Since 2007, numerous faith communities have called for repudiation, among them, the United Methodist Church, the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Episcopal Church, the World Council of Churches, several Quaker meetings and the United Church of Christ.
Among other things he slams as he roams the stage and occasionally punctuates his diatribes with a well-timed warm smile, is the fight for de-regulation and the mad repudiation of science among factions bent on denying climate warming.
This calculation is no doubt correct: among most Democrats, repudiation of the Iraq war is the entry fee, and in the opinion journals and blogs far more effort has gone into settling the accounts of 2003 than into thinking through the dilemmas of 2006.
Californians elected three Hispanic Republicans to the state legislature in 1998, even as Gray Davis, a Democrat, won the governor's race, a result that reflected, at least among Hispanics, a repudiation of the policies of his predecessor, Pete Wilson, who opposed social services for immigrants, affirmative action and bilingual education in public schools.
All eight students firmly denied that Jewish temples had ever stood in Jerusalem, a repudiation that has gained widespread currency among Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim.
This effective repudiation of obligations already accrued — to, among others, hundreds of thousands of Union pensioners and widows, as well as investors — would destroy confidence in the government and endanger the economy.
Modern productivity is technology applied, and technology is, among other things, a repudiation of geography: it's a way of insisting that the limits of the planet are not the limits of our lives.
As Lea Brilmayer has rightly stressed, secession is not simply the formation of a new political association among individuals or the repudiation by a group of persons of their obligation to obey the state's laws.
In addition to imprisoning dissenters, Raúl Castro's government also enforces political conformity using beatings, short-term detention, public acts of repudiation, and the denial of work, among other tactics.
Finally, a reporter asked whether a poll released on Tuesday evening, which showed Mr. de Blasio leading Mr. Lhota 65 to 22 among likely voters, amounted to a repudiation of his mayoralty.
According to Twitty, Tunnell's fervent repudiation of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan created "frustration and confusion" among lower-level commanders, who believed his orders contradicted the fundamental strategy of the war.
