How To Use Recant In A Sentence

  • We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.
  • The alleged recantation/conversion are embellishments that others have either read into the story or made up for themselves.
  • He made a public recantation of all his former beliefs.
  • We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.
  • He'd gone to considerable trouble to set up that lever to force Rickmore to recant or, if he wouldn't, to destroy his value as a witness. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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  • Artists guilty or suspected of formalism were persecuted and encouraged to make public recantations for their offences.
  • He often recanted, and the recantation was a thousand times worse than the thing recanted. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
  • At Trebizond, a young man, refusing to sign the recantation, was beaten on the soles of his feet, the vartabed aiding with his own hands in inflicting the blows. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.
  • Would that, for the sake of herself and her beautiful daughter ... would that for the sake of public morality, Mrs. Robinson were persuaded to dismiss the gloomy phantom of annihilation; to think seriously of a future rebribution; and to communicate to the world a recantation of errors that originated in levity, and have been nursed by pleasure. Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
  • The auditor is pretty much a done deal unless Ferguson recants which is unlikely. Sound Politics: Testify to the King County Council on behalf of an elected auditor
  • This woman received over 100 phone calls a day, urging her to recant.
  • We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them , but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly.
  • So, tell me then ... what was the statement that the Vatican demanded that Galileo "recant"? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Very often, when you look at what the defense attorney now labels a recantation, you see that in fact the witness has not really recanted anything at all, but instead has merely asserted somehow or other that they think the individual is innocent usually in the abstract, without addressing specific factual questions or prior statements by that witness. The Volokh Conspiracy » New Way to Resolve Actual Innocence Claims in Capital Cases?:
  • Again I think you spoke in haste, and I hereby give you the opportunity to recant.
  • He tried to recant the terms of the contest, right then and there, and became apoplectic with rage when he discovered who it was who had duped him.
  • The previous day, he had made a sniveling recantation on the floor of the Senate.
  • There is no reason to suppose that the idea of sparing him was ever entertained; but, wherever the blame lay, he was led to believe that a recantation might save him; and he did now at last break down utterly, and recant in the most abject terms. England under the Tudors
  • We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them , but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly.
  • Artists guilty or suspected of formalism were persecuted and encouraged to make public recantations for their offences.
  • We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.
  • Court documents and medical records indicate that she would say she was suicidal or that her father beat her, and then she would recant.
  • Such political scientists have since been recanting and admitting that One Party states simply bred autocracy and misrule by refusing to tolerate criticism and dissent.
  • He rises with the occasion, and the sheepish "gaby" becomes the knowing practical man; his is now the voice of authority, and his comrades recant on the spot, acknowledge his superiority without a murmur, and perform "ko-tow" before the once despised man of undeveloped abilities. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
  • 7 'Liberi parentes alant aut vinciant: quidam alterum fratrem tyrannum occidit, alterum in adulterio deprehensum deprecante patre interfecit. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
  • She tempested out of Miss Cotton's house, all tearful under the veil she had pulled down, and as she shut the door of her coupe, Miss Cotton's heart jumped into her throat with an impulse to run after her, to recall her, to recant, to modify everything. April Hopes
  • But with this issue, the bishop must "recant," i.e. not just renounce his views but seek human and divine forgiveness. Vatican says bishop's apology is not enough | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • Emily Bazelon and I researched false rape allegations for Slate in 2009, when a Hofstra student garnered headlines for recanting after claiming that she was gang-raped by five men in a bathroom.
  • To recant is to withdraw or disavow a declared belief, as in renouncing a philosophy or abjuring fealty to a religion.
  • And I don't think he has worked with her, ever, so I recant what I said before.
  • Chancellor in the most personal terms harangued against Fox, and concluded with saying that "he despised his scurrility as much as his adulation and recantation. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
  • With the recent 'recant' of the first accuser and the acquittal of the charges brought against Michael Jackson in 2005, peace will never be still. Rep. King on Jackson: 'There's nothing good about this guy'
  • And he says he's managed to convince her to recant her accusation concerning your talent. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • The cardinal plainly told him so; and as it is, he has signed a paper which they call a recantation of heresy. For the Faith
  • If they had any sense of decency they would recant and resign.
  • We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.
