Any condoning of torture by the United States risks increasing what is already a worldwide public health epidemic.

But African officials have long been sympathetic to Zimbabwe despite the government's crackdown on the opposition and its condoning of violence.

President Bush should issue a public, unequivocal statement that rejects any condoning of torture by United States officials, just as his father did in 1992.

Mr. Oltman said members of his local group "thought it was just one more example of the condoning of illegal immigrants."

Secondly, and more damning, is Anderson's apparent condoning of Jets who spit in the face of a teammate.

Some Administration officials last week criticized Father Aristide for what they said was his condoning of mob violence by his supporters.

Along with our condoning of Jordan's purchases, this turns economic sanctions to force Saddam into compliance with his surrender terms into a dead letter.

"The attention and legitimacy he gave to the 'birther' movement - and CNN's condoning of his actions - did real damage to that credibility.

But any condoning of torture by the United States endangers innocent civilians worldwide living under oppressive regimes that routinely practice torture.

Our condoning of supplemented performance - induced legally by creatine or illegally by stronger stuff - resembles the cultural endorsement of appearance at all cost.

This condoning of mass killing has shocked and repulsed many Israelis, including Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

He added, "I think the Soviets can only regard this as a condoning of what has gone on in the past and a free hand to do what they want in the future."

In contrast to earlier years, when access was the primary issue, recent events have focused on such provacative questions as lewdness and the condoning of sexist behavior by some officials and coaches.

"One would have to say that this was the greatest failure of the founding fathers in terms of statesmanship," Mr. Foner says, referring to this tacit condoning of slavery.

Supporters of Question 1, like the 98-year-old Christian Civic League of Maine, a Protestant group based in Augusta, worry that anti-discrimination measures imply a condoning of homosexuality.

The British Brigadier Frank Crozier, technically in command that day, later resigned over what he believed was the official condoning of the unjustified actions of the Auxiliaries in Croke Park.

A lonely sentence about the condoning of torture being "arguably the largest personal moral failure of Tony Blair's premiership" has clearly been inserted at a late stage and is not backed up with the investigative rigour it merits.

Among those who believe Bush puts political expedience above principle, there is no more damning evidence than his decision in March to slap punitive tariffs on steel imports, and his condoning of similar anticompetitive favors to the farm and textile industries.

The personality of Arthur Scargill, with his apparent willingness to receive money from the terrorist regime of Colonel Qadaffi's Libya and his condoning of violence, alienated many, including the leader of the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.

You have tried to tell him about the virtues of chastity, of fidelity, of the sacred state of matrimony as the only sanctification for sexual intercourse, and yet he sees all around him pornography, images of sexuality and the condoning of free fornication.

Due tae this failure tae recognise societal reward, success (and failure) can only ever be fleeting experiences for me, as that experience cannae be sustained by the socially-supported condoning of wealth, power, status, etc., nor, in the case ay failure, by stigma or reproach.

Gilmore finishes the chapter by discussing the reception of the policy of absolute contractual liability in Paradine v Jane into the law of Massachusetts, and the Holmesian theorists disdain for the condoning of special damages in Hadley v Baxendale.

She did, but I knew about it and condoned them.

Let me be clear; no one is condoning the President's behavior.

She most certainly at no time condoned what had happened to her daughter.

In some cases, though, it was teachers and school officials who condoned such thinking.

I am not condoning any of these activities and never have.

That she condoned what he'd done and was happy with the way things had turned out?

I mean it's like the father is condoning what they're doing.

The men needed to know I would not condone such acts.

"We do not condone violence even in so good a cause."

Yet there are times when I appear to condone them.

"But your feeling in this case was more than a matter of not condoning it."

What I shall have to do they might understand but could not condone.

After all, we can condone liberty only up to a point.

"Some of the parents condone what students do because this is the way it's always been," a teacher said.

And by all signs this one was at least condoned.

They're still together but she says to forgive is to condone.

Naturally he could not condone a relationship of any kind between them.

But, he said, the company did nothing to encourage or condone such behavior.

There was nothing in the Doctor's past history to make anyone believe he'd condone violence.

Are we, by doing this, condoning their use of drugs?

"Obviously this is not something we are going to condone," he said.

But because the system moved cases along, it was quietly condoned.

What could he tell his children without appearing to condone drug use?

"I would not condone anybody who worked with Clinton at that time," she said.

But in the present circumstances it seemed too much like condoning what had been done.