Word: forswear
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...movement must be morally justified not only in the end it seeks, but also in the means that it employs in achieving that end. If pro-lifers hope to avoid hypocrisy and retain their legitimacy as protectors of "life," they must forswear violence and employ only non-violent means in their struggle against abortion...
...Crossmaglen on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. The killing was the first by the I.R.A. since Ireland and Britain signed the Downing Street Declaration, which outlines a step-by-step peace plan for Northern Ireland. One element of the plan is that the I.R.A. must forswear violence for three months in order to be included in negotiations...
...these sacrifices we're willing to make to fix America? Drive more efficient cars, switch to generic nicotine, forswear government aid we don't really need and pay more tax if we're at the top of the heap...
...lusting after June Cleaver. Our fantasies forswear feeble-minded females. What's in the head trumps what...
...jail time since that puts a financial burden on local law-enforcement systems. The Lambs will stake out the neighborhood where a clinic doctor lives, informing one and all that the practitioner is a "babykiller." They have offered money and shelter to pregnant women, asking that they forswear abortion...