recantation

How To Use recantation In A Sentence

• 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.
• It was striking, although its tone was less contrite than last week's recantation.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• But state Attorney General Jay Nixon, who was fighting the appeal, was able to convince a federal judge that the recantations weren't credible.
• 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