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Condemn

To adjudge or find guilty of a crime and sentence. To declare a building or ship unsafe for use or occupancy. To decide that a navigable vessel is a prize or is unfit for service. To take privately owned land for public use in exchange for just compensation by virtue of the power of Eminent Domain.

condemn

v. 1) for a public agency to determine that a building is unsafe or unfit for habitation and must be torn down or rebuilt to meet building and health code requirements. 2) for a governmental agency to take private property for public use under the right of eminent domain, but constitutionally the property owner must receive just compensation. If an agreement cannot be reached then the owner is entitled to a court determination of value in a condemnation action (lawsuit), but the public body can take the property immediately upon deposit of the estimated value. 3) to sentence a convicted defendant to death. 4) send to prison. (See: condemnation action, eminent domain, capital punishment)

condemn

(Ban), verb abhor, abnegate, abrogate, bar, blackball, block, boycott, call a halt, cancel, cast aside, cast out, censor, check, counter, debar, deny, disallow, disapprove, discommode, discountenance, disfavor, disown, disqualify, embargo, enjoin, exclude, expel, forbid, forestall, frustrate, halt, hammer, impede, interdict, interrupt, keep in bounds, keep out, keep within bounds, lay an embargo on, limit, make immossible, object, obstruct, oppose, ostracize, outlaw, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, put a stop to, put an embargo on, put an end to, put one's veto to, put under an injunction, put under an interdiction, put under prohibition, quash, quell, refuse, reject, repress, reprobate, restrain, restrict access, retard, seclude, shut out, stop, suppress, thwart, vetare, withhold

condemn

(Blame), verb accuse, anathematize, asperse, assail with censure, attack, berate, bring into discredit, call to account, cast blame upon, castigate, charge, chide, condemnare, criticize, culpare, declaim against, decry, denigrate, denounce, deprecate, derogate, disapprove, disdain, disparage, dispraise, execrate, find guilty, fulminate against, impeach, implicate, impugn, indict, inveigh against, pass censure on, publicly accuse, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, repudiate, take to task, upbraid, vilify, vituperare, vituperate

condemn

(Punish), verb adjudge, administer correction, bring to account, carry out a sentence, convict, damnare, deal retributive justice, discipline, doom, exact a penalty, exact retribution, execute a sentence, execute justice, impose a penalty, impose penalty, inflict penalty, inflict punishment, pass sentence on, penalize, prescribe punishment, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, punire, reprimand, reprove, sentence, subject to penalty, take disciplinary action

condemn

(Seize), verb accroach, acquire, arrogate, assume, assume ownership, attach, compullorily acquire, confiscate, declare to be forfeited, deprive of corporal possession, deprive of ownership, disentitle, disseise, distrain, divest of property, expropriate, foreclose, impound, impropriate, municipalize, nationalize, publicare, sequestrate, take for public use, take over, take possession, usurp
Associated concepts: eminent domain

condemn

to pronounce judicial sentence on someone, usually one of death.

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Condemning the condemners or The administration is blamed for appealing to reciprocity: the act committed, negative attitudes are shown towards the administration or its representatives or the behavior is described as a response to a previous administrative injustice of which the individual was a victim.

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The condemner's offer must include the value of the property taken and, in partial takings, any severance damages to the remainder.

1999 amendments to Florida's eminent domain statutes

The findings showed that the defendants used only two of these techniques frequently: denial of responsibility and condemnation of the condemners (attacking those who criticize them).

Justifying Genocide

Finally, other work discredits the new ideology through the "condemnation of the condemners," identifying the competing interests of other economic actors as the origin of the new ideology.

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Condemnation of the condemners. "The government prosecutors are zeroing in on the administration's political enemies and sparing its allies, who are themselves no strangers to corruption.

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Condemnation of The degree that CC1~3 condemners the violators condemn the condemners to neutralize the compliance violation of the information security policy.

An integrative behavioral model of information security policy compliance

While additional techniques of neutralization have been identified (see Coleman, 1994), this work draws principally from, and extends, Sykes and Matza's five original propositions: condemnation of the condemners, denial of responsibility, denial of injury, denial of the victim, and appeal to higher loyalties to justify or excuse their behavior.

Bike racing, neutralization, and the social construction of performance-enhancing drug use

Many if not most textbook-authors and teachers of Fowler's time, and ours, belong in the third group, the dire condemners. But Fowler sides with the fifth, a club, he writes, that believes "that a real s.i., though not desirable in itself, is preferable to either of two things, to real ambiguity, & to patent artificiality." Writing should be clear and smooth, and if maintaining the contiguity between to and its verb occasions an unclear or jarring sentence, the infinitive in question should be split.

Putting Fowler Back in Fowler's

Senate, for instance, or the "faculty and administrator watchdogs" in academia who pounce on even the slightest slips by those who fail to "observe the regnant pieties regarding race, class, or gender in their public statements." Attacking someone who falls short of perfection, he says, allows the condemners to "displace their guilt onto him, and prove to all the world their own innocence."

Forgive me not

Thomas was "chief among the condemners" of Marshall's bicentennial speech, according to Merida and Fletcher.

Bearing witness

"Because governments and private condemners have an

Bioregional conservation may mean taking habitat

Jesus' hard instruction "Bless those who curse you" is his command that his followers appeal to God to act beneficently toward their condemners. "Bless those who curse you" is.