While it was under way, the Taliban attacked the consultative peace jirga, or council, which ended June 6, both with rockets and through denunciations.
Through its denunciation of Stalin, it substantially destroyed the infallibility of the party.
In some societies the penal arm of the state has reached individual men through secret denunciation followed by summary punishment.
The fact that his fans have stood by him through his denunciation may seem surprising, but they may find it easier to ignore his critics than to reject their faith in him.
And it was wonderfully audacious of him to go to St. Paul and pack a cheering, overflow crowd into the very arena where, three months from now, Republican conventioneers will nod through interminable denunciations of trial lawyers and the Far Left.
Hey presto, he didn't annoy anybody except the reporters who had to sit through a rote denunciation of the Clintons.
Denunciation through social networks, the press... the courts are obliged to open an inquiry when these things are brought to their attention and the opening of an inquiry is now presented as a pre-condemnation.
Fear of denunciation spread through the city, penetrating every workplace, even the imposing neo-Renaissance halls of the Bosnian National Museum.
Although the charges are serious and the evidence convincing, the timing gave the impression that Mr Uribe was trying pre-emptively to spoil an incipient effort by Mr Santos to protect his country's vital interests through diplomacy rather than mere denunciation.
Though his incendiary campaign rhetoric forced his fellow Republicans through a revolving door of denunciation and embrace, that populist appeal anchored and, ultimately, grew his campaign.
