How To Use Avow In A Sentence

So, while not disavowing the memo should your Democratic staff on the select committee be taking that as a straightforward admonition?
But with the U.S. Federal Reserve's recently announced avowal of easy monetary policy causing the dollar to flirt with its record low against the yen, Japan's government is turning an increasingly stern eye toward its own central bank for further monetary easing to counter the U.S. action. Pressure Mounts on BOJ to Weaken Yen After U.S. Criticism of Intervention
History as necromancy is avowed in the Preface to Life of Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality'
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A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.

I would suggest that this cultural fantasy is the symptom of one model for male creativity - the desire to disavow woman's essential Lack by fetishizing an ordinary object.
Moreover the chancellor of the exchequer saw before him an inevitable addition of ten millions of pounds sterling to his budget, the only avowable reason for which was the rectification of the Canadian frontier. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII
“Actually, I’ve been known to be witty for a full ten minutes,” Gawain avowed with a lift of his eyebrows. DIALOGUE • by Resha Caner
Such disavowals always remind me of Henry Kissinger's line that when a state denies it intends to take a course of action, it is signalling to others that it has the capacity to take such action if it wishes.
He again avows his special love of democracy: ‘I have been democratically elected to public office.’
Residents -- whether for the purposes unblushingly avowed by that sometime favourite of the stage, Mr. Eccles, or for the reasons less horrifying to the United Kingdom Alliance -- found themselves more at home in "Caesarea" than in "Sarnia," and the "five-pounder," as the summer tripper was despiteously called by natives, liked to go as far as he could for his money, and found St. Helier's "livelier" than A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
Tom Goldstein, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where impressionable novitiates are prepared for the high calling of the Fourth Estate, avowed that Wright was just ‘a corporate citizen’ doing his job.
Like its predecessors, the novel comes dripping in satire, but this time of a more avowedly self-reflexive nature. The Times Literary Supplement
The board disavowed the action of the executive.
I cannot recall the avowal of my earnest and deep attachment to you, and I do not recall it. ' Our Mutual Friend
I was cheating Jinna out of something, not by denying her a false avowal of love, but by accommodating our attraction. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The counter-demonstrators, a self-avowed violent anti-Klan group, consisted of young blacks and Hispanics from the inner city.
Mr.R. M.T. Hunter, an avowed bimetallist, in a report to the United States Senate, said: Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
So, without preconceptions, this is a brisk, well-balanced, fruit forward, but still avowedly savoury wine, that would be a piquant pairing with the crisp, dry snap of well grilled salmon cutlets - a texture lost in pan frying.
This good fortune is attributed to the owner, Mrs. Viola Vickham, an avowed Francophobe who refused to buy or serve any French imports, including the infamous "adverse cam(em)ber(t). Archive 2006-08-01
Thus, in one place we have the following avowal, which is only not _naïf_ because evidently put in to please the prejudices of sympathetically narrow readers. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Obama is not an "avowed" Marxist and I'll bet next month's rent that you cannot define Marxism. How a capital gains tax break could get cash to startups
Thanks to changes in the tax law engineered when another avowedly pro-business Democrat, Bill Clinton, was president, U.S. multinational financial companies can avoid taxes on their international scams. Robert Scheer: Obama's Fatal Addiction
There has been no such avowal, openly or otherwise, from the center-right or right to discredit theleft. The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
Agreement may be achievable only by formulas so vague as to invite later disavowal or disagreement.
Its strength is not disavowed by its disparate and often contrary nature.
Are men now prepared openly to avow their bisexuality?
As an artist, he has knowingly signed forged drawings and disavows responsibility for his sometimes salacious subject matter.
I cannot recall the avowal of my earnest and deep attachment to you, and I do not recall it.’ Our Mutual Friend
He's not going to 'disavow' it, whatever that means in this context. Is Bobby Jindal -- Who May Be On McCain's Veep Shortlist -- An Exorcist?
Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children
GCHQ's cover was blown by Time Out in 1976, but it was only officially "avowed" in 1982 when Geoffrey Prime, a former linguist at GCHQ, was jailed for 38 years for passing secrets to the Russians over a 14-year period. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
A failed school teacher who became Minister of Education; a one-time Methodist minister turned avowed atheist.
I was cheating Jinna out of something, not by denying her a false avowal of love, but by accommodating our attraction. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
One could wonder how an account of the logic or the consistency of concepts might be described as avowedly optimistic. 'Liberal Nationalism'
But far from being examined - let alone disavowed - the policies behind these developments are being redoubled.
Nor is he is a Christ figure, despite the eager (by mystics) or outraged (by Marxists) avowals to that effect during the Soviet era.
You'd have to be very unobservant not to have noticed that there are an awful lot of bloggers with an avowedly (and sometimes aggressively) libertarian political philosophy.
It was the most important disavowal consensus politics in recent history.
Toledo, I must needs confess and acknowledge that veritably the devils cannot be killed or die by the stroke of a sword, I do nevertheless avow and maintain, according to the doctrine of the said diabology, that they may suffer a solution of continuity (as if with thy shable thou shouldst cut athwart the flame of a burning fire, or the gross opacous exhalations of a thick and obscure smoke), and cry out like very devils at their sense and feeling of this dissolution, which in real deed I must aver and affirm is devilishly painful, smarting, and dolorous. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The letter said, "While there might be no desire to define Christianity in the case of those who claim that they are in any sense of the term entitled to be called Christians, for those persons who, like yourself, disavow the name, there seems to be no need of raising any question as to how broad a range of opinion the name may properly be stretched to cover." [ Unitarianism in America
John in what he terms antichristian; but, obviously, only such as do not admit a recognition of Jesus as the Christ in the true sense, — only such as involve a denial of this, though they may not directly avow it. The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: III. The First Epistle of John, Practically Explained.
We start with the statement of a “fact” and we’re left with a disavowal from the also anonymous Teddy. Waldo Jaquith - You’re never anonymous on the internet.
They issued this statement and part of it reads: We are not surprised by the government's action as it repeats the broken promises and empty words from President Obama avowing to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell while at the same time directing his Justice Department to defend this unconstitutional policy. Bronx Gang Attack Rattles Blogosphere
Durey's use of bi- and polytonality is less strident and upfront than Milhaud's, and he mixes it with a plangent lyricism which, despite Durey's avowed intention to forget Ravel, is surely influenced by the latter's quartet of 1903.
Since sero-converting, Tyler has become an avowed barebacker. New York Press
Samurai and medieval warriors wept to show that they truly felt the code of honour they avowed. Times, Sunday Times
Even when such witnesses could be portrayed as acknowledging this inadequacy with what narratology calls ‘modal locutions’ such as ‘I seemed to hear’ or ‘I perceived,’ these, according to Knight, must be read as ‘unavowed paralepses’.
Rather than refer to her speech at the previous day's banquet, whether to endorse or disavow such colorful phrases as "the Pentagon, a pentacle crowded with the demons of nuclear madness," or "the CIA-the Children Immolation Agency," he made an unspeech of it and simply called her a modern Joan of Arc. That St. Joan took arms in the cause of liberation became an unfact. The Boat of a Million Years
However, from this position of avowed inferiority, could I possibly make two tiny observations?
Culture means many things in this context, but at heart it is a suite of traits we inherit and also choose to disavow or to stress.
It is a society in which homosexuality is rarely avowed.
The agency's inclusiveness, its solicitude toward the divergent perspectives of many different stakeholders, fit with its avowed mission of neutrality.
Another name glided into her petition --- it was that of the wounded Christian, whom fate had placed in the hands of bloodthirsty men, his avowed enemies. Ivanhoe
They're avowed enemies of the current Cuban state.
