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How to use recantation in a sentence

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It was striking, although its tone was less contrite than last week's recantation.
But if the critics were anticipating a recantation of his views on politics and art, they were sorely disappointed.
The previous day, he had made a sniveling recantation on the floor of the Senate.
Finally, when she is faced with being burned alive, she recants, but then retracts her recantation and is publicly executed.
This right of recantation exercises itself without penalty, with the exception of the expenses of sends and back.
But Willingham's lawyer was not informed of this development, and soon afterward Webb, without explanation, recanted his recantation.
His defeat in debate with W. H. Beveridge in 1923-24 and the phases of his subsequent recantation of neo-Malthusianism are then considered, as are his views on birth control.
Still, the recantation required Baur to notify a judge and let the courts decide it credible or not.
Luther was given 60 days upon receiving the bull to recant and another 60 days to report his recantation to Rome.
The fact of recantation does not in and of itself require termination of the proceedings.
Further, a recantation clearly demonstrates that the complainant will not co-operate with Crown counsel, and may undermine the Crown's case.
The information about Mr. El Maati's allegation of torture and recantation of his statement was made available to the RCMP, CSIS, DFAIT and Justice personnel involved with the investigations relating to Messrs.
She recanted her accusation and then recanted her recantation.
He died in 1253, after succeeding by recantation in obtaining the removal of his censures.
But, refreshing though the recantation was, as a justification for the rest of Hewitt's proposals it is far less important than the radical spirit on which they are built.
However Crown counsel must bear in mind that the fact of the recantation may indicate pressure has been exerted on the complainant by the accused or persons associated with the accused.
Where Crown counsel is not satisfied that the recantation is true but there is no longer a reasonable prospect of conviction, the case should be terminated.
The complainants later submitted a letter of recantation signed by the woman stating that she was not a personal friend of the victim, had no direct personal knowledge of the facts and regretted her on-air comments.
On January 10, 2010, the Minister asked the Alberta Court of Appeal to decide whether the complainant's recantation was admissible as fresh evidence on appeal and if so, to hear the case as a new appeal.
Once details of the recantation are disclosed to defence, Crown counsel should co-operate in any effort by defence to have the question of release or conditions promptly reviewed by a court of competent jurisdiction.
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He was restored to his pleasant quarters in Newgate, and recanted his recantation.
Becoming, however, sensible of his error, he publicly renounced his recantation.
With regard to the recantation, however, let me say at once, I shall not sign it!
The recantation had seemed to himself to be almost base, and he had been ashamed of it.
Dodds would have sent him to the stake without an opportunity for recantation.
His recantation, which he afterwards made, is in the British Museum.
You say this slavery business is to last until I make my recantation?
It came five years too late, and he recanted his recantation.
He persevered in Calvinism after the recantation of the King.
Every sound of his voice beginning on the old subject stirred her with a terrifying bliss, and she coveted the recantation she feared.
All that had been said before had sounded so like a recantation that these words were too great a shock.
The state bar action against Jackson was instigated in 2014 after the Innocence Project filed a complaint based in part on Webb's recantation.
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