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Synonyms for censure

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for censure

to find fault with

to feel or express strong disapproval of

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Synonyms for censure

harsh criticism or disapproval

the state of being excommunicated

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It is evident from these considerations, that the plurality of the Executive tends to deprive the people of the two greatest securities they can have for the faithful exercise of any delegated power, first, the restraints of public opinion, which lose their efficacy, as well on account of the division of the censure attendant on bad measures among a number, as on account of the uncertainty on whom it ought to fall; and, second, the opportunity of discovering with facility and clearness the misconduct of the persons they trust, in order either to their removal from office or to their actual punishment in cases which admit of it.
NNA - AL SHARQ AL AWSAT: Turmoil in Tehran as Gulf moves towards suspending agreements Britain and Malaysia confirm to KSA their censuring of Iranian attack on Saudi embassy AL ANWAR: Future Bloc discusses the use of continuing dialogue with Hezbollah AL MOUSTAQBAL: Future Movement censures return of Hezbollah's threatening rhetoric with talk of black shirts and May 7 ANNAHAR: International movement between Riyadh and Tehran around Lebanon Future Bloc discusses whether or not dialogue with Hezbollah should continue AL JOUMHORIYAH: Berri: Presidential case is frozen Dialogue on Monday to activate Cabinet's work and avoid collapse R.Z.
The censure resolution passed by the assembly was presented in the house by PPP MPA Dr Sikandar Ali Shoro, which was read as: "This house strongly condemns and censures Mr Muhammad Shaharyar Khan Mahar, MPA/Leader of Opposition, Provincial Assembly of Sindh for the gross disorderly behaviour of tearing the prestigious Book of Rules of Procedure of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh and throwing it away in the air.
Global Banking News-July 22, 2014--Australian securities regulator censures Royal Bank of Scotland
CENSURES A DEVASTATING BLOW TO KAN CABINET (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from The Yomiuri Shimbun's editorial published Nov.
L-Bmdr Wilson's case was the first of two Crown censures heard yesterday.
Moreover, not only is there no textual defense for inter-branch censure (at least not outside of the impeachment process), the Constitution expressly forbids it through its prohibition against bills of attainder.(25) For, as the Supreme Court has recognized on numerous occasions, the rule against bills of attainder prohibits all forms of legislative punishment, even that which merely condemns and censures but does not inflict a more tangible form of punishment.(26) One might even argue that censure unconstitutionally interferes with the President's pardon power(27) by imposing punishment "beyond the reach of executive clemency."(28) (And contrary to conventional wisdom,(29) federal courts do have power under Article III to adjudicate claims of injury to personal reputation alone.(30))
House rules also allow that censures could lead to calls for a special session of the MPR, which has the right to impeach the president.
L'auteur debute son etude par d'interessants prolegomenes qui proposent diverses definitions de la censure et distinguent, notamment, une censure <<institutive>> d'une autre <<constitutive>>.