It offers images powerful enough to be repudiated with real comic energy in Ulysses.
The movie starts with the teen-aged Emily (played by Emma Bell) repudiating, with a calm and steadfast insolence, the pieties of her Christian boarding school.
The old Alliance model, where each race was represented by one party, was repudiated with the formation of the Barisan Nasional (BN, or the National Front) in 1974.
We shouldn't really have a public option anyway because Congressional Republicans don't like it, and we have to have a bipartisan solution, even though voters thoroughly repudiated the Republicans in the last two elections, because true virtue lies in mixing the bad ideas voters repudiated with the ones they voted for.
The effort was so noxious, so offensive to the notions of fairness and the rule of law that we need in the modern world, that it must be repudiated with an opposite force -- a skilled and conscientious presence aimed at ensuring the election is as democratic as possible, and publicizing its shortcomings.
Forced to find ways to propagate and sustain their churches through time, Reformers created new structures to parallel most of those that had been repudiated along with Roman Catholicism.
Do we angrily repudiate assimilation with radical, postmodern "queer theories" and behaviors that define us in terms of perpetual rage?
While his backers were still hot to trot, he became cooler toward them, and, in effect, repudiated them with few progressive appointments.
Lincoln explicitly repudiates any interference with the practice of slavery where it existed.
Khan's close identification with Pearl repudiates the notion that the character is, as some might think, simply a hokey construct dreamt up to market the album, and Khan feels uneasy that it would be taken as such, hence her discomfort at dressing up as Pearl for the film crew's benefit in Williamsburg.
Now, because of what's happened, they have repudiated those links with the regime and gone with the revolution, such as it exists.
