Sentence examples for making public confessions from inspiring English sources

It was widely reported that Ms. Ashtiani, who was temporarily released from prison to attend the event, had admitted to complicity in the murder of her husband and denied that she had been pressured into making public confessions.

Maine's diocese took a different approach, ordering Father Doucette and another priest who had acknowledged sexual misconduct to make public confessions.

Xi's administration has paraded a series of high-profile detainees on television to make public confessions, often focusing on regular criminal cases rather than political charges.

Others seem like a return to Maoist China "struggle sessions" during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s when people accused of misconduct made public confessions of their misdeeds and mis-thoughts.

To Arthur Miller, the House Un-American andivitheSalemmittee and the Salem witch trials served the same ritualistic purpose, requiring "that the accused make public confession, damn his confederates as well as his Devil master, and guarantee his new allegiance by breaking disgusting old vows".

He seems to have rejected making the public confession of wrongdoing that our culture requires of fallen heroes before they can receive redemption.

In a confession made public last week, after earlier insisting that he was innocent, Mr. Mijailovic said he believed that the voices in his head came from Jesus Christ.

She denied that she had been pressured into making a public confession and denounced the protest over her sentence.

For some of the ministers, though, it was not sufficient for this proud, strong-minded woman to submit to the humiliation of making a public confession.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's representative to the Revolutionary Guards, Mojtaba Zolnour, said in a speech Thursday that almost everyone now detained had confessed — raising the prospect that more confessions will be made public.

More details were made public today from the videotaped confession of a former aide to President Jacques Chirac, who described how he collected kickbacks from contractors installing elevators and painting hallways in city housing projects.