Word: disown
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...dismissed. They are, moreover, unlikely to be settled soon. Far from being eager to hack another piece off his ever more delicate artifact for purposes of a radiocarbon rematch, Cardinal Saldarini called in all outstanding threads and samples without explanation two years ago, announcing only that the church would disown any testing on unreturned remnants. That is bad news, given 20th century humanity's ravenous hunger for literal certainty. Transubstantiation is well and good, but the tantalizing notion that the red spatters on linen are Christ's actual blood, rather than wine as blood, and that the imprint on cloth...
...however, persuaded the U.S. to disown the mines. From her lawn last week, Williams had harsh words for President Clinton, who has refused to sign the treaty until it makes an exception for U.S. land-mine use along the uneasy border between North and South Korea, where 37,000 American soldiers are stationed, and for the use of antipersonnel mines in conjunction with antitank mines. Said Williams: "I think it's tragic that President Clinton does not want to be on the side of humanity." And she found it odd that he had not yet called to congratulate...
...unpopular as Big Tobacco. Although a provision was quietly slipped into last month's tax-cut legislation allowing tobacco companies to use the cost of a gradual 15-cent per pack increase ? some $50 billion ? as a credit towards the proposed $368.5 billion national settlement, Senators began to disown the plan once it was made public. Wednesday, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to squash it altogether. "This is the kind of thing that no Congressman wants to go on the record as having voted for," notes TIME's James Carney. The 95-3 vote showed that...
...thing, however, to condemn an act. It is quite another to disown an ideology. Peres is correct to forestall Israeli withdrawal from Hebron until the Palestinian National Covenant is amended. Though the Covenant is symbolic, it is an important symbol. If Arafat and other Palestinian leaders do not have the courage to expunge that record of hate from their past, they surely will not have the nerve to push on for peace in the months ahead...
Would any baseball purist want to disown the memories of Leyritz's 12th inning, game-winning home run in game two? Or Griffey sliding into home with the game and series winning run in the 11th inning of game 5? No true fan would...