games
Understanding does not condone behaviour - it enables its management and longer-term social learning. Times, Sunday Times
However, it did find that the state was in no way complicit in, nor did it encourage or condone, such behaviour.
Critics charge that Jennings, who is himself openly gay, condoned what they called statutory rape, even child molestation, because they say 20 years ago, he failed to tell authorities an underage student had sex with an older man. CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2009
At first a strong advocate of Black separatism, he was prepared to condone violence as a means of self-defence.
No one should condone violence and abuse at work. The Sun
But that does not condone the behaviour. The Sun
He has certainly not condoned or excused racist violence or thuggery.
But that does not condone the behaviour. The Sun
Our religion does not condone that behaviour. The Sun
Rather than condone our "wasteful, profit-driven, mass-production society", freegans pledge "a total boycott of the economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations".
Within that, one of the biggest challenges we face is changing the attitudes that condone violence against women. The Sun
If the school's overall attendance rate is poor, then the school may well suspect a high level of condoned truancy.
‘Regardless of whether he is a professional there is no way that sort of behaviour should be condoned,’ he said.
She's still angry, and she has a big mouth that gets her into trouble (like when she said girls couldn't play guitar, or appeared to condone firebombing fast-food outlets).
Footballers have a huge impact on young people, which is why his behaviour cannot be condoned. The Sun
You can't condone violence but you can understand it. The Sun
Not that we condone such behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
It's brief, pithy and to the point - but it's also downright ugly and rude, so I don't condone it.
That's why a statement that Hillary does not "condone" the comment is weak tea. Hillary Camp: We Do Not Condone Drug Comment In Any Way
No one can condone chanting like that - in a football ground or anywhere else. Times, Sunday Times
It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context.
This is not to condone his behaviour but perhaps to understand it in a way that is helpful. Times, Sunday Times
No one can condone chanting like that - in a football ground or anywhere else. Times, Sunday Times
Our religion does not condone that behaviour. The Sun
The complainants objected that the advertisements were offensive and condoned violent and anti-social behaviour.
She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities
Ruling in FOIA case condones DOS intransigence on ancient coin import restrictions State Department Adds New Import Restrictions : Coin Collecting News
Whether it’d be culturally condoned or not, poligamy is wrong; female circumcision is wrong; the general opression of women and the impellent force to have them be subservient to men are wrong. Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Teacherly Moments
Of course, the university didn't condone his actions, but nobody contacted any authorities to chase him off campus.
I would condone it myself but the point is, it was self-defence and protection of that child.
I do not condone violence but no wonder our students are protesting. The Sun
He said he could never condone her reaction but her emotions were understandable.
This is not to excuse or condone the excesses of his regime, nor is it an apologia.
People cannot condone the use of fierce violence.
That would be to condone incitement to violence. The Times Literary Supplement
He did not condone violence then and he does not now. The Sun
This is not to condone his behaviour but perhaps to understand it in a way that is helpful. Times, Sunday Times
I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash.
I think French is right to explain (which is not to condone) some of Naipaul's more provocative views as a form of mischief, which Trinidadians call picong, from the French piquant, a type of sharp talk where, in French's words, "the boundary between good and bad taste is deliberately blurred, and the listener sent reeling. The Lessons of the Master
I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash.
There is no age, not even youth, that excuses or condones such graceless disregard for the paths walked by our fellow man and I fear no amount of ‘education’ will shine a light in the minds of such fools.
We don't condone any behaviour like that. The Sun
The church that condones pedophilia while it amasses the greatest fortune on the planet has no right to tell any politician in this country where to stand on any issue. Bishop takes on Kennedy
I can never condone coin-throwing or racial abuse.
You surely can't expect the Church to condone law-breaking en masse! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
As we are discussing the charter itself, regardless of what Mr. Haniye SAYS (Muslims also condone lying if its to the enemy), even the Wikipedia quote says "Hamas's charter calls for REPLACING THE STATE OF ISRAEL (my capitals) with a Palestinian Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
No matter where you are from, you cannot condone this behaviour.
