Sentence examples for cannot but condemn from inspiring English sources

In Iraq, President Saddam Hussein called an emergency meeting of his inner cabinet, and a communiqué issued afterward said, "True believers cannot but condemn this act, not because it has been committed by America against a Muslim people but because it is an aggression perpetrated outside international law".

However, we cannot but condemn certain 'lefties' who have no hesitation in joining forces with the reactionaries, so that they do not appear to be lagging behind in supposedly defending human rights.

All of these priests have done something wrong, but the church cannot openly condemn them, or throw them out of the priesthood, still less hand them over to the secular authorities.

But we cannot condemn the mother.

And we in Britain cannot smugly condemn Hungary, of course: since the Brexit vote, xenophobic nationalism has marched defiantly.

The Lib Dem leader cannot credibly condemn Mr Cameron as a completely useless prime minister when he has been his deputy for half a decade.

Where one would condemn a composer who had never got beyond the stage of rough writing, one feels with a composer such as Holst, whom one has admired and revered for the felicity and purity of his earlier style, that one cannot wholly condemn; one can merely question, and while admiring put in a plea for the unintellectual view.

The Cardinals cannot completely condemn sexual abuse by priests without condemning their own.

"He is Rimbaud," Cocteau declared; "one cannot condemn Rimbaud".

Ignore The Naysayers One cannot condemn a man or woman for following a dream.

"Because if you are no longer inside [the profession] they cannot condemn you.