Sentences with phrase «abjure such»

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.