Audin was trying to find a way to hold on to some scrap of his power and prestige, while we tried to disabuse him of the notion that he had any future in Gardez.
The conversation between Couri and the patient is out of the Bizarro World Garden of Eden: Eve walks in with full knowledge of good and evil, and the snake tries to disabuse her of it with doubletalk.
Has he done anything to disabuse people of that concern in recent days, Ron Elving?
Many people in Congo do believe in magic and Mr Gulick does not propose to disabuse them of the notion.
In particular, it should disabuse itself of the dangerous notion that the Afghan government is in the pocket of the Indians.
Deputy Fleming was determined to disabuse me of this assumption.
Please let me disabuse you of this notion.
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We as a nation need to quickly disabuse ourselves of the fairy tale notion that such a mind is responsive to care and feeding, to persuasion, to expressions of guilt, to compromise of any kind.
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To disabuse Havana of its assumption that revival of the Juragua complex will somehow have a large direct or indirect payoff in the end, it may be worthwhile recalling another world-class energy deal pursued by the Soviet Union under Ronald Reagan's watch.
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The working classes are more inclined to be less willing -or able - to disabuse themselves of such obsolescent notions as "One has to love the person before lovemaking is possible, " rather than today's conception of "performance, " which is being able to mount anyone, anytime and anywhere, for no good reason at all.
Mr. Bush must use the occasion of his visit to China to disabuse its leaders of the notion that we are indifferent to that agenda, or unwilling to resist it.
It will no doubt take a generation to disabuse the Palestinians of this belief.
Instead of using the bully pulpit to disabuse his Democrat colleagues in Congress of their cockamamie notion that we can tax, borrow, spend and redistribute our way to prosperity, a few days after his radio address he called for tax increases and more redistributive social welfare spending.
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Let us hope that for once Washington will disabuse the Palestinian dictator of the notion that we will extract from Jerusalem concessions he couldn't win on his own.
Though you might dispute whether the ability to, say, properly place a football pass is a learned or inherited trait, you still might find the infographic useful at home or in the classroom, as you struggle to disabuse your young charges of a canard to which even education columnists fall prey.
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We were deep into the Great Recession, more businesses than not were scrambling to survive in the face of vastly changed fortunes, and it was more difficult than ever before to disabuse non-marketing senior management of their conviction that marketing is a cost center, not an investment.
The challenge, says Mr Stern, is a political one: to disabuse the rich-world foes of liberalisation.
If reporters believed that they had witnessed an American drive deep into the heart of the capital, Mr. Sahhaf, in the green uniform and black beret of the ruling Baath Party, wished to disabuse them.
News of the result hasn't yet reached everyone in the organic farming crowd, but why disabuse them?
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