In recent years, critics have denounced its expanded mission and pan-Latin efforts as an erosion of the museum's Puerto Rican core.

Democrats denounced Republican efforts to paint them as unpatriotic.

They declared their support for the "traditional definition of marriage" and denounced efforts to "force states to recognize other living arrangements as marriages."

But several members of the judiciary denounced efforts by the Mitterrand family to attack the judge.

Cigarette makers have for decades denounced scientific efforts to measure the byproducts and effects of cigarette smoking.

He denounced efforts to keep him from earning any money, saying that "a certain special interest group" had made him its "whipping boy."

Three Democratic Congressmen from northern New Jersey yesterday denounced Republican efforts to cut spending for social programs.

The Bush Administration repeatedly denounced efforts in Congress to legislate big efficiency increases, urging lawmakers to await the academy's report.

The 1903 congress denounced "revisionist efforts".

He denounced efforts to 'organise a political strike on the eve of the congress', the country's supreme legislative body.