Indeed, many liberal commentators try to condone their passivity by deploring the absence of non-violent protests in Kashmir and Palestine (never mind the fact that the first intifadas in both places in the late 1980s turned violent only after being savagely suppressed).
I would never try to condone what he did, or would ever be interested in a project that tried to sympathize with him, but I wanted to examine my own feelings to see how they matched up with Ramirez's.
"It's a really good part, and you know, even if they're bad, you don't condone them but you try to make them human beings".
Mr. Duggan's brother, Shaun Hall, told Sky News he did not condone the riots, and asked that the rioters "Please try to hold it down.
In an earlier tweet, Ms. Griffin had appeared to try to mitigate the impact of the image, saying, "OBVIOUSLY, I do not condone ANY violence by my fans or others to anyone, ever!
Republicans plan to try to eliminate that provision, a vote that Democrats say will force Republicans to declare whether they condone torture.
What remains to be seen is if Twitter will try to disable these third party services, or if it simply doesn't want to be officially condoning the practice.
I have always heard people on the Right try to call out all Muslims for not standing up to Islamic extremists, insinuating that they must agree or condone the actions of the extremists, proof being their silence.
But they were also at pains to try to reassure the British public that all three agencies followed British law, sought authorization from appropriate cabinet ministers, did not condone torture and had learned from their mistakes, both foreign and domestic.
If he was unaware of the spending spree that was daily condoned by the fees office, he was incompetent; if he knew about it, why didn't he try to put a stop to it?
Nobody would condone fighting or anti-democratic behaviour, but in France you barely get much more than a shrug of the shoulders – even when the tricolour is being used to try to incite hatred.
