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Discover LudwigThe word 'decries' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to publicly denounce or criticize something strongly. Example: The human rights organization decried the government's decision to cut funding for social welfare programs.
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The report decries the rapid growth of flexible, layered plastic packaging that is not recyclable, citing Kraft's Capri-Sun juice pouches as an example: "If all Capri Sun pouches discarded annually in the United States were laid end to end, they would circle the earth nearly five times; they would also entirely cover the land area of California and Texas," the report says.
There was also a lengthy discussion about whether Pakistan, which publicly decries the drone campaign despite signs that it continues to give tacit approval, should attempt to shoot down US drones in its airspace.
His view on tax reform is heretical as well: he decries tax breaks for investment in physical capital, declaring that taxes on families should be cut instead, since families create human capital.
America decries any wording, however mealy-mouthed, that could increase governments' control over content.A fiercer row is brewing about the rules for online businesses.
The Yoo family, thought to hold 240 billion won, controls 30 companies, from paints to publishing.The Evangelical Baptist Church decries the hunt for Mr Yoo as scapegoating.
Yet, in summing it up, UNEP decries "the declining environmental quality of planet earth", and wags a finger at economic prosperity: "Currently, one-fifth of the world's population enjoys high, some would say excessive, levels of affluence".
So it decries China's "string of pearls" (roads, pipelines and ports being built in friendly countries around the Indian Ocean) as a provocation.
Power politics decides which lives get saved, and which policy aims triumph.Mr Rieff decries a "two-tiered system of interveners and intervened upon", where the "old imperial powers" make the rules.
Echoing a lament heard in pretty much every industry that hires graduates, Evan Chesler, the boss of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, a New York firm, decries "the difference between what law schools teach and what lawyers do".
But PepsiCo, BB&T bank and Eli Lilly, a pharma company, are among donors that announced the end of their support.Mr Bast decries double standards: those who accept global warming routinely call their opponents Nazis, he argues.
Yet impatience with the new rulers extends to other quarters, and other issues.Adnan Pachachi, an octogenarian ex-foreign minister who is the most respected of Iraq's once-exiled politicians, decries the recent American crackdown as an overreaction.
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