0 present participle of condone --
1 to accept or allow behaviour that is wrong: --
If the government is seen to condone violence, the bloodshed will never stop.
The consequence of that would be that we in this country were condoning the very violence which we are all condemning tonight.
There can be no question of condoning violations of human rights.
That is not only condoning extravagance; it is asking for waste.
I suggest that 0·3 deaths per annum for every 1,000 miles of main demonstrates that we are not condoning tragedies that should be avoided.
The virtue of what we are doing is that it is extremely limited and doesn't put us in a position of condoning interpretations of our work.
His study treads carefully between the dangers of a crude censuring of corruption and incompetence and an understanding, and therefore a condoning, of the activities of a patrimonial society.
This willingness to condemn the generalised 'other', while apparently condoning one's own family members, might appear to the cynic as mere hypocrisy.
In condoning such measures, the ministry avoided potential instability in the system.