Positioned on the other side of the argument is the Association of National Advertisers, which has asked the commission to "disavow" any effort to add commercials to the content ratings menu, saying that Congress 'instruction to the FCC to conduct a study was not be treated as an "invitation to regulate. Multichannel News: Breaking News
He was, despite considerable wealth, his own plane and boat, both of which he piloted, avowedly antimaterialist. Times, Sunday Times
Such avowed Protestants embrace universalism on the grounds that all are condemned in Christ's death but accepted in His resurrection.
Certain scuttlebutt avows that the girls actually do not participate in the makings of many of these records.
It is why Israelis recently voted in right winger Binyamin Netanyahu and why he, in turn, was compelled to name avowed racist Avigdor Lieberman, founder of far-right Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home party, whose electoral base are the immigrants from the former Soviet Union) as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. The Circular Dangers of John Hagee, AIPAC and Netanyahu
Then the pope, considering the great perils that might ensue by his departing, dispensed with him, and assoiled him of his avow, of which he sent to him a bull under lead, and enjoined him in penance to give the goods that he should have spent in his pilgrimage, to deeds of charity, and to re-edify some church of S. Peter, and endow it with sufficient livelihood. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
He needs to 'disavow' that community and its leaders entirely!" many will decry. Edward J. Murray: The Obama Dilemma
Stormfront has become a bridge to the mainstream, where controversial comments strangely mirror the rhetoric of avowed racists.
I'm bowled over by a Pentecostal preacher who is honest to the extent that I, an avowed agnostic, am prepared to sing hosannas to him.
Hence the coldness, the cause of which is scarcely avowable. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By 1976, as America elected its first avowedly born again president, 44 percent of Americans said that the influence of religion was once again rising. American Grace
And for its value and utility it must be plainly avowed that that wisdom which we have derived principally from the Greeks is but like the boyhood of knowledge, and has the characteristic property of boys: it can talk, but it cannot generate, for it is fruitful of controversies but barren of works. The Great Instauration
He is, at once, a forward looking evolutionist, and an avowed eugenicist.
The insistence on the exclusion of English has become, as of now, a sort of status symbol, a touchstone of supremacy and learning, to many of our linguistic torch-bearers, not to speak of their avowed predilection for regionalism.
Madame Tallien, who is supposed occasionally to dictate decrees to the Convention, presides with a more avowed and certain sway over the realms of fashion; and the Turkish draperies that may float very gracefully on a form like hers, are imitated by rotund sesquipedal Fatimas, who make one regret even the tight lacings and unnatural diminishings of our grandmothers. A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
They avow, in their own peculiar way, that the earth is only on loan. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
Unlike many, Bunyan didn't end up disavowing the hippie philosophy.
Acknowledging the confusion, the Supreme Court in 1990 disavowed its earlier opinions and announced a new approach.
The new Prayer Book of 1552 was avowedly Protestant; altars were turned into tables, clerical vestments were downgraded and religious orthodoxy was enforced by a new and more stringent Act of Uniformity.
Agreed that Zell's technique, which cynically is used but disavowed or denied when challenged, is old news. Balkinization
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
I've long been an avowed enemy of benchmarking, because at its heart it amounts to exaltation of imitation.
They explicitly disavow the classical philosophies of formalism, logicism, Platonism, intuitionism, and social constructivism.
His invocation of Lincoln and Washington, and his avowed determination to make hard choices, suggest the former.
To recant is to withdraw or disavow a declared belief, as in renouncing a philosophy or abjuring fealty to a religion.
There are a lot of regular guests who turn up just to tuck into salads, including many who are avowed weight-watchers.
The circumstances of this ageing class warrior tupping his secretary were too repellent even for the politically correct lemon-suckers that so abound this dreary bunch of Socialists who were at last forced to disavow him, albeit under their breath. Weep Not at Slob's Sob Story
In his most lucid moments, however, Emerson disavowed his Dionysian rhetoric.
And, for probation, there needs none, their deeds being notour and public, and the most of them such as themselves do avow and boast of. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
It is a society in which homosexuality is rarely avowed.
