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Example sentences for "condemning"

Lexicographically close words:
condemnatory; condemne; condemned; condemnest; condemneth; condemns; condempned; condenados; condensable; condensate
  1. In condemning wealth, Christ condemned merely its source; the kingdom of heaven was closed to wealth because, and only because, wealth could not be acquired except by exploiting the sweat of men.

  2. This does not prevent us in Freeland--as our actions show--from condemning the violence that has been offered to those who formerly were oppressors, and from trying to make amends for it as well as we can.

  3. The archbishop escaped prosecution only by unreservedly condemning the doctrines of Wiclif, burning his books, and prohibiting all lectures upon them.

  4. The system of castes most forcibly contributes to arrest the development of the popular element, by condemning the majority of the people of a country to a state of perpetual abjection and slavery.

  5. At a later period, the fanatical sectaries of England raised the greatest disorders and brought about fearful catastrophes by a similar doctrine, condemning alike the civil and ecclesiastical power.

  6. In the year 296, we see Diocletian and Maximilian, by an edict, condemning to different punishments the Manicheans who had not abjured their dogmas, and consigning their leaders to the fire.

  7. The Council of Sens, out of respect for the Holy See, abstained from condemning the person of the innovator, but did not fail to condemn his errors; and this condemnation was approved by the Sovereign Pontiff, and extended to his person also.

  8. The voice of the judge condemning him will no longer be the august voice of justice; his sentence will only be the act of society avenging the attack made upon it.

  9. Regarding the council chiefly as an instrument for condemning the heretics, the pope was in favor of taking up dogma first.

  10. But when this, after many delays, was about to take place at Coventry, Richard interfered and settled the dispute by condemning Hereford to banishment for ten years and Norfolk for life.

  11. Their prototypes, the ancient Gnostics, are said to have been divided into two parties, the austere and the relaxed; both condemning marriage for opposite reasons.

  12. It is certain that the lords were at Shrewsbury in their judicial character condemning Llewellin; but whether they proceeded afterwards to Acton Burnell, and joined in the statute, is not quite so clear.

  13. Let there be fairness in the discussion of Southern questions, the advocates of both or all political parties giving honest, truthful reports of occurrences, condemning the wrong and upholding the tight, and soon all will be well.

  14. Meanwhile the whole town is talking, and either approving or condemning this edict of Nepos.

  15. Still," say they, "those who are for condemning the accused either capitally or to banishment should be first set in opposition to those who are for acquitting them, and afterwards weighed against each other.

  16. No nation, indeed, can reproach another nation with its addiction to magic without in an equal degree condemning itself.

  17. How melancholy is the spectacle of a man like Hale, condemning Amy Duny and Rose Cullender, in 1664, on evidence which, though corroborated by the opinion of Sir Thomas Browne, a child would now be disposed to laugh at?

  18. General Neill has been much blamed for this order; but in condemning the action we must not overlook the provocation.

  19. The Democrats nominated a ticket divided between Hunkers and Barnburners; and, after condemning the Whig management of the canals as lavish, reckless, and corrupt, readopted the slavery resolutions of the previous year.

  20. Cambreling was conspicuous on the stage, David Dudley Field read a letter from Martin Van Buren condemning the platform and the candidate of the Baltimore convention, and Benjamin F.

  21. Horace Greeley reported its platform, demanding that Congress expressly prohibit slavery in the territories, and condemning the doctrines and methods of the Know-Nothings; John A.

  22. In the legislative investigation that followed, resolutions condemning the commissioners' conduct tangled up Clinton in a division of the profits, and sent McComb to jail.

  23. It was written as a reply to a pamphlet by Steele condemning the Bill, and signed "A Plebeian.

  24. No doubt the enemies of the Tory party had ample ground for condemning and denouncing the Peace.

  25. The presence of a few measles in the flesh of cattle has been deemed a sufficient excuse for condemning and burying entire carcases.

  26. After this specimen of what the public can do for itself, it should be a little slow in condemning what others do for it.

  27. In Vera's absence, Lady Kynaston had thought hard things of her, and had spoken condemning words concerning her; but in her presence all this seemed to be altered.

  28. What is the good of condemning myself to workhouse sheeting for the rest of my days?

  29. The modern point of view, while condemning sophistry, yet often agrees with it in limiting the reflective attitude as such to self-involution and self-conceit.

  30. If ever there was a plan invented for condemning the innocent and the timid, and letting the guilty and the daring escape, it is that of a French trial.

  31. Trimble Rogers tore the water with a paddle, straining every sinew and condemning Blackbeard to the bottomless pit in a queer jargon of the Spanish, French, and English tongues.

  32. Bill Saxby took it like a placid philosopher but the ancient buccaneer was spitting Spanish oaths and condemning the hospitality of Charles Town in violent terms.

  33. It is easy enough to pass resolutions or write articles condemning non-co-operation.

  34. Shall we copy Dyerism and O'Dwyerism even whilst we are condemning it?

  35. Mr. Pennington should moreover have known by this time that the meeting held on the 13th was held, among other things, for the purpose of condemning mob excesses.

  36. Pennsylvania, vigorously condemning the lack of provision for education in the State, and the utterly inadequate provision where any was made.

  37. Riaz Pasha strenuously opposed this, and his nominee Fakri Pasha, Minister of Justice, wrote a counter-report, condemning all the changes which Scott had recommended.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "condemning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.