Sentences with phrase «abjure all»

Unethical billing undermines the reputation of all legal professionals, including the majority who abjure such practices.

Those who abjure all those nasty carbon emitting activities and become suitably pure as the driven snow and are therefore acceptable as messengers?

Even his effulgently pinkish floral still - lifes abjure virtuosity, though they beguile.

In other words, they go it alone, abjure government, and do things it can't or won't do, even when that may mean «privileging the views of elites.»

Faithful to «progressive» traditions and postmodern beliefs, too many education school professors signal to future teachers that they should abjure firm distinctions between right and wrong.

Although certain forms of school choice (tax credits, some voucher programs) abjure state academic standards and tests, others (such as charter schools and public school choice) normally take them for granted.

The tracksuit is, according to Jane and Michael Stern's The Encyclopedia Of Bad Taste, «the uniform of people who abjure dry cleaners and ironing boards» as well as «the all - purpose solution to all clothing problems.»

Babette's lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family's dwindling congregation, who abjure such fleshly pleasures as fine foods and wines.

But on the whole, the realities of a single member constituency, first past the post, electoral system has seen the two sides abjure illusory happiness in the arms of another, and stick together for the sake of the kids.

Finally I do not want to abjure for fear of making myself a perjurer.

It would not abjure ambiguity or fear irreverence or humor.

Wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and of every true Christian this vehement suspicion justly cast upon me, with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I do abjure, damn, and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally each and every other error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Church; and I do swear for the future that I shall never again speak or assert, orally or in writing, such things as might bring me under similar suspicion.

We hear him say, «this rough magic I here abjure» (V.I. 50 - 51) and «Now my charms are all o'erthrown» (Epilogue).

This is much to be regretted, not for any reasons of personal ambition, which I abjure completely, but because in the cause of postpartisanship (if not postmodernism) I believe a participant from the Culture 11 group (may it rest in peace) would add immeasurably to the depth of the dialogue going on within the administration, mixing it up with the likes of Susan Rice and Samantha Power (reminding them there was a free election in Iraq on Saturday), or with Lawrence Summers (recalling to him, since he failed so conspicuously in stimulating the women at Harvard, how one might do better with the economy).

But they should abjure religious indoctrination in the public schools.

I deny denounce, and abjure any notion that human beings are born broken or remain broken because of their humanity.

P «I advise you to abjure, honor and worship our Gods like all of us here and you will continue to live among us.

As well as eating and drinking, the faithful are expected to abstain from smoking and sexual relations between dawn and dusk, and to abjure lies, slander, greed, covetousness, giving false oath and denouncing someone behind their back (all of these are prohibited throughout the year by Islam.

The question is why did the Protestants abjure the idea of Eucharistic Sacrifice?

He was required to «abjure, curse and detest» those opinions.

I abjure you to have patience.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

Galileo was then interrogated under threat of torture, and made to abjure the «vehement suspicion of heresy».

The philosopher does not start from a faith in being's intelligible disclosure of itself — in fact, he starts by explicitly abjuring such faith — but rather vests his trust in the power of the self to posit reality from its own unshakeable position.

The key question for theology is whether Kant can make any sense out of who the scriptures say Jesus is rather than abjuring the task and simply correcting the apostolic witness in light of some higher «religious» principle.

It may be noted in passing that Altizer is in some sense the victim and product of the most extreme degree of that very dualism which he abjures so strongly in the name of Hegel.

In contrast to liberalism, which abjures common ends, covenant directs political and social activity toward the common good.

A: «I have given you my opinion on abjuring and sacrifice.

We would be better able to answer that question if Hasker had told us exactly which views often held by other traditional free will theists he has abjured.

Prospero's abjuring of magic is parallel to Orestes» killing of the faithless mother, and his return to his rightful Dukedom is parallel to Orestes» return to Argos and his princely duties.

Amar considers himself a textualist, one who abjures free - wheeling constitutional invention and insists that constitutional meaning must be extracted from the words of the document itself, rightly construed.

Christ's perfect union of divinity and humanity is the central mystery of the Incarnation, and, as de Lubac pointed out a generation ago, the abjuring of this paradox marked the heretics of the early Church, not her faithful adherents: the Adoptionists and Docetists were the ones who refused to live with the ultimate inscrutability of the God - Man.

He was abjured not to come with a written statement but be ready, at the same time tomorrow, to answer verbally.

Has he abjured his past flirtations with the «impressionism and relativism» so roundly anathematized by earlier critics?

In Rabbi Johanan's exegesis (Megillah 13a), Mordecai is so insistently called a Jew «because he abjured paganism [«avodah zarah], for everyone who abjures paganism is called a Jew; as is written (Daniel 3:12): `... Jews... serve not thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou has set up.

For a long time, that's been a confounding problem in the search for life beyond Earth: If alien life looks nothing like it does on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered it?

By abjuring her «rough magic,» burying her magician's staff and drowning her book of spells, Prospera elects to live in a world without supernatural possibilities; having demonstrated the power of art, she accepts the limits of that power and forsakes hubris for humility, something Ms. Taymor seems unable to do.

Some reformers might say Dr. Diane Ravitch «abjured» her previous beliefs.

Abjuring the airy we - really - must - get - together - sometime feints common to London, which can carry on indefinitely without threatening to clutter your diary with a real time and place, Jude had seemed driven to nail down a foursome so that her illustrator could meet her husband, Ramsey.

What's more, the «untitled originals,» as they are called, possess the kind of classical art virtues that academic postmodernism typically abjures — things like technical virtuosity, sincerity, melodrama, and popular narrative.

The photographer and art historian Jeff Wall has written that while many other conceptual artists «abjured, apparently for good, any involvement with the world» outside of their methodologies, Mr. Graham's aim has always been «to remain involved with the wider world as a subject and occasion for art, but to structure that involvement in the rigorously self - reflexive terms» opened up by conceptualism.

By the way, I hear he has reverted to his earlier views now, and abjures the climate pessimism he propounded in «Revenge of Gaia».

What we have is a scheme — using spelling rules — for measuring the «creativity» and «innovation» of science and literature while abjuring «meaning» and «significance» because that can be «anything» you care for it to be.

The first of these is generally abjured as corruption, although it is a real factor in some jurisdictions.

Data that was earlier abjured due to constraints related to traditional data management technologies intended to handle volume, variety and velocity.

Because the digital currency abjured central banks and other authorities, many of its first devotees were libertarians, anarchists, and black marketeers who wanted to do business away from the government's watchful eye.