Luther was given 60 days upon receiving the bull to recant and another 60 days to report his recantation to Rome.
A German battalion is likely to be based in Alsace-Lorraine, a region repeatedly fought over by the two countries in the past.The pope ordered a traditionalist bishop, Richard Williamson, whom he had recently readmitted to the Catholic church, to recant on his denials of the Holocaust.
Even after it was clear that the athletes were innocent, 87 faculty members published a letter categorically rejecting calls to recant their condemnation.
When Egypt's culture minister casually told an interviewer that he personally considered veiling a backward practice, the ensuing public outcry forced him to recant.
Like many influential people out of favour with the authotities and accused of being "false" messiahs, he was forced to recant on state television, confessing that he had been against the Islamic Republic's core tenets.
Anyone who doubted that a surge in equity issuance from indebted companies is coming should recant after events in the mining industry.
"We are Starting to Sing a New Song", Luther's first venture into the news-ballad genre, told the story of two monks who had been executed in Brussels in 1523 after refusing to recant their Lutheran beliefs.
But also he would be a double-or-quits choice for the Tories: if, in a referendum, Britons were to vote to join he would either have to quit as leader, recant, or declare that he would campaign henceforth for withdrawal.
They recalled how torture was routinely used to break prisoners, make them recant their religious or political beliefs, or denounce others: they described flogging, beating, being suspended in the air by their arms twisted behind their backs, made to sit blindfolded for months in tiny boxes known as "coffins" and being tortured in front of their children or spouses.
Ego plays a part: Mr Balls struggles to recant very much from his time at the Treasury, including Labour's lavish spending before the downturn.
At least on doctrinal matters, he will have no harsh words to recant.