Footballers have a huge impact on young people, which is why his behaviour cannot be condoned. The Sun
The matter of the United Kingdom being engaged in a war which few of us condone far transcends the triviality of local affairs.
The party denies the charges and says it does not condone violence. Times, Sunday Times
But, Dylan asks, why do some Catholics think this means that the Church condones their worldly behaviour?
I do not condone violence but no wonder our students are protesting. The Sun
Equally, I do not condone the supply of arms to such regimes, sanctioned by our own successive governments.
We felt the ad was surreal and light-hearted in tone and was unlikely to encourage or condone cruelty to animals or cause serious or widespread offence. Paddy Power advert gains most complaints in 2010
As one humanely willing to condone the future as well as the past she rolled up her white sleeves without further introspection, and dragged out from the protecting shadow of the sink the "humpiest box" which had so excited her emotions at home in an earlier hour of the day. Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
But that does not condone the behaviour. The Sun
Perhaps I am not tolerant of intolerant people, especially of Stephen Taylor who not only condones such behaviour/remarks/incitation, I think he seeks it! I got your wingnut welfare right here.
Please, do not take this wrong, I do support and condone your part in uprooting and exposing those who claim to be other than they are or were. SHAWN PAUL AKERS
That the Catholic Church's bureaucracy and some of its clergy have been responsible for and/or condoned acts of barbarism is beyond question.
Am I to gather from this that adultery and unfaithfulness are being condoned?
The Army does not condone any behaviour of this kind and when it is discovered we take action. The Sun
If we condone political theft, if we do not resent the kinds of wrong and injustice that injuriously affect the whole nation, not merely our democratic form of government but our civilization itself cannot endure. ' Michael Winship: Washington and Change: Cash You Can Believe In
Not that we condone such behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
We also want the Government to take concerted action to address attitudes that condone violence. Times, Sunday Times
You can't condone violence but you can understand it. The Sun
The Army does not condone any behaviour of this kind and when it is discovered we take action. The Sun
In no way do I condone this behaviour. The Sun
If bad deeds are encouraged and condoned, this merely provides an incentive for them to multiply.
This my swashbuckler misnames sentimentality -- and thus I feel that he always tends to admire the wrong qualities, because he condones even what he calls sentimentality in one whom he chooses to admire. The Silent Isle
This is because it attacks his'honour' to be thought to condone threats of violence. Times, Sunday Times
This is not to condone his behaviour but perhaps to understand it in a way that is helpful. Times, Sunday Times
Not that we condone such behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Clearly I'm not going to condone such behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
And corruption is condoned by powerful grandees in government and business.
Clearly I'm not going to condone such behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
No one, regardless of their moral depravity, should be denied medical care, but neither should moral depravity be condoned and tolerated.
Is it feminist to promote and condone male sexual exploitation of women by attempting to relabel it as a documentary? Response: To fight porn we need to view it, but screening this film is wrong
And please, before anyone writes in to suggest that we condone acts of violence, be quite clear, we do not.
What I DO NOT condone is reducing the debate over an issue to the level of stupid personal attacks. What a bunch of shit!!!!!!!!!
We cannot condone violence of any sort.
As president, Jefferson authorized or condoned a variety of federal aids to religion.
We don't often condone active political behaviour here at Directory but the least you can do is be part of the election.
You can't condone violence but you can understand it. The Sun
The lawless reprobate was condoned by the vices of the lawgivers: condoned, that is, for misdeeds short of murder.
They condoned actions such as assassinations, bombs without warnings and the summary execution of informers and traitors.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that if we desensitize ourselves enough, we can condone any immoral action.
We don't condone any behaviour like that. The Sun
If people are attracted into a particular structure and the structure allows and condones criminal behaviour, when does that cross over into actually being a criminal organisation?
