Word: disavow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President stand by the quotations in the book? Four times newsmen gave the President a chance to disavow them and each time he passed up the opportunity with a sharp no comment...
...against this tide of Red agnosticism . . . The United States needs to know who are with us." He made this proposal: "The United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. If that is impractical, then a definite New United Front should be organized of those peoples who disavow Communism . . . All this may give pain to some people. But by their cries ye shall know them...
...London with its "leagues of lights"; he roamed the streets in horror that the seething crowds he found there would soon be lying horizontal underground. Like the middle class whose poet he became, Tennyson spent most of his life in a vague struggle to soften, to disavow the harsh materialism of mines and factories that made the wealth of England and killed her poor in slums; to cling to the beauty of the spirit and to belief...
Against this, Stalin's interviews with Roy Howard (1936) and Harold King of Reuters (1943), purporting to disavow world revolutionary aims, can only appear as eyewash, and that is just how Historicus explains them. The interviews, he says, "do not really contradict the strategic aim of world revolution because they refer to a temporary tactic...
...splitting the East and West than any so-called ideological warfare. Iran, keystone of an important Anglo-American oil reservoir, is the stage for an oil dispute that threatens to boil over momentarily. Skittish over Russian expansion towards the Persian Gulf, the United States has influenced Iran to disavow a proposed oil-rights contract with Russia in a move that has Moscow frothing. This most recent indication of a return to the naked power politics of pre-war years defeats the purpose of the U.N. and suggests a headlong race for natural resources...