Sentence examples for decrying for from inspiring English sources

"It's what we've been decrying for a long time," said Hervé Gouamene, the president of a human rights organization here.

Bensel-Meyers has been decrying, for some time now, what she sees as the exploitation of athletes and the subversion of the humanistic values of the academy.

Look at what happened to Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who bloggers have been decrying for demanding that President Obama strip $870 million for pandemic flu preparedness out of the stimulus spending.

The American business community that The Standard identifies as having a hammerlock on Bush administration China policy is the same one that liberals have been angrily decrying for its hammerlock on Mr. Bush's relaxed policies about carbon dioxide in the air, arsenic in water and ergonomics in the workplace.

No linguist joins a Safire in decrying, for example, split infinitives, as if it was ungainly that Star Trek opened with "to boldly go where no man has gone before" (note that "to go boldly where no man has gone before" is what sounds ungainly).

Even if you accept his highly debatable premise that the Affordable Care Act is irreparable, what he's saying is that because he and the Congress his party controls failed at the first hurdle, they will now do nothing to solve the problems with the American health care system they themselves have been decrying for seven years.

In western Washington, they were decried for being too stringent.

I've been decried for a heinous act.

Computers are often decried for lacking common sense.

The launch of Britain's national electricity grid in 1933 was decried for desecrating the landscape.

Shows like "The Bold and the Beautiful" were decried for licentious plots dependent on bed-hopping.