My family didn't disown us but they wouldn't come near us because he was there. |
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But lots of under-age girls believe their families will disown them if they find out they are pregnant, and most are wrong. |
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Neither do you disown a book that provided ideas and impulses to a generation of political science professionals. |
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We prefer to think of ourselves as healthy and indestructible, and we disown our ailments and frailties. |
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The Right are trying to disown it, engaging in the most shocking revisionism and paralogical torsions imaginable. |
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No, I don't want to disown Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, the first of whom is something of a hero of historical linguistics. |
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Under the sheer weight of numbers, grandparents, aunts and uncles have begun to disown their own. |
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Or if the animal is on a lead, the owner stands apart as far as he can, looking away, thus making an attempt to disown it. |
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I'm sure your friends will feign interest for two seconds the quickly disown you if you purchase a pair to show off. |
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How can the government refuse to disown these anti-American slurs of its own MPs when these are hurting Canadian jobs? |
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If we, by means of the Corbett Report, have included it, we cannot be the first to disown it. |
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Milder colleagues don't want to be disloyal and disown them, but sometimes wish they'd shut up. |
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We may be unfaithful, but he is always faithful, for he cannot disown his own self. |
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Her parents were furious when they learned of her condition and threatened to disinherit or disown her. |
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Most puzzlingly, the Liberal Democrat leader appeared to disown his party's own manifesto twice. |
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For all his admissions of total artistic compromise, Auburtin is far too decent to disown the movie. |
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At home, ministers denounce and disown the policies for which they themselves have voted in Brussels. |
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To disown the body will not prevent it from going ahead, the US will simply lose all influence over the way the rules develop. |
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Having been so central to its conception, our governments will not be able to disown the constitution lightly. |
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As is often the wont of those who have succeeded through factional alliances, when ambition calls, the instinct is to disown your own and condemn others. |
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He helped win the Cold War for a country that he would probably now disown more than ever. |
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When Clive Goodman was jailed for phone hacking back in 2007, his employers were quick to disown him. |
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I never thought your parents would totally cut you off and disown you. |
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My family will disown me upon hearing the news that I surrendered. |
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Family members would disown you if they knew you watched it. |
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The Spanish authorities would later disown this treaty with the Tlaxcalans after the fall of Tenochtitlan. |
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His father, Alba, threatened to disown him if he stopped the siege, so the barbarities intensified. |
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Between triumph and destruction, Berlin cannot disown its past. |
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She claimed that her parents had threatened to disown her, stop supporting her financially, and send her to live in Pakistan if she refused to marry. |
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I do not come to disown any of the words I spoke to you in the past, on the contrary, I come to duly fulfill them and give them their just explanation. |
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I regret this situation and in face of this problem, which is not to disown a considerable part of the text we adopted with the first amendment but to keep our word to the Council, I recommend abstention. |
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However, it appears Philip never intended to disown his politically and militarily trained son. |
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The European Union was built on values and principles that we cannot disown with a deafening silence during an accession procedure for the sake of diplomacy. |
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They have freely entered into a covenant which results in their being judged, and they have everything to gain by ensuring that its implementation remains effective if they are not to disown what they willed into being. |
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Finally, if our national leaders want to set an example of justice and good governance let them disown their own foreign ministers who disgracefully want to put the Agency for Reconstruction of Kosovo in Thessaloniki. |
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We know, however, that, even at the worst moments of the scandals that tarnished the Santer Commission, it has never had the political courage to disown the institution symbolic of the European superstate. |
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That most of these groups have chosen not to disown their roots or their principles in order to win over the media and the general population hasn't helped. |
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They told him they knew he had some big problems, that I wanted to disown him, that his fiancée was also in prison and that his problems would be sorted out later if he confessed to the crime. |
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It concerns me very much as well and I would like you to disown the statements of your Foreign Minister in which he states that the approach of the Quartet and the International Conference on the Middle East makes no sense. |
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Although some, such as Carvajal, advised Gonzalo to proclaim himself King of Peru and to disown any further claim by the King of Spain to the land, Gonzalo refused. |
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Her parents threatened to disown her if she didn't go back to school. |
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