But when India, a democratic country with an unblemished record of non-aggression stretching back several centuries, tests nuclear devices, the world is appalled.
As chairman Tony Hayward put it: "Her record of non-executive director appointments, activist involvement and industry advisory board service is also an excellent complementary skill set to our Board.
"I would have said very clearly that the party has a proud record of non-violence, and the suggestion that we would ever be supporting Al-Qaeda or IS or any terrorist group is ludicrous.
Market force The plot thins Quiet time ReprintsThe manoeuvre has blemished Hong Kong's record of non-intervention in the stockmarket since 1987's global crash, when it halted trading.
"Adani has a track record of non-compliance with environmental conditions in India – why take the risk with our climate and Great Barrier Reef?" Gautam Adani, the chairman of Adani, said the project would provide a significant economic boost to Queensland.
Having chopped and diced the past few years' numbers and adjusted for changes to accounting rules, Albert Edwards, a market watcher at Dresdner Kleinwort, even reckons that the recent profits record of non-financial firms is no more impressive than in the mid-1990s.Bricks mid-1990s.Bricks and perhaps bigger source of concern is the housing market.
I put this defanged, declawed record of non-advocacy down to my perception, as I wrote, that "nowadays, the media seem mainly concerned with dining with people they ought to be mainly concerned with dining on".
He said: "It is shocking that Strathclyde police had to incur the costs of security at Hampden for Olympic football because of G4S failures and now, with a record of non-performance, the Scottish government chooses to give them yet another opportunity to let down taxpayers and citizens across the country".
"I hope that today's decision closes a dark chapter in Microsoft's record of non-compliance," Kroes said in Brussels on Wednesday morning, repeating her rhetoric last October that she hoped she and Microsoft could "just close this dark chapter of our relationship".
Anytime this record of non-accomplishment is raised, Democrats have a predictable response: the GOP blocked us.
The Orlando attacker may have been a self-loathing gay man while the Nice killer had a combative divorce along with a long record of non-ideologically linked petty crimes.
