Sentence examples for were to repudiate from inspiring English sources

Take Greece: even if the government were to repudiate all its debt, it would still have to slash spending and raise taxes to balance its budget, and it would still have to suffer the pain of deflation.

The net effect of this statute is to repudiate Delaware's Revlon rule.

To ask important questions about what personal information and privacy are, and should be, is to repudiate such know-nothing nostrums.

Labour's determination to make strict conditions on legality and objectives is what you would expect under a leader whose first act was to repudiate Iraq.

He is as keen to identify himself with the responsible scientific establishment in the UK as it is to repudiate him.

Ironically enough, Xavi's other purpose at the news briefing was to repudiate what he called atrocious and totally unfounded accusations by a journalist that Barça players took banned drugs.

To do so would be to repudiate the only clear foreign policy legacy of the Clinton years, namely the principle of no more Rwandas — that the U.S. can and must intervene to stop genocide.

To back off now, Police Commissioner Howard Safir said in an interview, would be to repudiate the central tenets of the city's policing strategy, a strategy that has coincided with steep declines in all measures of crime.

(This position, incidentally, earned him a place in Dan Dennett's "Philosophers' Lexicon," in which names of philosophers are construed as verbs or common nouns: to "quine" is to repudiate a clear distinction).

Although he was to repudiate the term (and the theory behind it) by the 1970s, Kanner also coined the phrase "refrigerator mother" to describe the supposed emotional frigidity of parents who he thought caused, or at least contributed to, their children's autistic behaviour.

The only way out is to repudiate debt — foreign and domestic.