| His recantations of his Protestantism would have been a major coup. |
| But state Attorney General Jay Nixon, who was fighting the appeal, was able to convince a federal judge that the recantations weren't credible. |
| Meanwhile, critics in sections of the media dismissed the pair's recantations as simply disingenuous nonsense. |
| Unhappily for her, he unexpectedly withdrew his recantations at the last minute as he was to be burned at the stake, thus ruining her government's propaganda victory. |
| Artists guilty or suspected of formalism were persecuted and encouraged to make public recantations for their offences. |
