Does Verna act in a manner we can openly condone?

For example, he issued a statement in 2001 openly condoning an armed assault on an executive of Huntingdon Life Sciences, the subject of an international animal-rights campaign called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), which ALF activists are believed to be involved in.

Father Aristide openly condoned vigilante violence and scorned the elected legislature.

However, some magistrates - and some later Emperors - tacitly or openly condoned such transgressions and some volunteers were prepared to embrace the resulting loss of status.

It cannot be seen to openly condone criminal activity.

There's not a country in the world that openly condones brutal treatment of prisoners.

This generation may not openly condone "selling out," but it certainly doesn't frown on capitalism and getting rich.

You cannot have a high school administration that openly condones an ethic of competitive glory-seeking conquerors without also creating an underclass of noncompetitive 'Losers.'