Crossword clues for condemning
condemning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Condemn \Con*demn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Condemned; p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning (? or ?).] [L. condemnare; con- + damnare to condemn: cf. F. condamner. See Damn.]
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To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.
--Shak.Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
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To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.
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To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe.
--Milton.To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan.
--Gray.And they shall condemn him to death.
--Matt. xx. 18.The thief condemned, in law already dead.
--Pope.No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn.
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To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver.
--2 Cron. xxxvi. 3. To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
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(Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
Syn: To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge.
Wiktionary
n. condemnation vb. (present participle of condemn English)
WordNet
adj. containing or imposing condemnation or censure; "a condemnatory decree" [syn: condemnatory]
Usage examples of "condemning".
Security Council to pass a series of resolutions condemning the Iraqi invasion, demanding that Iraq withdraw, and imposing severe sanctions on Iraq for failing to comply.
The life Marcus Calvert had blown, condemning his son to sit out his own existence in a habitat on the edge of nowhere.
Without either condemning or ratifying the choice of the British army, Galerius accepted the son of his deceased colleague as the sovereign of the provinces beyond the Alps.
Yet only a few pages further we find Gibbon loudly condemning the French and Latin readers of Procopius.
The rude jurisprudence of the decemvirs had confounded all hasty insults, which did not amount to the fracture of a limb, by condemning the aggressor to the common penalty of twenty-five asses.
It made no difference, the shriek of hatred and all the threats, the curses condemning Quinn to an eternity of damnation, were left jailed inside his skull.
A weak failure condemning her to sitting out her empty life in the grand old country house, working studiously for the right charities, pitied and avoided by the social vixens she’d once counted as her closest friends.
He had assumed that they of all people would despise Jesus and Allah and Buddha and the other false Gods for condemning them to an agonizing limbo.
A motion of impeachment was put before the Govcentral Grand Senate, condemning the President for not informing the senatorial defence committee in advance.
Washington intended to take the matter to the Security Council, and it expected to be able to get a resolution condemning the Iraqi actions as a "material breach" of the cease-fire, thereby justifying the use of military force.
Instead, Washington and London persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution condemning Iraq's decision and calling it a "totally unacceptable contravention of Iraq's obligations.
On November 7, the United Nations passed another resolution condemning the Iraqi decision but again refused to include the critical "material breach" language.
Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution condemning "the systematic, widespread and extremely grave violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law by the Government of Iraq, resulting in an all-pervasive repression and oppression sustained by broad-based discrimination and widespread terror.
It means condemning the Iraqi people to decades more terror and torture under Saddam's totalitarianism.
Resolution 660 was the first UNSC resolution after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, condemning the invasion and demanding that Iraq withdraw immediately.