Mr. Clinton's misconduct merits stern, formal censure but is not sufficiently damaging to the interests of the state to merit overturning an election.

The papers say that after the midday impeachment vote a formal censure of Clinton will fail.

China escaped formal censure for the last seven years, with the last resolution in 1997 being defeated by a wide margin.

On September 15, the House approved a "resolution of disapproval" (as opposed to a formal censure) against Wilson, on a near party-line 240-179 vote.

A Connecticut legislator who referred to homosexuals as "lollipops" says he will not apologize despite a call for formal censure in the General Assembly.

He did not, however, avoid ridicule; and that is worse than any formal censure.

Consequently he came under the formal censure of Richard Nix, the bishop of the diocese, and appears to have been temporarily suspended.

Herbinger escaped without a formal censure, but the commission of enquiry recommended that he should not be given any further field commands.

The company neither admitted nor denied the accusations, but accepted the punishments, which included a formal censure.