An influential mem ber of Sinn Fein's peace process talks team, he denies claims that he is one of the IRA's seven-strong ruling army council, and expresses abhorrence of sectarianism from whatever quarter.
Iris Robinson, the wife of current first minister Peter Robinson, also publicly jumped up and down about her abhorrence over gay sex, her moral crusading turning out to be a hostage to fortune.
Although marriage is no more than a mystical word, adding no new rights, fighting over that word lets homophobes again vent abhorrence at the modern world and all its filth.
The president seems sincere in his abhorrence of corruption, but unwilling to take on vested interests threatened by the anti-graft drive.Saving gracesStill, Mr Yudhoyono has two big things going for him.
A new pan-African opinion poll*, conducted by the Afrobarometer Network, a consortium of African and American social scientists, has found strong support for democracy as the least bad system of government, and an abhorrence of violence as a means of resolving disputes.
Since it would be almost impossible for America to join the AIIB against the will of Congress, with its many critics of China and abhorrence of funding any new international bank, Japan would be breaking ranks with its ally should it join.
This week Americans voted in record-smashing numbers for many reasons, but one of them was an abhorrence of how their shining city's reputation has been tarnished.
The Chinese government, for all its professed abhorrence of superstition, adheres to a tradition that the number eight brings luck.
Ames the idealist could see a future in which Palestinians and Israelis were at peace with each other, and in which America was seen as a friend by all.But Ames the realist was forced to recognise the obstacles imposed by America's political cycle and by its abhorrence of the terror tactics that had finally brought the Palestinian cause to its attention.
Though he was deliberately vague, it is thought that Mr Khatami did not share his conservative opponents' abhorrence of a two-state solution.
Though the Communist Party has an abhorrence of multiparty democracy, mainland websites gave extensive coverage to Taiwan's elections, even offering live video feeds of the vote-counting.