  • I doubted also whether to make a distinction of ages, or to treat young and old alike; whether to allow space for recantation, or to refuse all pardon whatever to one who had been a Christian; whether, finally, to make the name penal, though no crime should be proved, or to reserve the penalty for the combination of both. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
  • As the same fate awaited the wife of the delator also, unless she recanted, we have here an example of three, possibly four, persons suffering capital punishment on the accusation of a man actuated by malice, solely for the reason that his wife had given up the evil life she had previously led in his society (St. Justin Martyr, II, Apol., ii). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Successive governments denied that the region had been a theatre of war: pressure from veterans has forced recantation.
  • Finally, when she is faced with being burned alive, she recants, but then retracts her recantation and is publicly executed.
  • Given the choice to recant, martyrs chose instead to face their murderers and stand in witness to their beliefs.
  • But it was already too late to recant: Cesaria's shadow self was in motion. GALILEE
  • He recanted his faith.
  • This did not appease: but on the return of the bill to the House of Lords, where our amendments were to be read, the Chancellor in the most personal terms harangued against Fox, and concluded with saying that “he despised his scurrility as much as his adulation and recantation.” Letters of Horace Walpole 01
  • Foot detox is a popular treatment that has been so heavily endorsed that if it proved to be nonsense, most mainstream sources would be reluctant to recant. Archive 2004-05-01
  • MONTROSE - The Bureau of Reclamation's Curecanti Field Office has announced that the East Portal Road, east of Montrose, is open after being closed for the winter months. GJSentinel.com
  • Gill may have recanted, but what's said cannot be unsaid, and Ferguson must now deal with the notion that his future is more publicly on the agenda.
  • Right after saying this, he was taken indoors and told to recant, which he did publicly, an act of humiliation that reinforced his earlier comment.
  • But not one of Jesus's early disciples who believed that they had met Jesus after the resurrection ever recanted.
  • It was striking, although its tone was less contrite than last week's recantation.
  • And he says he's managed to convince her to recant her accusation concerning your talent. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • Okay I recant the bootlicker comment; I still read the brand that way though. Health Reform Showdown | Will It Pass?
  • Some of their key witnesses are dead, others are badly discredited and still others have recanted.
  • He is getting crosser and crosser with Sir John for failing to recant.
  • Galileo Galilei, the most prominent of these, was jailed and forced to recant that the earth revolved around the sun.
  • But it was already too late to recant: Cesaria's shadow self was in motion. GALILEE
  • It reminds me a little bit of the Welsh side of my family who a generation back refused to learn Welsh or take Welsh culture seriously, and are now recanting.
  • To the Crown, however, a recantation is a red flag signalling that a woman has been pressured to drop her allegations. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Anyone with any knowledge of DV knows how often victims recant, which is why there are laws allowing police to prosecute them even in the absence of cooperation from the victim. Boyfriend Gets Life Sentence Under “Fetal Protection” Law
  • He claimed that he himself was a member of the CIA (a charge he later recanted) and said he had been recruited “between 1970 and 1971” and trained in counterintelligence in Panama and Venezuela. Twilight of the Assassins
  • The Mustache Institute - a tongue-in-check group dedicated to defending a man's right to sport a mustache against modern aversions - is demanding Snarr "recant" his shaving pledge and find another way to support the Children's Miracle Network. The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front
  • But if the critics were anticipating a recantation of his views on politics and art they were sorely disappointed.
  • Successive governments denied that the region had been a theatre of war: pressure from veterans has forced recantation.
  • He'd gone to considerable trouble to set up that lever to force Rickmore to recant or, if he wouldn't, to destroy his value as a witness. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
  • Smedley immediately went to court, forcing the army to recant publicly.
  • He initially backed them up but later recanted, telling prosecutors there was no agreement.
  • Smedley immediately went to court, forcing the army to recant publicly.
  • Paschal, in response to this criticism and schismatis et discordiae metuens, recanted his decision to allow Bruno to be both abbot and bishop at once and compelled him to return to Segni. 15 If Bruno had seen the abbacy of Monte Cassino as placing him closer to the papacy, this certainly put an end to that ambition. Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform"
  • That girl, whose latest breath ascended in this sublime expression of self-oblivion, did not utter the word recant either with her lips or in her heart. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
  • We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them , but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly.
  • She never recanted - too fearful of losing the Duchess's abolitionist support - but unwittingly played a pivotal role in giving the Highland Scot a voice by provoking MacLeod's coruscating riposte.
  • It is possible that at the approach of senescence he may recant, forgive his enemies, make his peace with the world and become a benevolent father to his nation.
  • So far he has failed to recant on his support for the war, despite the absence of those weapons.
