Sentence examples for repugnant act from inspiring English sources

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Place the focus where it belongs, properly, on the aggressive and repugnant act, and not on the word".

That repugnant act would be of no strategic value, however, because the rest of the untouched Soviet missile force would then be used to wipe out U.S. cities.

However, the most repugnant act in the coaching carousel this week is not a dismissal, but rather the prospective hiring of a distempered man named Robert Montgomery Knight as the coach at Texas Tech.

California officially apologized to victims for its repugnant act in 2003.

Knowing about Louis C.K., knowing about Harvey Weinstein, knowing about Kevin Spacey, knowing [insert name here] did [insert repugnant act here] but being powerless to broadcast these facts to the public doesn't make me complicit in the actions of these men.

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If morally neutral terminology is used for morally repugnant acts, it reduces the sense of repugnance.

"We underscore that Israel, like all nations, has the right to self-defense and to bring justice to the perpetrators of these repugnant acts".

"Wewill not allow the repugnant acts of a few to definewho we are as Americans," said RepresentativeSteve Buyer, Republican of Indiana and chairmanof the Veterans Affairs Committeee.

The young man compared the "obvious, obscene and repugnant acts of racism" in the past to the kind black students currently experienced at UCT. "Ours is worse," he wrote.

Nor can we forget that while Mr. Comey nearly resigned over the Bush wiretap program, he stayed on until 2005, and he remains implicated in many of the administration's most repugnant acts, including the indefinite detention of an American citizen, Jose Padilla, who for two years was not allowed to contact even his lawyers.

In 1996, in the wake of the murder of a Guatemalan by a CIA informant, officers were told to contact Langley before "establishing a relationship with an individual who has committed serious crimes or human-rights abuses or other repugnant acts".

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