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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