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Example sentences for "disavowed"

Lexicographically close words:
disastrous; disastrously; disavow; disavowal; disavowals; disavowing; disavows; disband; disbanded; disbanding
  1. Fortunately, however, the American Government disavowed General Dix's ill-advised orders, and the prompt action of the Canadian authorities contributed towards a peaceful solution.

  2. If we examine this subject fairly, the great principle of reparation was disavowed of the claim to search our armed vessels, and a homage to our rights.

  3. But it was not recorded that he disavowed the Kaiser's responsibility for it.

  4. But it has not been so followed out; it is disavowed by the power whose assent is necessary to carry it into execution.

  5. In my letter to you, of the 17th June, although I disavowed the particular expressions to which you invited my attention, candor required that I should apprise you of my not having been silent respecting you.

  6. It is true that when astute reflection intervenes, the distinction between extra and intra is disavowed as a finite and human (?

  7. The honour of God cannot be disavowed as an accidental, rude, anthropomorphic conception.

  8. Fremont disavowed by Lincoln and the administration.

  9. True this party had also disavowed any intention of interference with slavery in the States; but restriction was loss of power,--paralysis and death at last.

  10. When were his acts disavowed by the Rebel government?

  11. They had subscribed to the first society; but they reasonably held that this did not pledge them to another, which, though inheriting the secret purposes of the first, no longer masked or disavowed them.

  12. But I am only speaking of general tendencies, and have disavowed any capacity for laying down precise regulations.

  13. And I confess that some utterances about copyrights in these days have jarred upon me, because they seem to imply that the doctrine is not disavowed so unequivocally as it should be by our leaders.

  14. They were released, and the act of Wilkes was disavowed as an exercise of "the right of search" which we had always resisted when exercised by Great Britain, and which had been one of the causes of the War of 1812.

  15. But when the king heard of it, he recalled Erskine and disavowed the agreement, and Madison was forced to declare trade with Great Britain again suspended.

  16. But Suarez had to send the manuscript of his most aggressive book to Rome for revision, and Doellinger used to insist, on the testimony of his secretary, in Walton's Lives, that he disavowed and detested the interpolations that came back.

  17. Cardinals Antonelli, Berardi, and De Luca, and the Secretary Fessler disavowed the Civilta.

  18. The Republican party had heretofore disavowed the doctrine with a unanimity nearly as great as that exhibited by the little council of Mr. Lincoln's immediate friends.

  19. It is one peculiarity in these Sokratic dialogues, that the sentiment of authority, instead of being invoked and worked up, as is generally done in philosophy, is formally disavowed and practically set aside.

  20. Disappointed and indignant, the Athenians disavowed the act of Chabrias, in spite of his high reputation.

  21. Even the ephors, who had secretly authorized him beforehand to coƶperate generally with the faction at Thebes, having doubtless never given any specific instructions, now indignantly disavowed him.

  22. The Emperor, the moment of his return to Vienna, disavowed the concessions which had been made by his governors to quiet the Brabantines.

  23. The Emperor, on his return to Vienna, disavowed the concessions of his Governors General to his subjects of Brabant.

  24. For if they themselves are not defiled by offences condemned by themselves, and afterwards condoned, how much less can we be defiled by what we have disavowed so soon as we have heard of them!

  25. But that Government has unequivocally disavowed any design to deny the right of transit to the minister of the United States, and after explanations to this effect he has resumed his journey and actually returned through France to Spain.

  26. It does not appear, however, that Henry ever intended to recognize the antipope; and, whatever the promises were, he promptly disavowed them.

  27. They promised to do whatever was commanded, and they gave hostages, but on their return they found their negotiations disavowed and the city determined to stand a siege.

  28. The American Colonization Society has, at all times, solemnly disavowed any purpose of interference with the institutions or rights of our Southern communities.


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