But critics argued that the time period could be waived under the exceptional circumstances of a policy being repudiated by the minister responsible for it.
The opposition to a mosque (really a cultural center) at ground zero (really two blocks away) is not the legitimate expression of some second America that is "cultural" rather than "constitutional" -- it is the American underside, the America of the Klan and of McCarthy, and it is to be repudiated, not excused.
At the end of the 18th century, another willfull princess, Caroline of Brunswick, was repudiated by her husband, the Prince of Wales, after bearing him a daughter; but she refused to disappear, conducting her own court instead and becoming even more popular than the heir to the throne.
Diocletian's persecution of Christians was repudiated and changed to a policy of toleration and then favoritism.
The message of that passage, that the Jewish people were guilty of deicide, was repudiated by the Second Vatican Council.
The desecration of the cross was repudiated by Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot, who said "Their surprise displays and protests against authoritarianism are similar to us, but we look at feminism differently, especially the form of speech.
During the Cultural Revolution (1966 76) he was branded by the Jiang Qing clique as the representative of a counterrevolutionary line of literature and was repudiated at mass meetings and ruthlessly persecuted.
When the currency of the South was repudiated, the Ingeleses' wealth survived, and with it the tradition of generosity--they'd put Anna through Wellesly.
No wonder "The Hothouse" created a furor: it rehearses+all the arguments against business as usual -- the same ones advanced in 1968, when the legitimacy of postwar society was repudiated by its offspring.
