But many critics see Mr. Kerry's words as impugning the honor of all who served in Vietnam, and in recent weeks, they have circulated a picture of him seated a few rows behind Ms. Fonda at an antiwar rally in Valley Forge, Pa., and taken pains to note that she helped sponsor the "Winter Soldier Investigation" in Detroit, to which Mr. Kerry referred in his Senate testimony.
But Rand does not regard this fact as impugning the reliability of the senses, since the judgment that a particular feature belongs to a perception's content rather than its form is not contributed by the perception itself but is a volitionally, fallibly formed conceptual response to that perception.
"She was worried about the right things but she was better at impugning our choices — as well as our intentions and our competence — than identifying any feasible alternatives".
MoveOn.org, with 3.2 million members, has become a powerful force in Democratic politics and the advertisement it paid for, which appeared in The New York Times, has come under sharp attack from Congressional Republicans and others as unpatriotic and impugning the integrity of General Petraeus.
While Amazon's developments and innovations have been lauded by customers, the same maneuverings have been just as vociferously impugned by legacy publishing and its adherents.
The RUC chief constable at the time, Ronnie Flanagan, denied at the inquiry the existence of a security file on Nelson, just as he denied ever impugning her, and denied knowledge of his own officers' attempts to bug Nelson.
I will insist that you all pay for my drinks as partial compensation for impugning my professional competence and integrity, and I'll let Grady Little be the judge of when I've had enough and need to stop.
Let's choose to criticize the practices of female genital mutilation in Egypt or Somalia as Maher does, but impugning more than a billion people of the same faith, worldwide, for immiserating women is ridiculous and bigoted.
Is she being impugned as Hillary, as a Clinton, as a member of the establishment, or as a woman seeking office?
The crucial point is that in the life sciences, some biological system can fail to behave as a theory predicts without impugning the prediction: we can say that the system is malfunctioning.
But, as he always does, he prefers impugning the motives of his opponent, and exploiting a thoughtful difference of opinion to advance his own ambitions.
