It would recant the illiberal legacy of Labour home secretaries, of Charles Clarke, Jack Straw and Jacqui Smith, and reassert individual rights against the surveillance state.
But it was uncertain whether he would recant his statement after he had been scalded in the face with hot oil by another inmate who admitted assaulting him because he was "a snitch".
But, in the end, Bruno gave his inquisitors an unanswerable ultimatum: he told them that if the Pope came forward to certify that the actions he was charged with were definitely heretical, or that the Holy Spirit had said they were, then he would recant.
But Mr. Friedman spoke differently in an interview on "Dateline NBC" last month, when he challenged former victims to come forward, as well as in an interview on the DVD release of the film, in which he says that he and his brother David cooperated with the film in the hope that his former accusers would recant.
(Hours later, Gordon would recant his story).
Held under house arrest by the authorities, he had never stopped writing, even when they offered him freedom if he would recant his anti-government statements.
There was speculation about whether Obama -- by appointing individuals who, generally speaking, took a harder line on the Iraq War -- would recant his pledge of a 16-month timetable for U.S. troop withdrawals.
I am going to have to implement a simple rule, whether it be for flower shows, village fêtes, school summer fairs and drive-bys through tempting Devon hamlets with plant-stand honesty boxes: until I live in a vicarage with a four-acre garden to fill, I will stop buying plants on impulse. 5. Buy what looks nice On second thoughts, I'd like to recant on the previous resolution.
Then, in 2007, Rice reversed his position again, swearing that he'd recanted under pressure and reaffirming his identification of Howell.
I replied, saying I would be happy to recant the moment some really good evidence of their genuineness was produced.
Then I would revisit a column and recant my folly.
