censure - use in sentences

Object

  • government: Recent attempts to censure the Sudanese Government over Darfur at the Security Council have been effectively wrecked by the Chinese.

Converse of object

  • escape: Kevin Lynch was lucky minutes later when he raised an elbow, but escaped censure.
  • deserve: But the ruling community deserves a censure more severe than that directed against the ruled.
  • attract: Q To be an atheist in his time was likely to attract public censure.
  • avoid: These products are often aimed at the country or colonial market to avoid censure.
  • pass: At the very least, such states should hear a motion of censure passed against them.
  • face: They were charged with slander and faced censure or dismissal.

Adjective modifier

  • ecclesiastical: William acknowledged that he had been constrained by ecclesiastical censure to make peace with Byland.
  • severe: Accidental death with a severe censure for the mother.
  • public: Q To be an atheist in his time was likely to attract public censure.
  • such: Such censure arrived recently, from the least likely of sources.
  • moral: Upon it will fall the moral censure which must accompany the change in our society's relationship to fossil fuels.

Modifies a noun

  • motion: The final vote on the censure motion takes place next month.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: Let your answer be: It is enough for me, that God does not censure my conduct.
  • much: As you can see the letter contains much censure and no praise.
  • publicly: The regulator can publicly censure or fine a company or a director who is knowingly involved in a breach " she said.

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