Sentence examples for refusing to disown from inspiring English sources

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For weeks, Mr. Perry stood by his book, refusing to disown the "Ponzi scheme" description and insisting that he was the only one willing to speak the truth about the program.

I've been shouted at for refusing to disown the "imperialist" national anthem and flag.

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But Sam Fairbairn, national secretary of the People's Assembly, refuses to disown any of the protesters.

Shamefully, the Conservatives have refused to disown people they would not be seen dead with in Britain.

At his leadership campaign launch on Thursday, Corbyn refused to disown remarks made by Diane Abbott, who referred to Smith as a "lobbyist".

But though he condemned British dominion in his homeland (he wrote: "Be advised, my passport's green/No glass of ours was ever raised/To toast the Queen"), Mr. Heaney refused to disown British tradition — and especially British literature — altogether.

His party refuses to disown him for trashing a Muslim American family who lost a son in Iraq, or for wanting to close US borders to a billion Muslims.

"The Good Stalin," a novel he published in 2004, is based on real events: Mr. Erofeyev destroyed his father's career as a Soviet diplomat by publishing in an unapproved anthology, but his father refused to disown his son.

In the speech, Obama said he rejected Wright's more inflammatory statements, but refused to disown his longtime spiritual advisor.

But it's not entirely unfair, either; Assange and Wikileaks have thus far refused to disown last week's DDoS retaliations done in their name.

These young people refuse to disown their Mapuche identity, although it can sometimes be very inconvenient.

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