She seems to invite condemnation ("I am dwelling too much on my own concerns and feelings.
Even the most basic, no-frills campaign appearances on Sept. 11 — candidates "doing their jobs," said Jerry Skurnik, a New York political consultant — are bound to invite condemnation from certain "bloggers and journalists doing their jobs by writing on Sept. 11," Mr. Skurnik said.
Significant cutbacks in economic aid and loans would not be practical because of the nature of the needs on the ground; and using aid to leverage change could invite condemnation by other poor countries.
But it is not just the surge in killings on his watch that has invited international condemnation.
And while terrorist atrocities in Russia, such as last week's bomb in Dagestan, rightly invite western condemnation, so still should Russia's bloody campaign against separatists in Chechnya whenever human rights are trampled on.Other differences are bound to emerge along the way.
Instead, on Friday, Obama used Sochi in his statement as a chastisement: Russia moving into Ukraine militarily "just days after the world came to Russia for the Olympic Games," its failure "to respect the independence and sovereignty and borders of Ukraine, and of international laws," would "invite the condemnation of nations around the world," he said.
In the 1990s, at the peak of Myanmar's opium production, the country's ruling military junta – desperate for good P.R. after a series of crushed pro-democracy protests invited international condemnation – launched its very own war on drugs.
To raise even a small quibble about any aspect of the current campaign to make college campuses completely free of sexual assault and other crimes is to invite immediate condemnation and the accusation that disagreement with specifics of the rules means we must be harboring rapists.
But perhaps the most promising development to emerge within Israel of late is the Israeli police's recommendation that Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's right-wing foreign minister -- whose racist sentiments and policies towards his country's own Arab minority have invited international condemnation -- be indicted on a series of corruption charges including bribery, money-laundering and embezzlement.
Their playful and ironic acceptance of regressive lad culture invites, and even dares, condemnation from academics and the uncool.
