Word: disown
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...National Council for Democracy and Development. Conté, who was buried on Friday, was a heavy smoker and a diabetic, and had groomed no successor. The Parliament's speaker Aboubacar Sompare - who by law should have stepped in as leader-urged soldiers not directly involved in the putsch to disown Camara. But Guinea's 10 million people and its rank and file soldiers appeared to have little stomach for a fight they would very likely lose. (Read TIME's Top 10 News Stories of the Year...
...Yale’s. “[Harvard also has the] biggest endowment, which leads to all sorts of great puns,” said Fish. Despite mutual teasing and criticism, however, students said the rivalry does not run deep. “My sister probably threatened to disown me at some point, but overall I think she understood,” said Jeremy Patashnik ’12. His sister, Ariel Patashnik, is currently a senior at Yale, and stayed in his dorm room with her friends over the weekend. Students said they ultimately manage to rise above school...
...more disown him than I can disown the black community.' BARACK OBAMA, defending Wright in a landmark Philadelphia speech on U.S. race relations...
...loving grandson could also be a judging one, as Obama showed in his Philadelphia speech on race early this year. He attempted to explain his relationship with his former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, by talking about another complicated relationship: "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street...
...March 18 in Philadelphia, Obama attempted to defend his relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, by talking about another complicated relationship: "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe...