Sentence examples for provoke censure from inspiring English sources

British historians have echoed Napoleon's criticism, judging that Centurion was at Linois's mercy and that he had failed to destroy her, in words of William Laird Clowes, because of his "half-hearted and timid action... [that] cannot but provoke censure.

The forums have provoked censure by local governments, a number of lawsuits and, in one case, criticism by relatives after a woman in Austin, Ind., killed herself and her three children this year.

Rather than ensure the capture or destruction of Centurion, Linois refused further combat for fear of damaging his ships in shallow coastal waters and withdrew, again provoking censure from Napoleon.

The strategy provoked widespread censure.

Josefa Iloilo, the president of Fiji who in 2009 provoked worldwide censure by tossing out the island nation's Constitution, firing its judges and naming himself head of state, died on Feb. 6 in Suva, Fiji's capital.

Hair swept back and tinted, they would totter perilously along the streets in hotpants and high heels, adjusting their make-up every few steps, without provoking the slightest censure from the devout Muslims all around.

Hillary Clinton provoked ridicule and censure for tone-deaf comments at a conference in India about the differences between the states that voted for her during the 2016 presidential election and those that voted for Donald Trump.

As the national election campaign took shape early in the year, Italy's attention turned to Naples, where the closure in late 2007 of waste-disposal incinerators and local mismanagement attributed to organized crime gradually led to the accumulation of tens of thousands of tons of garbage in city streets, provoking local outcries and censure from the European Union.

The event provoked nary a whisper of censure in the German press.

Whatever terms of censure or praise photographs might provoke have already been applied to Ms. Mann's work.

The newest polls suggest that nearly half the public would be angry with Congress for impeaching Mr Clinton, and that almost as great a proportion would be angry if they let him off; censure is the only option unlikely to provoke a backlash.