"This is not to imply that the violence was trivialised or glamorised or even condoned.
The parallel here is not exact, since Woolas impugned his constituency opponent, whereas Carmichael condoned an enterprise designed to damage a whole political party.
Cohen said in a letter to the ambassador: "The BBC was disturbed by the violence the team faced during their visit and I know we are agreed that this violence should not be condoned.
A complainant challenged whether the ad condoned or encouraged gambling behaviour that was socially irresponsible or could lead to financial harm.
In some circumstances it is morally and even legally condoned.
Before then it is not necessary because no one has sex outside wedlock, he insists (under pressure he concedes that some might sin but society would collapse were they to be condoned).As Ms El Feki's book makes clear, such claims about the abstinence of young Egyptians are laughable.
He has also put tariffs on softwood lumber, and has tacitly condoned the efforts of Congress to offer more protection to America's dying textile industry.Then came the farm bill, which two months ago overturned the market-based agricultural reforms that were bravely brought in in the 1990s.
The big five accounting firms became the big four, further shrinking an already concentrated industry.The second target of investors' wrath was top corporate executives, and the boards that appointed them and condoned their extravagant rewards.
Some Shia clerics have issued fatwas forbidding the signing of such agreements, on the grounds that their insidious intent is to subvert the rules of Islam.Significantly, however, no recognised religious figure, Sunni or Shia, has condoned attacks on coalition forces.
"The so-called new morality," he said, "is often the old immorality condoned".In 1958 he resigned from the Commons.
But if the suppliers condoned such deadly working conditions, what was the point of those well-meaning efforts?
