"Over all, we condemned about three or four pizza places on Second Avenue," Horodniceanu said, assessing the aboveground collateral damage resulting from the city's use of eminent domain.
From the beginning of the war, the shooting of deserters or "cowards" was severely enforced: the French condemned about eighteen hundred soldiers, and shot six hundred, and the British shot around four hundred.
For the next phase of the redevelopment to continue, the town must condemn about four dozen neat, small homes on streets leading to the beach.
While there's certainly plenty to condemn about the toxicity of modern American culture—über-capitalism, prison- and military-industrial complexes, uniquely poisonous strains of racism and misogyny— American Gods, though quippy and clever on a line-by-line basis, is a novel mostly guided by an old-man-yells-at-cloud philosophy that doubts modern America cares about anything of value.
We, who are so quick to condemn others about human rights, must deal with our own dark deeds first.
So, don't let anyone try to condemn you about anything.
Hacks, politicians and spin doctors are condemned to scurry about, indulging in wanton political frottage, while the TV networks flaunt their ever expanding array of debate-related gizmos: live worms, insta-polls, giant malfunctioning touchscreens, mobile Karen Silkwood shower units.
In "Camera Lucida" (1980), the philosopher Roland Barthes, looking at a photograph of a condemned man about to be put to death, wrote about the strangely mixed "anterior future" tense of photographs, the morbid idea embedded in all of them: "This will be and this has been.
In April 2009, speaking in Prague, he condemned "fatalism" about the spread of nuclear weapons.
North Korean diplomats in New York and Seoul have condemned speculation about Kim's grip on power as an attempt to destabilise the regime.
George Galloway has been sacked as a columnist on the Scottish political magazine Holyrood after he refused to retract his widely condemned remarks about the rape charges facing Julian Assange.