This symbolizes the washing away of original sin and the formal entry of the member into the Church or a public avowal of their acceptance of the faith.
The inhabitants seem insensible to these impressions, and are apt to imagine the disgust that we avow is little better than affectation; but they ought to have some compassion for strangers, who have not been used to this kind of sufferance; and consider, whether it may not be worth while to take some pains to vindicate themselves from the reproach that, on this account, they bear among their neighbours. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Well in that case, Mr Annan, you'd better start by disavowing yourself and your odious organisation.
A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.
This symbolizes the washing away of original sin and the formal entry of the member into the Church or a public avowal of their acceptance of the faith.
‘But please do not look for any logic in the movie because you will find none’, he avows.
It would not be an avowable reason that we hoped Wilde would write new plays and books, would it? Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
'disavow' any advisers known to hold certain beliefs about 9/11. Prison Planet.com
Yet, in its disavowal of pure estheticism and visual idealization, Lee's work seems more American than Korean.
They rejected the proposition of the Cincinnati Conference of the M.E. Church to establish, or aid in establishing, a school of a high order for colored youth, upon the ground that it seemed to be the scheme of an avowed colonizationist, * History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Nowadays, resemble peddling avowedly on Internet so the net shop of contraband is not little.
She firmly believes in her father's avowed words.
their policy has been avowedly Marxist
This ‘charming’ story, avowedly in opposition to economics, concerns the evils of industrialism and the inferiority of the African people.
Your avowed friendly countries are like North Korea , which is a rogue nation, and Pakistan , which is sponsor of terrorism.
Other fragrant messengers followed in their season, but, if ever I "win hame to mine ain countrie," I make mine avow to enshrine that first rosebud in my _reliquaire_, with all honor and solemnity, there to abide till one of us shall be dust. Border and Bastille
I think for us to move forward intellectually and politically in avowedly self-reflexive representational spaces such as Kafila - we must be more attentive to the former aspect of subalternity - an effect of power not only as in structures of representation but also as in interactive fields where the elite and the subaltern categories are coproduced. Kafila
In his critical writing, too, Pritchett's manner is to disavow authority and try to escape any hint of self-congratulation.
Mr. Blunkett was clear in his avowed intention to undertake full consultation.
Here he was, dressed in corduroy trousers and a light-blue shirt; concentrating, eyes half closed or fully shut; defined gestures; confident breath; fingers flat on the open holes of his clarinet; the muscles of his mouth tight, yet not puffing out his cheeks around the mouthpiece; his upper lip surprisingly mobile, at times seeming to inhale and swallow the top of the reed and at times curling back as if to convey its decision to keep its distance, disavow that nasty instrument, and, all of a sudden, with sovereign authority, literally cut off its breath … In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)
Berezovsky is now in exile in London, an avowed enemy of President Putin.
It was not the intention of the framers of this law to demonetize silver, because they were openly avowed bimetallists, but it limited coinage to silver bought by the government at market price. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
You cannot separate Hinduism from Buddhism, for without it Hinduism could not have assumed its medieval shape and some forms of Buddhism, such as Lamaism, countenance Brahmanic deities and ceremonies, while in Java and Camboja the two religions were avowedly combined and declared to be the same. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
There is evidence here of a denegation, a strong disavowal of the body in its inert, contemplative and Hegel on Buddhism
But as she avows to an enemy soldier, it would be a ‘mistake thinking I need [the League] to protect me.’
Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both?
An aide avowed that the President had known nothing of the deals.
It will be sufficient to explain my reason for having assigned it to them, by the avowal, that I regard them in a twofold point of view: 1st, as the residue and product of vegetable and animal life; 2d, as manifesting the tendencies of the Life of Nature to vegetation or animalization. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
She avowed herself a singer.
He avowed that he would never cooperate with them again.
It is implied, however, that this is never more than a pretence, a cover, behind which he conceals his unavowed determination to remain at a stage from which he could, if he chose, release himself.
