At the time Volkswagen said the "highly stylised and choreographed" adverts were not intended to condone violence.
The novelist worked neither to correct nor to condone, and not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
The former head of the CBI, Lord Digby Jones, has criticised Coca-Cola over labelling that appears to condone taking unauthorised sick days.
For sure, governments are famously skittish about appearing to condone smoking, but this may be a case where the perfect is the enemy of the good.
The senior Iraqi official told NPR that it is in no way the policy of the Iraqi government to condone torture, but, he said, these are exceptional times.
The prospect of having to condone the involvement of German soldiers in what would be their first offensive mission since the second world war might now, some believe, prove the last straw.
One of these is the reluctance of the existing Commonwealth countries to have anything to do with Britain qua colonial power, to seem to condone colonialism by accepting a colony as a partner in their company.
But the ASA ruled that the ad was unlikely to "encourage or condone cruelty to animals or cause serious or widespread offence".
But Scotland Yard warned the sentence should be a warning to those who condone or stay silent about the mistreatment of women in their communities.
By contrast, on August 5, the Prime Minister announced that he was "absolutely and completely committed" to ensuring that those foreign clerics and others who come to Britain and condone, glorify or justify terrorism are deported.
In a statement, Cupid, whose websites include cupid.com, benaughty.com, girlsdateforfree.com and flirt.com, said the company "does not employ members of staff to create fake profiles, impersonate users or use any other dubious practice to encourage customers to take out subscriptions or in order to retain existing customers, nor would the company condone, promote or persuade employees to do so".
It would be very hard for him to do anything but implicitly condone the attack.
"The officers of this association cannot possibly condone his decision to ask for the Labour whip, " it said in a statement.
We have a strong commitment to diversity and we do not condone, or tolerate, discrimination within our business for any reason.
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But prosecutor John Skrzynski objected, arguing that the pictures were irrelevant to the charges and that the defense was only going to use the proposed evidence to generate sympathy for Youk and condone Kevorkian's actions.
"We do not condone it, we would like them to stop, " says Bassam Khoury, the Palestinian Authority's Economy Minister.
I'm a real Scotland fan and I want to see them do well but I can hardly condone what we saw in Cardiff.
Sen Brown told the Boston Globe newspaper "certainly that's not something I condone", while repeating the allegation that his challenger had claimed Native American heritage to further her career.
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As pensions continue to seek to enhance minority participation in asset management through ill-conceived schemes that result in uncompetitive returns and condone unprofessional or illegal behavior, the likelihood of a confrontation with regulators or law enforcement grows.
We wish on behalf of the advertising industry to make it clear, in case there is any ambiguity explicit or implied, that we do not condone advertising on unsavoury websites and that neither advertisers nor their agencies are complicit in 'cyber bullying'.
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