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14 total sentences available.
The good fairy who had saved her life by condemning her to sleep a hundred years was in the kingdom of Matakin, twelve thousand leagues off, when this accident befell the Princess; but she was instantly informed of it by a little dwarf, who had seven-leagued boots, that is, boots with which he could stride over seven leagues of ground at once.
Source: tatoeba (6211740)
There were calls for a new UN resolution condemning North Korea.
Source: tatoeba (10817008)
The nuclear test led directly to a new UN resolution condemning North Korea.
Source: tatoeba (10817020)
But he did make an oblique reference to the deteriorating human rights situation, one that the White House has increasingly become more public in condemning in recent weeks.
Source: tatoeba (11165139)
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Closest matches include castigation, censorious, censoriousness, censure, condemnation.
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