In this respect Anderson is a rare breed among geophysicists, an avowed generalist.
Accuse me not of precipitance, my dear Doctor, nor believe me capable of forgetting the wisdom of your suggestions, nor of lightly weighing those evils with which your zeal has encompassed me, though I write at this instant to confess a total contrariety of sentiment, to call back every promise of delay, and to make an unqualified avowal, that the period of caution is past! Camilla
I also felt pain, and to avoid its endurance for me, I openly and avowedly burdened others with double, treble, centuple its amount. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
Shall we ascribe this to the superiority of their faith and courage, or to our less intimate knowledge of their history!] † Pliny says, that the greater part of the Christians persisted in avowing themselves to be so; the reason for his consulting Trajan was the periclitantium numerus. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Fascist Party openly avowed its aversion to democracy and the liberal state.
An avowedly progressive group, JFSJ has been taking aim at Beck for some time over his attacks on the concept of 'social justice.' EXCLUSIVE: Holocaust historian's quote used to slam Beck without permission
But this does not hold good where the King is the lord of the common pasture, and several persons holding of him in socage have common, because in that case anyone having common may avow a good distress. The Customs of Old England
A distinction was always the avowed aim. Times, Sunday Times
The open letter signed yesterday by both men avows that all the tests ‘could and can’ (but not will) be met.
The senator was forced to avow openly that he had received some money from that company.
But I am no less your son than Papa's, and to disavow my Norman blood would be to disavow you. HERE BE DRAGONS
I show that it is best explicable as an index of old-fashioned attitudes and that its correlation with racism simply shows that it is now old-fashioned to avow openly racist attitudes.
We are endangered from the outside by our avowed enemies.
The avowed aim of the Treasury is to reduce new debt from the present 50 billion German marks to zero by the year 2006.
The witness of the Spirit in the believer himself to his own sonship is not here expressed, but follows as a consequence of believing the witness of God to Jesus 'divine Sonship. believeth not God -- credits not His witness. made him a liar -- a consequence which many who virtually, or even avowedly, do not believe, may well startle back from as fearful blasphemy and presumption (1Jo 1: 10). believeth not the record -- Greek, "believeth not IN the record, or witness. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Some parents refuse to acknowledge such sons as their progeny, and place adverts in newspapers proclaiming disavowal.
It’s past time for sane Believers to join agnostics and atheists in using the same weapon against those who hide behind their avowed Faith. Think Progress » ‘Climate Crime Scene’ declared at Smithsonian’s David H. Koch Hall Of Human Origins.
Wonder if the big news orgs will note this in their coverage of McCain's "disavowal" of Black's remarks. Obama Camp: McCain Flip-Flopped On Question Of Whether Specter Of Terrorism Helps Him Politically!
The traditions of the Christian Church, which overspread the whole of Europe, and set up for worship a Divine Virgin and her Divine Son, both of whom it elaborately disengaged from personal contact with sexuality effectually crushed any attempt to find a sacred and avowable ideal in married love. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
• Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, an avowed otaku, is calling upon manga, anime, fashion and video games to help pull his country out of a recession. Food or Comics | Money, comics and the economy | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
The board disavowed the action of the executive.
It is best explicable as an index of old-fashioned attitudes and its correlation with racism simply shows that it is now old-fashioned to avow openly racist attitudes.
Are men now prepared openly to avow their bisexuality?
As a hakim -- a man of medicine -- he could fill a long-felt want; but by the brand on his accouterments he walked an openly avowed robber, and that made him a brother in crime. In The Time Of Light
(“Friendship-boon”) of Prakrit, avowedly compiled from the “Panchatantra,” became the Hindu Panchopakhyan, the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
That strikes me as a very accurate picture of contemporary American culture: the intellectuals, like Harold Bloom and the late Susan Sontag, are all avowedly non-professional and non-aligned.
Those States have assume the right ofdeciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteenof the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they havepermitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign theproperty of the citizens of other States. DISUNION!
