Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underestimated the evil in unregenerate man," Malone concludes. But as a remarkably cheerful old man, Malone, himself now 89, cannot condemn Jefferson for so noble, so American a fault. -Melvin Maddocks
...comfortable when repeating familiar ideology, envisioning "the first beginning cracks, the beginning of the end" for Communism. On topical foreign policy questions, however, he seemed awkward and unsure. When he tried simultaneously to condemn yet to defend Israel's bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor, he literally lowered his voice. In answer to one question, he made a serious error of fact-calling Syria's SA-6 antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon "offensive" weapons, even though they are defensive...
This week the Arabs will ask the Security Council to condemn Israel. In addition to calling for sanctions, which almost certainly will be vetoed by Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U. N. Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi has demanded that the council order Israel to open its own atomic facilities for inspection and subject them to the safeguard system of the IAEA. Israel's U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Blum, on the other hand, has proposed making the Middle East a nuclear-free zone?a ploy that would require Arab states to recognize Israel as an equal partner...
Meanwhile, Iraqi reaction to the raid has continued to be remarkably restrained. The country's basic strategy so far seems to be to let Israel condemn itself with its own words. Iraq has already earned a wide measure of world sympathy. A violent, desperate act cannot yet be ruled out, but Iraq does not seem interested in wasting valuable support...
...broadened that definition on occasion to include pre-emptive attacks when there was overwhelming evidence that an aggressor planned a hostile act in the immediate future. In 1967, for example, the U.N. Security Council did not condemn Israel for its Six-Day War attack on Egypt, since there was evidence of Egypt's aggressive intentions. Says Christian Tomuschat, professor of international law at the University of Bonn: "It always comes down to the same question: Was there a real and imminent danger that would have justified a preventive strike...