You can't condone violence but you can understand it. The Sun
We can only hope that the vice president will be given the chance to testify about this before a grand jury, after the election, when the Democrats take Congress as the kind of skewered logic that condones torture by linguistic sleight of hand is impeachable, in the best sense of the word. "a little silly"
It's not enough to say you do not "condone" remarks by your own official chairperson and staffer. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Camp: We Do Not Condone Drug Comment In Any Way
What the left does not condone is Israel’s objective of reestablishing a credible deterrent in Gaza. Matthew Yglesias » Goldfarb Endorses Terrorist Ethics
He did not condone violence then and he does not now. The Sun
I have never encouraged nor condoned violence.
Does it, as a global electronics company, condone such behaviour? Times, Sunday Times
The carnage was tacitly condoned by public officials and law enforcement officers.
In no way do I condone this behaviour. The Sun
No one should condone violence and abuse at work. The Sun
If the Clinton camp truly doesn't "condone" this bullshit, Shaheen should be canned. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Camp: We Do Not Condone Drug Comment In Any Way
Most such marriages, however irregular their original arrangements, were sooner or later accepted and sometimes even condoned by the king.
The heavenly pascha of the OT actually condones and commands worse things than rape - things like genocide. Evolution and Liberal Christianity
Let's see ... pornography has been strictly and totally off limits for kids since forever, but letting them virtually hack other people, monsters, and aliens to bloody shreds in exquisite, life-like detail and with the most vicious weapons imaginable is (ho hum) tolerated, if not exactly condoned? High court accepts case over violent video games
And therefore it can be said that their comments were condoned, and that is why I called the remnant of the party that exists today the "despotic rump of maniacs. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
This is because it attacks his'honour' to be thought to condone threats of violence. Times, Sunday Times
Of course I do not condone this, but come on it's a fucking water bottle.
You can use your legal background and your position in the community to help inspire a moral rebirth in a society that condones bad things.
Within that, one of the biggest challenges we face is changing the attitudes that condone violence against women. The Sun
Of course, conventional training wisdom doesn't condone this.
AMANPOUR: Nobody would condone what you described as the lynching this morning. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Ehud Barak Discusses the Killing of Two Israeli Soldiers in Ramallah - October 12, 2000
The report reluctantly condones car sharing, provided that the subjects of this report - the so-called socially excluded - don't own one themselves.
How easily indiscretions, moral weaknesses, and outright law-breaking are condoned/excused for these folks as countless brown-skinned and others get sent to prisons with disproportionate sentencing by race or low income folks pay with years in lucrative prisons? Tea Party Express rallies against 'big government'
The lawless reprobate was condoned by the vices of the lawgivers: condoned, that is, for misdeeds short of murder.
People cannot condone the use of fierce violence.
The party denies the charges and says it does not condone violence. Times, Sunday Times
This is not to condone his behaviour but perhaps to understand it in a way that is helpful. Times, Sunday Times
In an age where the brilliance of modern technology arguably masks the crumbling of Western high culture, it is mere antic passing fashions and facades and socially condoned tackiness which take the place of serious citizenship.
The state has managed both to condone and to condemn prostitution.
Footballers have a huge impact on young people, which is why his behaviour cannot be condoned. The Sun
We also want the Government to take concerted action to address attitudes that condone violence. Times, Sunday Times
I think the repblicans have incited these actions. main culprits Sarah Palin and John McCain L"condoned" these actions. LIVE Blog: House Dems report increased threats
Wherefore the accused, if innocent, may condone the injury done to himself, particularly if the accusation were made not calumniously but out of levity of mind. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
People dont like these kind of pictures , it offends them specially the so called puritanical Muslims..but show them the pictures of the havoc on Iraqi streets , the jehhadi attacks, limbless bodies, they wont find fault with it, as all this spiritual terrorism against Humanity is condoned for the greater glory of Misguided Martydom and radical Islam.. 2008 February 20 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
I am speaking of the ease with which motives are impugned, lifestyles derogated, name-calling condoned, individuals and groups demonized. The Ten Commandments
Do those campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis automatically condone heroin use?
