Sentence examples for could condemn from inspiring English sources

Wells's first chapter offers a quick tour d'horizon of sexuality in Shakespeare's time, which reveals that despite fire-and-brimstone ecclesiastical condemnation, and the existence of so-called Bawdy Courts, which could condemn you to prison or humiliating public penance for carnal lapses, all forms of sexual activity seemed to flourish vigorously.

Sloth and fear are singled out as economic sins that could condemn us to stagnation.

But he acknowledged that the corporation could condemn land to acquire it.

And Turkey could condemn what the Algerians suffered at the hands of the French as atrocity crimes.

He added, prophetically: "I'm glad to say the fates could condemn the Conservatives and the Liberals to form a coalition".

But you could condemn, and even punish, those who made their own comfort at the cost of someone else's life.

I couldn't defend what he did, but I couldn't condemn him as a monster, either.

In this first of his trials, Proudhon escaped conviction because the jury conscientiously found that they could not clearly understand his arguments and therefore could not condemn them.

"Murders could be condemned, bombings could be condemned.

So President Lincoln, for instance, could legitimately condemn the evil of slavery using Biblical imagery, since his pronouncements could have been expressed in terms of the public values of freedom and equality.

I could easily condemn obvious anti-Jewish hatred.