Even if the concerned Christians in the audience can't prove their arguments, they feel morally superior enough to repudiate mine without any real knowledge or facts.
Ultimately, Rethinking Race offers a philosophical basis for repudiating racism without blinding ourselves to reality.
How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes?" We are told that Jesus wept, but not that he ever laughed.
They could merely affirm that Trump's comments about "rapists" were "extraordinarily ugly" or "offensive and inaccurate," repudiating him without making any specific commitments of their own.
But that was the strategy they chose, and it actually worked: He won the Republican nomination without having to repudiate his signature policy accomplishment as governor.
The diplomatic dispute underscored the increasing willingness of Egyptian activists to assert muscular foreign policy demands, as well as to repudiate alliances cultivated over decades without public approval by autocratic rulers.
The crucial new power that Mr. Geithner wants would allow him to appoint a trustee who can renegotiate or repudiate an institution's contracts without the approval of creditors or other stakeholders.
We have tended to forgive those who waged the most sustained, brutal assaults in the name of white supremacy, without requiring them to repudiate their beliefs or actions in return.
You cannot deem stakeholders to be equal co-owners of a business without repudiating the very idea of ownership.
In the South, Memorial Day was a means of confronting the Confederacy's defeat but without repudiating its cause.
