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"Censure" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Will you screen me from public censure?
A serious linguistic institution won't ever censure a translation, it does not matter how dirty or rude it feels when reading it.
I proposed a vote of censure on the government.
Shyness can be defined as the fear of censure, shame as the confidence that it is inevitable.
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
The Constitution gives each house of Congress the ability to punish its members for disorderly behavior or criminal misconduct through a reprimand, censure or expulsion.
Some members of parliament are threatening to censure her if she does not resign from both the parliament and the Cabinet.
He knew the inebriating sweetness of popular applause, and the bitter revulsions consequent on its change into public disfavor and censure.
Censure, which arraigns the public actions and the private motives of princes, has ascribed to envy, a conduct which might be attributed to the prudence and moderation of Hadrian.
Both the censure and the praise were merited.
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After his actions were challenged by foreign governments and Parliament initially tried to put a stop to his action, Denman returned home and argued his case with enough force that, by 1848, the Royal Navy was handed active permission and encouragement to raze every last slave factory they could find to the ground, and full authority to stop any ship, of any flag, that was thought to be a slaver, with a guarantee with^([sic]) no censure from the government.
He that hath past / So many Cenſures is novv come at laſt / To haue your princely Eares, grace you him; […]
[E]xcommunication […] being the chief ecclesiastical censure
Take each man's cenſure, but reſerve thy judgment.
I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.
The Woodwalton signalman, Rose, who was severely censured in Captain Tyler's report, behaved with great negligence.
Cultural norms and social rules regulate whether someone can be among others or will be isolated, whether the sick will be considered foul or acceptable, and whether they are to be pitied or censured.
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, a key lawmaker in Democrats’ congressional investigations into former President Donald Trump during his presidency.
Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.
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