But we deplore violence in any case.

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Dower is not the first writer to describe the trials as "victors' justice" or to deplore the hypocrisy in branding as war criminals people who would soon not only walk free but serve in senior government posts.

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Thus did Judge Richard Posner, in the recent Apple and Motorola case, deplore the misuse of patents governing smartphones and, in no uncertain terms, chastise both sides as he dismissed their respective claims.

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In Cologne, critics deplore the proposed mosque's visibility, and the height of its minarets.

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The Tories deplore the limits Labour has placed on choice in education new controls on self-governing schools, the abolition of assisted places in private schools, and the threat to the remaining selective grammar schools.

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Wales's language disputes are certainly nothing to those of Belgium, where personal relations between the Flemish and Walloon communities can be rancorous, or of Quebec, where English-speakers have left in droves. (In fact, the English continue to come to Wales in substantial numbers, something many language activists deplore.) Even those who do not speak the language say they are proud of it.

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Though jazz fans are always prone to deplore the omission of personal favourites, the most obvious gap in Mr O'Meally's assortment is not his fault: Ray Charles's managers apparently refused permission for his work to be included.

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Ohio politicians deplore plant closings even as they impose the third highest corporate income tax in the country (10.5%) and the sixth highest personal income tax (8.87%).

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The administration has proposed a host of increases in user fees and tobacco taxes to raise revenue that could offset higher spending, a strategy the Republicans deplore.

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