Yet Hillary Clinton, the American secretary of state, has taken the lead in censuring him.
The DPJ might half-heartedly pass an upper-house motion censuring the government, but Mr Fukuda could ignore it.
This sounds like a claim that perjury is not perjury if the perjurer deems otherwise.In the end, wavering Republicans may be most swayed by the availability or otherwise of an alternative to impeachment: a way of censuring the president, while pulling back from the responsibility of removing him from office.
France, a relatively big country which once did its part to create the notion of the rights of man, has announced that it will no longer co-sponsor a resolution censuring China for its human-rights abuses.
On May 20th the European Parliament added its voice by censuring Italy for its treatment of gypsies.The frenzied debate that surrounded the drafting of the government's new measures has also revealed pitfalls ahead.
Latin America mostly abstained; Europe mostly joined the United States in censuring Cuba.
Even when he quit the NPT, China refused to countenance a censuring UN Security Council resolution.
After both commending Eyre for crushing the rebellion and censuring him for taking excessive reprisals, the British government recalled him in July 1866.
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 the same year he published the long-announced prints of Marriage à la Mode, censuring the marriage customs of the upper classes, for which he had completed the paintings in May 1743.
When the discontent of his unpaid men came to a head in the circulation of the "Newburgh Address" (an anonymously written grievance) early in 1783, he issued a general order censuring the paper and at a meeting of officers on March 15 read a speech admonishing the army to obey Congress and promising his best efforts for a redress of grievances.
