Sentence examples for much repudiated from inspiring English sources

Mr. Romney has not so much repudiated the Ryan budget as de-emphasized it, speaking vaguely of drafting his own plan if elected.

They are not so much repudiating a precept laid out in 1961 by the activist and critic Jane Jacobs -- "Most blocks must be short" -- as they are recognizing that not every new street enlivens a neighborhood or expands public space.

"The Corrections" did not so much repudiate all this as surgically "correct" it.

The short answer in the case of Libya is that Barack Obama has not invented a new doctrine so much as repudiated an old one.

I would have publicly said as much, and repudiated the Initiative.

The theory of arms control, articulated primarily by academics, repudiated much of the logic of strategy.

The radicals also criticized scholastic philosophy and the theology built upon it; therefore they repudiated much of classical theology and Christology.

In the past thirty years, Chomsky has staged two more linguistic revolutions, in each of which he repudiated much of what he had said before.

Theologically, he repudiated much traditional Christian dogma, putting in its place an intuitive knowledge of God derived from man's experience of nature and insight into his own mind.

Though its precise terms bar only federal jurisdiction over suits brought against one State by citizens of another State or foreign state, we have long recognized that the Eleventh Amendment accomplished much more: It repudiated the central premise of Chisholm that the jurisdictional heads of Article III superseded the sovereign immunity that the States possessed before entering the Union.

Finally, Wolfowitz thanked the Poles for joining in a war that much of Europe had repudiated, and continues to oppose.