Local activists are also becoming more effective in opposing private-development projects that depend on government condemnations.
Courts have been slow to wake up to these private-use condemnations, but that may be changing.
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says Friday prayer sermons in some mosques began with condemnations of the assault.
And land-owners who challenge condemnations in court have recently won a few battles.
In recent years, state courts have rejected or overturned 40% of private-developer condemnations--hardly enough, but the trend line is positive.
The problem that the British government is now trying to conjure with is what can be done beyond ritual condemnations.
Unless carefully explained, that message might be lost amid the strident condemnations which would undoubtedly come from those advocating the Bill.
It came across to me as somewhat ideological, in its sweeping condemnations.
Yasir Arafat's condemnations of Israeli settlements should not be assumed to signify that plo ambitions are now moderate and limited to the territories.
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Prominent among these condemnations was Yediot Ahronot's senior commentator Shimon Shiffer.
And Ambassador Rice, I think, is working very hard up there in order to get some action, but there have been condemnations already throughout the world.
The Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) posted condemnations of Abou El Fadl on the American Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism (AMILA) Internet site.
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The Vatican has over recent decades issued blanket condemnations of artificial methods of birth control, in-vitro fertilization, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and human embryonic stem cell research.
One cannot but be troubled by the discrepancy between their blanket condemnations and the assessment of those with genuine experience of making tough decisions in times of combat.
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King Abdullah has linked his condemnations of the attacks with a message that any war against terrorism should be linked to renewed efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
His plight used to earn fierce condemnations from foreign governments.
One of Adidas' most high-profile condemnations came from the Rev.
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Again, perhaps others should then -- it should be incumbent on others to give evaluations and assessments and condemnations, if called for, of other ads that you judge out of line.
These condemnations were not nostalgic pinings for a has-been.
The heavy ooze of moral superiority emanating from all the condemnations of Mr. Romney last week, all the breathless media reports on those condemnations, did not begin with something he said last week.
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But their condemnations will be drowned out by hoots and cheers of enthusiastic support from the overwhelming majority of the public at home, and from Israel's friends in Congress and throughout the world.
The wall-to-wall condemnations of Netanyahu by the Israeli media lend the impression that Israel's leading reporters and commentators are committed to demoralizing the public into believing that Israel has no option other than surrender.
He centers his condemnations primarily on the fact that at every level --the board, the president and Paterno -- no one expressed any concern for the boys whose lives were devastated by the abuse inflicted upon them by Sandusky.
Concerns that arose among some Jewish groups over his handling of the story of Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004 were replaced by widespread condemnations two years later when Gibson was arrested on a drunk driving charge.
As a result, the crisis has flared up anew, replete with a stern public reprimand from Mr Obama, condemnations from governments around the world and renewed warnings from the Palestinians that their president, Mahmoud Abbas, would at last throw in the towel.
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