President Obama promised early in his administration to "reinvigorate" antitrust enforcement, which involved the Justice Department disavowing Bush era guidelines. Monsanto Draws Antitrust Scrutiny
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
Having married her, as he openly avowed, for her fortune alone, he soon dissipated this, the solitary charm she possessed for him, and was then unmanful enough to taunt her with the inconveniences of that penury which his own extravagance had occasioned. Life of Lord Byron
A new RSAbased undeniable signature scheme was proposed which is more efficient because of its 3move confirmation and disavowal protocols.
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Acknowledging the confusion, the Supreme Court in 1990 disavowed its earlier opinions and announced a new approach.
His defection aggrieved her so bitterly, that the fiercest of her wrath turned upon him; and after a wrangle wherein all the parties concerned had made liberal use of those "aculeate and proper" words against which the wary Bacon warns his quarrelling readers, she flounced away into the darkness of the small hours of the stormy December morning, loudly avowing her determination never to see a sight of the ugly, dirty, mane-spirited poltroon, or open her lips to him as long as she had an eye or a tongue in her head. Strangers at Lisconnel
Mr. Fillmore took strong ground against what he called a sectional ticket presenting both candidates from the free states, with the avowed purpose of one part of the Union ruling over the whole United Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
They publicly disavowed any connection with terrorist groups.
The avowed objective was to underpin one of the favored Lebanese factions enmeshed in the multilateral disputes in the country.
Resentment of this magnitude was a clear indication of the failure of the avowed policy of pacification and Romanization.
We worked with one hotel chain that avowed to the point of dementia its commitment to customer service and comfort.
Replevin of goods and cattle, avowry for a diilrefs for rent on a leafe for a year. A collection of modern entries; or, Select pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer..
Magdalen is not only brought ‘safely through all kinds of actual and positive wrongdoing without fatal or even serious damage’ but also achieves happiness because she avows and does not repent her past life.
And in this cafe the avowry and aftion of debt ftand on the fame reafon, and agree. The law and practice of distresses and replevin;
On which day here comes as well the faid Sylas as the faid IV. by their attornies aforefaid; and hereupon the pre - judgment for miffes being feen, and by the juftices here more fully underffood, the plaintiff. it feems to the faid juftices here, that the faid plea of the faid Sylas above in rejoining pleaded, and the matter in the fame con - tained, is fufficient in law to preclude him the faid IV. from hav - ing his avowry and cognifance aforefaid,, as the faid Sylas hath above alledged; wherefore the laid Sylas ought to recover his damages The caufe. A collection of modern entries; or, Select pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer..
an avower of his own great intelligence
Americans are increasingly concentrated at opposite ends of the religious spectrum—the highly religious at one pole, and the avowedly secular at the other. American Grace
Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, its advocates are now increasingly disavowing any intention of adding intelligent design to science curricula.
Resentment of this magnitude was a clear indication of the failure of the avowed policy of pacification and Romanization.
If he were an avowed pragmatist with a disinclination to moralise, that would be another matter. Times, Sunday Times
I especially like the distinction between the "avowed" state, whether in the form of marriage or consecrated life, and the charism of freedom that characterizes the state of those who are called to singlehood. Archive 2005-08-01
I don't think it's impermissible for the judge to openly avow that that Constitution is morally praiseworthy, that the United States is morally praiseworthy.
The child copes by disavowing her earlier German-Jewish identity by becoming English and changing her name to Evelyn.
His oeuvre resembles a series of projects, with each one more or less disavowing the others but all involving a new attempt to come to grips with an elusory reality. Nobelprize.org: Nobel Prize for Literature 1998 - Press Release
Yet Marx's original position was not deter - minist: it was avowedly a radical version of Hegelian - ism, in which the self-alienated God of Hegel's Phe - nomenology became self-alienated productive man. DETERMINISM IN HISTORY
Frey's ‘novel’ isn't the first memoir of substance abuse, but with its harsh typesetting, galling repetition and disavowal of adjectives and quotations, his may be the most pointlessly abrasive.
