The Koran, for example, doesn't condone stoning.

And who, I hope, will condone my faults on the Day of Judgement.

And who, I hope, will condone my faults on the Day of Judgement.

(b) To strive to change attitudes that condone or normalize any form of violence against children

Because there's a sport, there's an activity going on that we're all aware of, that we condone.

Yet the Lebanese Government continues to condone Hizbullah operations launched from its territory, even those that show a complete disregard for the Blue Line.

While his country valued dialogue and cooperation, it could not condone any attempts to infringe its sovereignty and neither would any other Member State.

The laws of war condone targeted killings only of combatants who directly participate in hostilities. The killings must be proportionate, strategically necessary, and publicly justified.

There should be no uncertainty on this matter it is unacceptable for any community to condone the kidnapping, binding, gagging and murder of innocent civilians.

Here, few students would condone blocking technological progress. Banning the light bulb because candle makers would lose their jobs strikes almost everyone as a silly idea.

Uganda did not condone impunity and favoured efforts towards reconciliation, calling for the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) to be provided with robust forces.

By pronouncing ourselves clearly and positively in that regard, Member States would send a message of their resolve not to encourage or condone the diversion of those weapons to illicit networks.

(i) To strive to change attitudes that condone or normalize any form of violence against children, including cruel, inhuman or degrading forms of discipline, harmful traditional practices and all forms of sexual violence

Grave statements by political leaders prominent people that express support for affirmation of superiority of a race or an ethnic group, dehumanize and demonize minorities, or condone or justify violence against a minority.

But once they've gone from being transgressive people whose behaviors we don't want to condone to being AIDS victims, we come over all compassionate and buy them incredibly expensive drugs for the rest of their lives.

It goes beyond abdication of legal and moral responsibility in the border conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia to create a dangerous precedent to condone the violation of the rule of law and the integrity of arbitration processes.

It is proper to assume that Secretary Rumsfeld did not condone, let alone order, the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. There may be the vexing question of whether instructions or reports passed over his desk that contained relevant information.

Right wing populist parties in Europe regularly whip up popular sentiment against Muslim minorities by condemning their treatment of women. There is no doubt that many Muslim men treat women in ways that most modern people in the West would no longer condone.

More importantly, it is imperative for US policies to be consistent across regions. How can the US Treasury, on the one hand, periodically flirt with labeling China a currency manipulator and, on the other hand, condone a similar strategy in oil exporting countries?

Most Muslims are not violent revolutionaries who condone, let alone admire, mass violence. ISIS seeks to broaden its support, especially among young Muslims, by convincing them that true Muslims are in an existential war with the West that the infidels are their mortal enemies.

Last summer, I took an informal poll at a meeting of Wall Street investors to find out whether they would condone the use of torture to prevent a terrorist attack. The consensus was that they hoped somebody would do it without their knowing about it.

In essence, the advice was along these lines efforts should be made to integrate leaders of the militia in the Government of National Unity there should be provisional immunity extended to the various rebel groups so as to ensure immediate peace, and this is not to condone impunity.

NEW YORK The selection of the American nominee Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank, over Nigeria s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, who was overwhelmingly regarded as a vastly superior candidate, is impossible to condone but easy to explain. It also points to serious dangers for the unfinished task of development.

To criticize Israel s strategy as flawed is not to condone the acts of Hamas or Hezbollah or to deny Israel s right to self defense. It is merely to point out what should be obvious Israel s efforts to find a unilateral solution to its security problems whether occupation, withdrawal, or separation have failed.

The majority of Arabs may not support al Qaeda, but they do not oppose it with all their heart. Instead, there is the temptation to regard Osama bin Laden as a type of violent Robin Hood, whose actions, while impossible to condone officially, have helped them to recover a sense of Arab pride and dignity.

To express guarded optimism about the Greek deal is not to condone the provocative arrogance of former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis or the pointless vindictiveness of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Neither is it to deny the economic criticism of the bailout provisions presented by progressives like Joseph Stiglitz and conservatives like Hans Werner Sinn.

We would think differently if Gates and Buffett had enriched themselves not through perspiration and inspiration, but by cheating, breaking labor laws, ravaging the environment, or taking advantage of government subsidies abroad. If we do not condone redistribution that violates widely shared moral codes at home, why should we accept it just because it involves transactions across political borders?

The study s conclusions applied only to Germany, but its main findings were largely corroborated by a Gallup global survey. According to Gallup, only 7 of Muslims are politically radical and condone the use of violence, and their motives are not so much religious as inspired by the demeaning political and social treatment that Muslims are perceived to suffer.

3.1 The complainant alleges that article 2 of the Convention has been violated because the various acts of the Spanish political and judicial authorities effectively legitimize the practice of torture, leading torturers to believe that they are virtually immune from prosecution, and demonstrating that the authorities condone serious ill treatment that can be classified as torture.

Japan crossed that line in the 1990 s, as its corporate zombies prevented the painful but necessary adjustments in its post bubble economy. That could happen in the US if Washington continues to favor policies that condone the reckless excesses of the recent past and inhibit the deleveraging and balance sheet repair that America s zombie consumers now need for post crisis healing.

I. Shihata, Human Rights, Development and International Financial Institutions , American University Journal of International Law and Policy, vol. 8 (1992 1993), p. 27, considered the different case of a loan which is not directly targeted to a project involving an infringement of human rights when he held that a loan agreement to a country which violates such rights does not in itself violate any human rights rule, or for that matter, condone violations of such rights .