I would simply ask again, in an earnest way and a heartfelt way, that the majority would consider what we have said about doing this debate and taking this under consideration while our young men and women are in harm's way, and also consider the wisdom of denying an alternative motion of censure when this debate takes place.
They are not always upheld, but they do establish a higher expectation than in a non-professional setting, and a higher degree of censure when those expectations are broken.
He first learned of the censure when he read about it in Spanish in a local newspaper.
The use of torture, the report concludes, has "no justification" and "damaged the standing of our nation, reduced our capacity to convey moral censure when necessary and potentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel taken captive".
The task force found that using torture — like waterboarding, slamming prisoners into walls, and chaining them in uncomfortable stress position for hours — had "no justification" and "damaged the standing of our nation, reduced our capacity to convey moral censure when necessary and potentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel taken captive".
These practices, the nonpartisan, independent legal research group concluded, have "damaged the standing of our nation, reduced our capacity to convey moral censure when necessary and potentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel taken captive".
Only once in the first 50 years of the Fifth Republic, in 1962, did the National Assembly pass a motion of censure, when it stalled de Gaulle's referendum for direct election of the president by universal suffrage, which ultimately met with approval.
He even managed to escape widespread criticism when he recently was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, inducing laughter rather than censure when he explained he had been driving to an all-night store to buy a screwdriver to release a pet cat trapped under floorboards.
Undangerous the newly married woman may be, but why should she escape censure, when other breeds of women – single mothers for example – who would be considered heroic by any sane society, are attacked?
Large TVs glowed overhead with men's ski jumping and an interview with the Olympics swimming star Michael Phelps, who, like Lago, was subject to public censure when photos of him performing party antics appeared online.
