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censure

[sen-sher] / ˈsΙ›n ΚƒΙ™r /




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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

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

Fine has not appeared fearful of censure or any loss of his committee assignments.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

She ran through the kitchen, ignoring Mama’s and Cook’s yelps of surprise and shouted censure, grabbed the saltshaker off the prep table, and climbed the stairs, her short legs pumping hard up the grand staircase.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

In the statement announcing the removal of the former prince's titles, the Palace said: "These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him."

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

He said he generally also does not favor censures.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022

“It’s like we have one every day,” Bowman said of the censures, spooning himself some asopao de camarones, a shrimp and rice stew, at a D.C.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022

These censures are generally passed by scholastic theologians.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente

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

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2025

In response, Mr. Karrubi is neither punished nor censured.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

They subsequently won back their seats in special elections, while a third legislator, state Rep. Gloria Johnson, was censured but not expelled.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025

The trial committee had recommended that she be prohibited from serving as a guild captain for three years and censured privately.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

For this he was censured in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, who called him the corruptor of the Roman army.

From "The Prince" by NiccolΓ² Machiavelli

“If it takes collective action…it does so at the price of censuring any minority who do not agree with the view adopted.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

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

For decades after, Congress reconvened only intermittently to take pressing post-election actions, like censuring Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 and impeaching President Bill Clinton in 1998, or to resolve particular legislative debates.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

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

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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