Sentence examples for censure of a from inspiring English sources

A State Senate panel recommended the censure of a lawmaker accused of groping a male page in a motel room bed.

Censure of a President has been occasionally proposed — in 1999, forty-four Democratic senators supported censuring Bill Clinton, as an alternative to impeaching him — but has been done only once, in 1834, when President Andrew Jackson incurred the displeasure of Henry Clay's Whigs in their struggle over the national bank.

Censure of a scientist by the ORI for serious infractions usually results in an agreement banning contracts between that scientist and the Public Health Service for a period of time, the length of which is determined by the severity of the infraction.

A censure of any kind would be a powerful, if merely symbolic, critique of the behemoth.

That rare public censure of an Academy Awards contender — "Zero Dark Thirty" was nominated for five awards, including best picture, on Thursday but did not get a best director nod — provoked an equally rare response from Amy Pascal, the co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which released the film in the United States.

The censuring of a show in Berne, Switzerland, led to the resignation of the great curator Harald Szeemann in protest.

This isn't a censuring of the young quarterback; it's a censuring of a Jets coaching staff that doesn't seem to realize there's a reason no other team in pro football has committed so heavily to a dual quarterback offense.

The prime minister's censure of Jack Walker, a senior adviser to the defence industry minister, follows the release and return of the so-called "budgie nine" to Australia after spending four days in detention in Malaysia.

Serious legislation and political altercations have occurred in the 19 lame-duck sessions held by Congress since 1940, including the censure of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy; a gas tax increase; a huge and contentious land preservation measure; and, in 2010, a vote to overturn a 17-year ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military.

John Weidman, president of the Dramatists Guild of America, apologized for a mistake he made in his censure of Hedy Weiss, a theater critic for The Chicago Sun-Times.

However, environmentalists said the proposal flew in the face of a censure of the commission by the EU ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, earlier this week for accepting proof of a pesticide's safety after its use had already been authorised.