Mazzini looked to Rome where, to his relief, Pius IX had lost favour with liberals after refusing to condone the war against Austria.
Within that, one of the biggest challenges we face is changing the attitudes that condone violence against women. The Sun
Unfortunately, however, a surprisingly large number of parents are not only already aware that their children are truanting, they actively condone it.
Our religion does not condone that behaviour. The Sun
Do you condone his sin?
No one can condone chanting like that - in a football ground or anywhere else. Times, Sunday Times
This is because it attacks his'honour' to be thought to condone threats of violence. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Although sacred images were potentially idolatrous, Luther refused to condone the purge and instead counter-accused the iconoclasts by affirming the impossibility of an image-less faith.
Well, my pet annoyance is people who refuse to acknowledge that drugs (including alcohol) have “uses” other than what the FDA condones. The Volokh Conspiracy » Adderall
Opponents of the death penalty in no way condone McVeigh's crime of mass destruction.
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.
In effect, it officially condoned segregation.
‘Obviously this sort of behaviour should not be condoned,’ he said.
Brown again says that the UK doesn't "condone" torture, and that Sir Peter Gibson will investigate any complaints on the matter, and will report to Brown. PMQs live blog
Understanding does not condone behaviour - it enables its management and longer-term social learning. Times, Sunday Times
The Church traditionally condoned slavery in its numerous forms, too.
We cannot maintain an incorruptible police force in a society that condones corruption.
The party denies the charges and says it does not condone violence. Times, Sunday Times
What I don’t condone is the utter mismanagement that the bush admin did in afghanistan. Think Progress » Coulter: Ongoing Rove Investigation Would Be “Worst Possible Scenario” For White House
When they don’t stick to the fact that our sexuality is designed for intimacy and potential baby-making between a man and his wife – and when they omit the various truths about extra-marital sex. when they condone homosexuality as a mere “difference” in sexuality and forget to tell how promiscuous and diseased is the lifestyle. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
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.
I don’t excuse misogyny–or apoliticism that condones it–for any person at any point in life. Two Critiques Of Ariel Levy’s Writing About Bois
Yes, he did go over the top and such behaviour cannot be condoned, though in the circumstances it is hardly to be wondered at.
This was not a school agreed protest and we did not sanction this or condone it in any way.
This type of behaviour can never be condoned and the match officials must ensure that a repeat of such behaviour will never happen again.
We don't condone any behaviour like that. The Sun
To reiterate my point, making entry to the contest contingent upon using Internet Explorer 8 not only limits participation to Windows users, but suggests that designing pages to favor IE8 over other browsers is somehow okay, or condoned by Microsoft — completely antagonistic to their recent successes in supporting web standards in the browser! Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 at the height of cynicism | FactoryCity
While Miss Lidgett showed some appreciation of the woman's circumstances, she was unable to condone her course of action.
Media excesses or lapses are condoned by a public which reserves its ire for the political class.
The same would apply to members of other parties who deny that they approved of or condoned the deeds done by their members.
It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context.
Terrorism can never be condoned.
He did not condone violence then and he does not now. The Sun
The King himself condoned extramarital behaviour and had at least one lover of whom his wife was well aware.
Mr. Khatami neither "oversaw" torture and murder nor did he condone it. Hooman Majd: You Tell 'em, Gov!
That bill (i.e. -- proposed legitimate gambling zones confined to certain areas surveilled by local police agencies, where cards, slot machines, off track betting and other games of chance will be legal, but heavily surtaxed for State revenue purposes) is a moral outrage that condones compulsive gambling under the guise of political good. White Jazz
At the same time, the reluctance of some women with legitimate causes to plead a suit of force and fear at all, hints that they feared the courts might have condoned the use of coercion.
We also want the Government to take concerted action to address attitudes that condone violence. Times, Sunday Times
The difference is with a spiral approach, the program expects, plans, and condones different configurations, allowing capability to be fielded more quickly.

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