  • One of them is the book ‘Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Iran’ by Ervand Abrahamian, 1999. Global Voices in English » Iran: Leading reformist Abtahi on trial
  • And he says he's managed to convince her to recant her accusation concerning your talent. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • But he says that to walk in that procession, to take part in that act of so-called recantation and reconciliation, would be in itself as a confession that those things which he had held and taught were heretical. For the Faith
  • Tu libens votis, petimus, precantum, regis æterni genetrix, faveto, clara quæ fundis Geniti benigni munera lucis. "The Feast of the Purification of the B. V. Mary (Feb. 2)" (also called "Candlemas," and "The Presentation")
  • If so, WHAT was it that the Vatican demanded that he "recant"? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Though he was forced to change his religion,he would not recant.
  • But it was already too late to recant: Cesaria's shadow self was in motion. GALILEE
  • But state Attorney General Jay Nixon, who was fighting the appeal, was able to convince a federal judge that the recantations weren't credible.
  • We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them , but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly.
  • Indeed, Beatrice is notorious for signing the 1889 women's appeal against female suffrage, though she later recanted.
  • He admitted his role in the kidnapping during his first court appearance on February 14 but later recanted.
  • We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.
  • Allegations were followed by admissions that were followed by denials and recanting.
  • What he would contest, though, is the implication that Darwin had recanted his evolutionist theories and embraced the church - a claim strenuously denied by his family.
  • To his credit, he was quick to recant, offering an unconditional apology.
  • But then, after being released and taken to the hospital, she recanted to a police officer -- saying that she had not been raped but rather "groped" by some of the players. Doubts About Duke
  • He could think of nothing he had ever written that he would not eagerly recant.
  • The lawsuit claims that as the prosecution's case began to "evaporate" in 1995 — with three witnesses either recanting, refusing to cooperate or fleeing the area in violation of probation — Mr. Vecchione employed illegal tactics to coerce the witnesses into giving false statements and testimony. Freed Prisoner Alleges Prosecutorial Misconduct
  • Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical, he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz.
  • Their petition highlighted the seriously disturbing timing and the circumstances of the so-called recantation, describing that Nicole's counsel, Atty. Davao Today
  • McNamara did not recant at the meeting nor did he apologize.
  • _A Recantation of an Ill-led Life_, or a discovery of the highway law, as also many _cautelous_ admonitions, and ful instructions how to know, shun, and apprehende a _thiefe_, most necessary for all honest travellers to peruse, observe, and practice; written by _John Clavel_, gent. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829
  • And the purgation was a recantation, which began thus, -- Phaedrus
  • True, there are recantations from most of the witnesses against him, but the law "disfavors" consideration of recantations, he opines, and besides the pressures put on these witnesses either from internal bias or pressure from the police, don't matter. Andrea Lyon: Close Enough Isn't Good Enough
  • After a year spent in solitary confinement, he publicly recanted .
  • Elizabeth Cooper, wife of a pewterer, of St. Andrews, Norwich, had recanted; but, tortured for what she had done by the worm which dieth not, she shortly after voluntarily entered her parish church during the time of the popish service, and standing up, audibly proclaimed that she revoked her former recantation, and cautioned the people to avoid her unworthy example. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
  • With its converse insight into the modality of romantic apostasy, this volatile epigram is nothing less than the fulcrum with which we can gain sufficient purchase to negotiate the critical conversions of Coleridgean recantation, from the odes of the 1790s through the desultory journalism of the 1800s and 1810s to the "Logosophia" of 1817 and after. The Multeity of Coleridgean Apostasy
  • He may have recanted on the hard-line economics, but people here still regard him as one of the leaders of the English party.
  • The fact that he recanted in time to not lie under oath should, in fact, have reflected well on him.
  • Toe-sucker, Dick Morris tells a bold-faced, fabricated lie on TV, and recants it two days later — but not before drugster Lintball has run with it and told his brainwashed, trigger-happy audience the lie. Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 21, 2010
  • Luther was ordered to recant on the threat of excommunication.
  • He'd gone to considerable trouble to set up that lever to force Rickmore to recant or, if he wouldn't, to destroy his value as a witness. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
  • The girl then recanted – only to admit later that her recantation was a lie told in order to stay with her mother, the state argues. Waldo Jaquith - Carpitcher case goes before Virginia Supreme Court.
  • The term Nazarite signifies _separated_; and is commonly applied to persons who make a vow to live in a more holy manner than others, either during a certain specified number of years, or ever after the pledge is given, without recantation or change. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I

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