But such censure often failed to recognise the historical and institutional frame of his analysis, which included the common law's traditional bias towards property rights protection and the fact that access to the courts has been restricted to all but a handful of wealthy people.
Efforts earlier this week to get Security Council authorization for punishment, or even censure, of Assad failed because of opposition by Russia, Syria's most powerful ally and one of five permanent members wielding veto power within the sole U.N. body empowered to impose sanctions.
The multimillionaire property developer returned to work as deputy mayor on Wednesday evening, arriving in a Ferrari to a council meeting which tried and failed to censure him.
After the Castro revolution, he became one of the most eloquent spokesmen of the new regime, censuring Orígenes poets who failed to become actively involved in the revolution.
In an effort to be trustworthy, people can subject themselves to social constraints, as someone does when she publicly declares her intention to lose weight, putting herself at risk of public censure if she fails.
The Whigs tried repeatedly to add to the bill a sentence disavowing any censure of Judge Hall, but they failed.
In a letter to parliament before the vote, he responded to its previous censures by complaining that it had "failed to specify what pledge of office has been violated".
In a letter to parliament before the big vote, he responded to their previous censures by complaining that they had "failed to specify what pledge of office has been violated".
The announcement called to mind the popular NBC television drama "The West Wing," on which the president, Josiah Bartlet, was censured by the Senate for having failed to reveal that he had multiple sclerosis in his national campaign.
On Wed., in the Chamber, the motion of censure, against de Gaulle's govt. failed by 11 votes, so the Pompidou cabinet is still breathing stertuously.
