Sentence examples for disown a from inspiring English sources

(Anyone can disown a nonentity like Amritsar's Dyer, but disowning giants like Cicero and Churchill entirely is rather gutsier).

Durbin had to disown a visa-reform bill that he drafted with Grassley, a fact that Grassley repeatedly cited.

Male chauvinism often drives a father to disown a disabled child, but my father pushed me through education.

"I couldn't conceive of anyone else in my range of understanding who would disown a daughter for refusing to compliment him.

Details of the latest difficulty faced by the Coalition in its attempts to reduce the deficit emerged as it was revealed that Mr Cameron is set to disown a pending report on child poverty.

But he appeared to disown a suggestion by his senior military chief that American soldiers could be embedded with Iraqi fighting units.For America, the heart of the strategy is to turn disgruntled Sunnis against the jihadists, especially in Iraq.

It split between those who regard more nationalization of British industry as a splinter of true faith, which would be blasphemy to disown-a view held by many of the former Bevan group & by zealot Party workers & trade unionists, & those who think that it is now Labour's biggest liability.

Alexander was also forced to disown an email mistakenly released by the party suggesting the Liberal Democrats were planning to raise taxes on people earning more than £50,000 a year.

In articles splashed across the front pages of the major national dailies on Wednesday, he made it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party would never sever its ties with the R.S.S. "How could we disown an organization with which we have been associated since our childhood," he asked.

In the 2016 of the real world, the leading GOP candidate, whose own father may or may not have been involved with the KKK, has a regular habit of retweeting white supremacists, and he can't be bothered to unequivocally disown an endorsement by infamous racist David Duke on CNN (he later backtracked, saying he hadn't understood the question due to a problem with his earpiece).

Only last March, he disowned a labour-market reform proposed by the present prime minister, Dominique de Villepin.