Its pages carried the work of many of the Soviet Union's leading writers, and a good number of them were either censured or denied further publication there for expressing impermissible political views.
It could do that through censure, through denying funding to the unconstitutional program, or through impeachment.
(Aiken had been censured for denying that he had signed a document that he had in fact signed).
Those found in violation of the code can be denied membership, censured, placed on probation, fined or expelled from the organization, but the suit contends that the policy has never been truly enacted or enforced and has not resulted in zero tolerance for sexual abuse and harassment in the sport.
Father Maciel, who has denied the accusations, was censured by the Vatican last year.
As a result of that censure (and rumors of alcoholism), the Democrats denied him renomination on their party's ticket, which led him to seek re-election as an independent, handing the seat to Sen. Lowell Weicker, a Republican and later turned independent, who later served as governor.
Pilgrim Baxter, the firm, neither admitted nor denied the findings but did consent to censure and a cease-and-desist order.
Amaranth, which was based in Greenwich, Conn., also was censured under the agreement; the firm neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing.
Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez, a Brooklyn Democrat, was censured last year after accusations of sexual harassment; he has denied wrongdoing, but remains the subject of a criminal investigation.
He was censured by the Commons standards and privileges committee, though he denied making financial benefit from the arrangement.
