Word: impugns
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...Church" and "St. Paul Was a Rebel." More than 1,000 Catholics-including a number of nuns and Jesuit priests-signed an "open letter" to the chancery and to Berrigan's superiors that appeared as an advertisement in the New York Times. The co-signers did not impugn the motives of those responsible for Berrigan's removal, nor did they necessarily agree with his pacifist views. But, they said, as a symbolic affirmation of freedom, Berrigan should be allowed to return to his work in New York...
...Never before have I heard such irrational, irresponsible, insulting and repugnant language in these chambers-and language used, if you please, contemptuously to impugn and slander a gallant and successful effort to save human lives of many nationalities and colors...
Indeed an inaccurate allegation has been made which may impugn my motives. The truth is that the Ngo Dinh Diem government did not expropriate any property of mine by application of its land reform of 1956. By that time most of the land I had in excess of the allowed 247 acres had been abandoned by me and even by the peasants because of insecurity in that area of the province of Rach-Gia during the long Indo-Chinese war of 1946-54. This can be checked at the Department of Land Reform in Saigon and will give an idea...
...CONFUSE SELF-INTEREST WITH CONVICTIONS OF FAITH. Christians can be encouraged to disguise "selfishly motivated actions in theological, liturgical, or ethical dress. They will impugn the ritualism or moral laxity of another church. But to treat the matter openly on the plane of money, position, or power-well, that is asking too much of even a Christian...
...American people will decide who stabbed whom in the back. In any case the chairman of this subcommittee does not intend to have any witness, regardless of his previous position, impugn the motives of the Senate by such a remark...