Sentence examples for as he repudiated from inspiring English sources

The litany of brutality, lawlessness and lack of accountability serves as a reminder of what a horrible decision President Obama made at the outset of his administration to close the books on this chapter in our history, even as he repudiated the use of torture.

The whole diabolical business of the unread note and the wedding night, and the awful shredding sense of everything going horribly, irreparably wrong as he repudiates Tess – unlucky, unlucky Tess! – is just too much for my snivelling soul to deal with.

Yet his words rang hollow (even before he repudiated them himself), as do the words of the many conservative leaders who denounced this hate but still support his Presidency.

But to call one's brother a "nigger" is to describe one's own "wretchedness," as Richard Pryor said when he repudiated the word in the eighties.

However, in 1980 he published "Confessions of a Former Anti-Semite", in which he "repudiated" past excesses "as thoroughly as I can", adding that he now found anti-semitism "as ugly an idea and as deadly as white racism".

When the book resurfaced in 2001, he repudiated it as a foolish, young man's provocation.

He repudiated the term as without real sense: "…the talk of the atheist should be considered thoughtless and erroneous.

Tagore was awarded a knighthood in 1915, but he repudiated it in 1919 as a protest against the Amritsar Massacre.

— President Obama previewed a new national security strategy rooted in diplomatic engagement and international alliances on Saturday as he essentially repudiated his predecessor's emphasis on unilateral American power and the right to wage pre-emptive war.

Godard derides his protagonists' vulgarity, ignorance, triviality, and venality; he confronts the worldwide misery that their prosperity depends on; and he repudiates, on aesthetic as well as moral grounds, the industrial society that both produces and sustains their warped values.

The paradox is that, where Larkin simply repudiates the very notion of modernity by opposing the work of modernists, Nietzsche falls into the very same anti-modernism and nostalgia as that of the artist he repudiates.