Then this month she failed to disavow the arrest of two academics, one of whom was beaten.
Rating agencies may disavow that purpose, but it has long since become a source of their prosperity.
Akin also attempted to disavow his insult by claiming that he had used a poor choice of words.
That may have contributed to the princely couple's dogged refusal, in a recent interview, publicly to disavow Jorge Zorreguieta.
Moreover, he is the only leading Turkish politician openly to disavow capital punishment.
Happily, although the chief of the general staff, General Yasar Buyukanit, harrumphed, he refused publicly to disavow Mr Erdogan's potential candidacy.
He says he can negotiate with no Palestinian government that includes Hamas, since it will not recognise Israel or disavow violence.
In meetings with Western journalists its leaders sometimes disavow it altogether and describe themselves as mildly pious social or liberal democrats.
They are expected to disavow music, videos, cigarettes and qat, the leaf Somali men chew most afternoons to get mildly high.
He chose instead to disavow and discredit the paper himself, despite the fact that he is not an expert on the subject.
And since they will not disavow what has become their religion, they will never be convinced that they must stop defending jihadists.
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Just how touchy things still are was evident this week when General Musharraf appeared to disavow his commitment to end infiltration permanently.
Mr. ISIKOFF: Hamas is the Palestinian offshoot, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and of course they don't disavow violence at all.
Although last week Obama issued a statement condemning Farrakhan for his anti-Semitism, he did not disavow Wright - who married him and baptized his daughters.
So Frank came to see President Nixon and used his considerable powers of persuasion on the president and the president agreed to disavow the ABM treaty.
Politicking over the fiscal cliff has begun in earnest highlighting the fact both sides now disavow the cliff (somehow forgetting it was entirely of their making).
Now it took a couple of years for the United States then to disavow the treaty, but ultimately George W. Bush finally did and it's due to Frank.
But in the cases of Godbehere, in Hawaii, and Cox-Brown, in Oregon, the incriminating posts put them in the awkward position of having to disavow their own words, experts say.
Reconciliation of the Taliban is conditional and it would require any Taliban soldier or official to renounce the use of violence, promise allegiance to the Afghan constitution, disavow al Qaeda.
If he paid attention to it, he would have been forced to disavow his policy of blaming his predecessors in the White House and Israel for the absence of peace.
And Israeli and Western governments might withhold even more cash from the PA if Hamas were to join it while still failing unequivocally to recognise Israel or to disavow violence.
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To insulate themselves against Democratic attacks, Republicans now want to subsidise the cost of prescription drugs, disavow plans to privatise Social Security and it seems lock up half of America's top managers for fraud.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
True or not, the revelation has had the desired effect: It put the Azeri government of President Ilham Aliyev on the spot and forced it to disavow any such collaboration with Israel.
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Leading Brothers repeatedly disavow violence and jihad, insisting that they, like Turkey's mild Islamists, would hold multiparty elections if they ever won power and would graciously bow out if the voters told them to.
The Center calls on President Bush to disavow these double hits to U.S. interests by signalling that he will veto any defense bill that fails to provide the essential funds he requested for FY1991.
That was very disrespectful and I completely disavow that kind of pathetic language from my party leader (in 2006) but I think that we have a job to do and we can work together.
Even President Jacques Chirac, who had earlier given the bill his blessing, is reluctant to disavow his troops in the Senate and Mr Jospin is certainly not about to abandon such a popular, left-wing campaign.
We could argue until the cows come home about when and where the right to privacy must be curtailed in order to uphold other individual rights, but we never should disavow or devalue our right to privacy.
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