Its strength is not disavowed by its disparate and often contrary nature.
Camus' relationships with Andre Breton and Jean-Paul Sartre had begun to feel the strain that would eventually lead him to disavow all ties with the existentialists.
I detect a David Lynchian coyness here - Lynch is famous for disavowing any complex or psychologized readings of his work.
He avowed himself an opponent of all alliances.
What's more, Clark added, ‘the administration's never disavowed this intent.’
Certainly, if he did not disavow the child's bloodline rights, the kingdom could be in for a difficult and messy transi - tion, but that would not likely afreet Je'howith, who would probably be long dead by that time. Mortalis
Leap not from my car, even though I realize — given my confessed extramarital affair, avowed childhood desire to see my father explode into flames, and carpet of tattered Happy Meal wrappers — I may not strike you as the most reliable explicator of modern marriage. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
As such, the actions of both princes embody a male cultural fantasy of absolute autonomy based on the disavowal of the crucial role that women play as mediators within traditional homosocial culture.
never be wasted, and more, they avow that they have a holy duty to scavenge meat whenever fate offers them the chance. THE BROKEN GOD
It is the classical ‘rounded sentence’, avowedly expressing a complete thought, adopted by writers in the European vernaculars from the prose stylists of Greece and Rome.
These concern the suppression of all terrorist activity on their territory, the transparency of banking and trade arrangements, and the disavowal of weapons of mass destruction.
I disavow all responsibility for you.
‘Dear, dear,’ said Miss Price, quite moved by this avowal of misanthropical sentiments. Nicholas Nickleby
By making it an issue and demanding some kind of disavowal, however, the campaigns bring attention to these comments as a way of painting the other side as hitting below the belt. McCain vs. Schultz - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
Now it may not have to mean avowing all ownership (some copyright notices posted plus description of proper attribution techniques can lead to a reasonable balance point), but it does mean at a minimum that you should be aware that whatever you think you own is likely rapidly decaying as we speak. The Culture of Sharing: Why Releasing Copyright Will Be the Smartest Thing You Do | Write to Done
The manager disavowed any knowledge of my actions.
Then, as now, the issue was the Palestinians' maximalist demands and the refusal of the State Department to insist that the Palestinians "disavow" an agenda that would spell the demise of the Jewish state. Irving Kristol still persuades
Some people cope by denial or disavowal, making open communication less appropriate in the earlier stages.
Some examples of partition have been accepted, with the original land being divided between two sets of peoples, this despite the avowed respect for territorial integrity.
Whatever his intention, I think Scott's disavowal is significant, particularly in light of his consistent refusal to publicly discuss his own ethnic background, which became an issue after Crossfire was released: Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
The culmination is its avowedly "apolitical" Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall on Saturday. Jon Stewart, President Obama debate on 'The Daily Show'
For many avowed foodies and shopaholics, a trip to the FoodWorld is almost a weekly ritual that they thoroughly enjoy.
But before they reach that point of open and avowed defeat, they will fight tooth and nail to maintain the standard of excellence to which they have become accustomed.
One e-mail avowed that too many majors and lieutenant colonels flounder in their first joint assignments.
After openly avowing that his soul was bound with hers, William could not but be impatient with Elizabeth for refusing to make up her mind.
So just how does an avowed introvert who shuns fame and has lacked, for the last 16 years she says, the basic ability to make friends, take such an extroverted record on the road and communicate it to others?
He is an avowed hater of literature.
Despite repeated avowals that he would remain above the push and pull of politics, and that he would keep Islam separate from the state, he has repeatedly shown his willingness to involve himself in political debates.
But it cannot be in an avowry to a replevin, becaufe the avowry is to juftify the taking the cattle \ and whether the mo - ney is paid or not, is not the queftion; but if the diftrefs was rightfully taken, the avowant muft have a return; if wrongfully, he muft anfwer the plaintiff's damages. Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;

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