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The U.S. Senate voted to censure which senator by a vote of 67 to 22 in 1954?

censure

[sen-sher] / ˈsɛn ʃər /




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I don’t think anyone can, or should, draw a straight medical line from a Communist Party censure to a cancer diagnosis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

While Pastef's majority in the National Assembly can censure the government, in the event of a deadlock the president can resort to "exceptional powers" to govern by decree for three months, noted Diallo.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Discrimination, harassment and sexual violence against women remain huge challenges, but feminism has become such a polarised term here it is often levelled as a grave charge, inviting witch-hunts online and censure offline.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

Noem was the public face of that disapproval, strutting forward with arrogance in the face of public censure, a veritable clown show of ineptitude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

Her tone couldn’t have held more wonder and censure if Zooey’s pores had been exuding crude oil.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

It still demands collusion, censures dissent, confuses the exertion of power with the protest against it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

Gorsuch said that didn’t mean all censures are alike, and that such condemnation sometimes might not be acceptable, depending upon the recipient.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022

He said he generally also does not favor censures.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022

I cannot approve of the reviewer’s censures upon my manner of treating the doctrine of predestination.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

The committee can take a wide range of actions if it substantiates the allegations in an investigation, including recommending that a member be reprimanded, censured or removed, or referring the conduct to the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

These censured the king and his ministers with remarkable brazenness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

It could also ask for him to be formally censured at a future council meeting.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

It’s infrequent that a judge is publicly or privately censured.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2025

The Senate investigators didn’t agree; the committee censured the police superintendent.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Critics are censuring Mr. Warsh for turning his back on those goals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

In an exactly split tally, half of voting members supported censuring Block, but the measure did not pass because it required a simple majority.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024

But make no mistake about its significance: Parliament censuring a man who was prime minister as recently as September in the strongest possible terms.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2023

North Carolina State Representative Mark Brody, who supports censuring Sen. Tillis, says it is better to address differences directly.

From Reuters ● Mar. 3, 2023

The Russians were censuring his behavior in front of his friends and the world press.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady


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