censure
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Girls and women who have their mother's names do not face the same censure - and often when they marry may opt to take their husband's first name as their surname.
From BBC β Jul. 11, 2026
"If the deputies decide to table a motion of censure or no confidence, they are capable of doing so," he added.
From Barron's β May 24, 2026
Mr. Buruma resists glib post hoc censure, acknowledging that German civilians “lived in constant fear of their own government.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Mar. 13, 2026
Noem was the public face of that disapproval, strutting forward with arrogance in the face of public censure, a veritable clown show of ineptitude.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 6, 2026
Ophie bit her lip once she got the question out, waiting for the censure she was certain would follow.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
"These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him," the statement continued.
From BBC β Oct. 30, 2025
It still demands collusion, censures dissent, confuses the exertion of power with the protest against it.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 10, 2023
He said he generally also does not favor censures.
From Seattle Times β Feb. 4, 2022
“It’s like we have one every day,” Bowman said of the censures, spooning himself some asopao de camarones, a shrimp and rice stew, at a D.C.
From Washington Post β Jan. 28, 2022
The fiscal gave this as an instance of the contempt of the count for the censures under which he pretended that he had fallen, as the principal instigator of the first revolt.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
The committee can take a wide range of actions if it substantiates the allegations in an investigation, including recommending that a member be reprimanded, censured or removed, or referring the conduct to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 17, 2026
The senator made the case for his record and censured Mr. Paxton for unethical behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal β Feb. 27, 2026
It’s infrequent that a judge is publicly or privately censured.
From Slate β Dec. 11, 2025
They subsequently won back their seats in special elections, while a third legislator, state Rep. Gloria Johnson, was censured but not expelled.
From Salon β Oct. 14, 2025
“That’s your own fault,” Milo censured them both self- righteously.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
“If it takes collective action…it does so at the price of censuring any minority who do not agree with the view adopted.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 2, 2026
The county would end up filing a lawsuit in August against Viet America Society and censuring Do in September.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 22, 2024
But make no mistake about its significance: Parliament censuring a man who was prime minister as recently as September in the strongest possible terms.
From BBC β Jun. 19, 2023
North Carolina State Representative Mark Brody, who supports censuring Sen. Tillis, says it is better to address differences directly.
From Reuters β Mar. 3, 2023
“I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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