Anti-smoking campaigners and pub trade leaders condemned compromise plans as "unworkable" while the first indications emerged last night that MPs are certain to fight over amendments to tighten the ban.
Senator Richard G. Lugar, the Indiana Republican who recently lost a primary to a candidate condemning compromise, said the Senate was starting to operate as designed.Bills have been passed after committee deliberations, cross-party negotiations over amendments and procedures, and "a lot of time just visiting with each other".
Again, critics say she mismanaged the compromise: condemning Andrew Lansley's health reforms, then endorsing a watered-down variant; putting her Catholicism ahead of her liberalism in arguments over gay marriage.
An awful lot of groups are condemning this week's "compromise" between Congress and the president which raises the debt ceiling and allegedly holds at bay the predicted worldwide economic calamity a U.S. default may have caused.
It is traditional in Chechen culture for women to marry very young – though the practice is strongly opposed by Russian law and even Kadyrov, formerly a rebel fighter, has been forced to condemn it (another instance of compromise).
The vote has been condemned as seriously compromised by the largest local observer group, the Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network.
British politicians are ill-placed to condemn such actions since they themselves were hugely compromised in the scandal over the expenses claimed by members of Parliament — often for items very much like those prized by the looters.
Later Ralph Miliband would condemn the Labour party's "parliamentarism" as a crippling source of compromise and class surrender.
Roger S. Clark, who teaches at the Rutgers School of Law in Camden, N.J., and was one of the leaders of the movement to have the institute condemn the death penalty outright, said he was satisfied with the compromise.
Russia had called the meeting, and while its initial draft statement did not condemn North Korea, Mr. Churkin said Russia had tried two additional drafts of compromise language to incorporate that idea.
