Sentence examples for were condoned from inspiring English sources
verb
To forgive, excuse or overlook (something).
Such tactics, Mr. Kertzer insists, were condoned by church officials at the highest level.
They were loosely licensed as privateers, and their actions were condoned, with the state sharing in their plunder.
After years of secrecy and shame, in this one moment with her, all my frustrations were condoned and my body, my very being, was justified.
"If they thought these acts were condoned, then why were they only done a few nights between 0200 and 0400 instead of during any time between 0600 and 2400 when there were many others around?" Colonel Phillabaum asked.
"Yet they were condoned in a corporation engaged in an activity that no less a witness than former BP chief executive Tony Hayward himself described as comparable to exploring outer space".
The belief that "other governmental agencies were conducting interrogations using harsher techniques than allowed" under Army rules fostered "the belief that such methods were condoned," according to the report released on Tuesday by the panel headed by James R. Schlesinger.
"It would appear we were condoning it".
Somehow they thought we were condoning what he had [allegedly] done," Ripke said.
Nothing else is condoned".
Not that snobbery is condoned.
