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How to use disowning in a sentence

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Newton learned to exploit the commercial press by secretly publishing his works and disowning them as piracies.
This disowning of historical truth, the deliberate upholding of the crimes of the Communist regime, is humiliating.
Poor old Nick Clegg knows it's all over but he hopes a mixture of sackcloth and ashes and disowning his past will save him.
In other words, Mr Karzai may have to curb his infuriating habit of disowning the war whenever he finds it convenient.
At first, he is disowned by his family-but, in the end, becomes the most grandiose of all upon disowning his father.
Therefore, they transformed the rules without disowning them, thus facilitating the transmission of a forever revised, refined and increased memory and expertise.
Without disowning his background, without confronting anyone, he wished to integrate and reconcile in himself all that the one Lord gives in Churches that are nevertheless still separated.
According to a report on Dubai-based Adnation, Samsung has now issued a statement disowning the work.
Just to single out one point: if you do not even give this Convention the right to elect its own president from among its own members, you are disowning it before the eyes of the European public as a whole.
The last thing Europe needs is the chaotic release of results for 91 banks, with national regulators privately disowning the conclusions and no plan for recapitalising firms that fail the exam.
The guilty people continue to walk the streets of their community and to associate with their political family despite the pretence of disowning them by the Sinn Féin leadership.
From precipice to precipice man has descended spiritually to the point of denying Me and forgetting Me, even to the extreme of denying himself and disowning his essence, which is his spirit.
They fear that if they speak up about personal family matters, they will be rejected by their communities, so in a sense, it is like your family disowning you.
A minority of scholars have taken the position that, in fact, Burke did write the Vindication in earnest, later disowning it only for political reasons.
Examples from Classical Literature
We might just as well ascribe to Darwin the intention of disowning man because he set forth man's natural descent.
The father joined in the upbraiding, the disowning of an undutiful daughter.
The war was occasioned by Black Hawk disowning the treaty and attempting to repossess the territory.
Or at the most, the parent's silence is a confirmation, and his disowning it hindereth only the confirmation.
I would not try to convince him that he was wrong, by disowning a truth because he abused it.
He had, moreover, no intention of disowning his origin when once he could feel safe in assuming his true status.
For a time I felt like disowning that Virginia was my native State.
The disowning of all authority which opposes the Word of God!
Disagreeing elsewhere, they agreed in disowning her, and in keeping the administration of the millionaire's money in their own hands.
Never for an instant did I dream of disowning her as my child.
Hamas Web sites quote a letter by Sheikh Hassan Yousef disowning the son.
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