Sentence examples for formally repudiate from inspiring English sources
With his retired predecessor living a short walk away in Vatican City, Francis is unlikely to formally repudiate that doctrine.
(It took 17 more years for the Australian High Court to formally repudiate the concept of "terra nullius," that the Europeans had arrived to colonize an empty land).
Moscow is apparently ready to accept the missile defense testing that the Bush administration wants to conduct, as long as Washington does not formally repudiate the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty.
It should formally repudiate the C.I.A. practice of transferring detainees without meaningful legal process; establish an independent, impartial commission of distinguished persons to examine and disclose the full record of human rights abuses associated with these operations; and launch genuine criminal investigations where warranted.
Days before Bush left office, the head of the Office of Legal Counsel said that given "the doubtful nature of the propositions," he had to formally repudiate the opinions nine in all now presumably to keep some future President from digging them up, like inscriptions in a tomb, and calling them precedents.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced Nasr for her remarks and called on CNN to formally repudiate them.
In 32 B.C., Antony sealed his fate by formally repudiating Octavia.
It tarnished Britain's self-image as a country that formally repudiates all forms of prisoner abuse.
These measures were frequently reenacted, and Edward formally repudiated (1366) the feudal supremacy over England still claimed by the papacy.
Iranian Government leaders consolidated several days of effective public diplomacy at the United Nations yesterday by formally repudiating their country's death threat against Salman Rushdie, the British writer.
Instead, they seek to apply international prohibitions against torture, arbitrary killing and other offenses that have been formally repudiated by nearly every government throughout the world.
