Mr Galloway was not willing to let his reputation be impugned in this way". Julia Schopflin, for the paper's publisher, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, and its editor, Paul Van Slambrouck, said: "The Christian Science Monitor published the article based on documents which it believed were genuine but which it now accepts were forgeries.
Another declared, "Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments".
But as a philosopher, Sidney Hook, once said, "before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments".
The motives of neither should be impugned".
Similarly, if the motives of the dealing are negative, the fairness will be impugned.
Secondly, when funding for homeopathy research became available relatively recently, the pool of potential homeopathy-savvy investigators was generally weak in medical research knowledge or experience, leading to the publication of studies that could be impugned on scientific grounds.
The liberal to a tee and almost exclusively white programme-makers were suitably scandalised but also privately offended for fear we might be impugning their anti-racist credentials.
Their intellectual honesty was impugned, and their doctrines were blamed for weakening the moral fibre of Greece.
If analysts refrain from making nonconsensus calls for fear of being impugned publicly without evidence, investors and our stock markets will suffer.
It also serves as a good catch phrase, an impartation of wisdom worth being passed on to younger generations to whom the importance of perseverance is being stressed and for whom surrender in the face of obstacles is being impugned.
