If The War Lover lacks the humor of Joseph Heller's famously absurdist work, it also abjures its cartoonish adolescent simplifications.
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Malays in neighbouring Singapore, which abjures racial preferences, have seen their incomes grow just as fast as those of Malays in Malaysia.
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"The Analects", a book of his sayings, praises the scholar who "does not seek the gratification of his appetite" and abjures indulgent banquets.
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Time and again it abjures well-functioning, if imperfect, markets, opting instead to put a government thumb on the scale in favor of its preferred outcome — whether supported by economic logic or not.
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But still, that was almost 50 years ago: Today feminist arguments are clearly dominant, population-control arguments are in relative abeyance, and the pro-choice consensus officially abjures both racism and authoritarian eugenics.
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On the other hand, the policy exempts parody and satire, which would seem to require precisely the kind of interpretive judgment that the company abjures to the point of outsourcing fact-checking to third parties.
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When the United States abjures its responsibility to the world's most vulnerable people, it forgoes its moral authority to call upon the countries of Europe, as well as poorer nations like Lebanon, Turkey, Kenya and Pakistan, which host over five million refugees among them, to provide such shelter.
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It's, of course, really weird to have a movie that abjures superstardom in favor of teamwork that then stars a bunch of genuine basketball superstars, just as it's bizarre to have a movie obsessed with authenticity and doing things for the love of the game that was made, in part, by a gigantic soda corporation.
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He blames himself. He especially regrets that he was against the Reds. Tanirbergen tortured with his internal dialogue to himself abjures everything. In time he disenchanted with life itself.
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Hardy himself considered "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" the best of all his poems.I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Cambridge 1993) p. 943 Gilbert Murray thought "He Abjures Love" had a Horatian quality; and Ezra Pound saw "The Revisitation" as anticipating Hardy's Poems 1912-13.
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Davit the Rector also copied, collected, and catalogued old Georgian manuscripts, and compiled a bibliography of Georgian writers. He was also a poet of some talent, affected by the influence of his contemporary Georgian poet Besiki, but Davit's best-known poem mukhambazi (მუხამბაზი) abjures Besiki's aesthetics.
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Jupiter has yet another new emotion: compassion. Jupiter then leaves Alcmene, abjures from the challenge to mend harmony on Earth. He returns to the Heavens, re-assuming his role as Eternal Ruler of The Universe, albeit dolefully. The show is first and foremost a Comedy, and uses (and abuses) a few inside jokes.
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Pierre, the hermit, breaks up a row between the family vassals and abjures them to join his crusade. He proposes that Agnès should marry Rodoplhe's brother Théobald to cement relations between the families. The lovers agree that to escape, Agnès should disguise herself as the ghost of the nonne sanglante and elope with him at midnight.
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In this novel, she pushes Sookie into a car trunk where Bill is being concealed after Sookie rescues him from being starved and tortured by Lorena. It is revealed in the fourth book, Dead to the World, that Debbie had participated in Bill’s torture. Alcide then abjures her from the Shreveport pack. At the end of this book, Debbie shoots at Sookie, but Eric takes the bullet instead.
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Alcide then abjures (banishes) her from the Shreveport pack. At the end of this book, Sookie kills Debbie in self-defense. Alcide notes Debbie's scent at Sookie's house and realizes that Sookie killed her, which would always stand between Alcide and Sookie as a potential couple. In the fifth novel, Dead as a Doornail, Alcide involves Sookie in the battle for pack leader between his father and Patrick Furnan.
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" Jay Cocks in Time magazine wrote that the Roches music "is startling, lacerating and amusing". The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau said "Robert Fripp's austere production of this witty, pretty music not only abjures alien instrumentation but also plays up the quirks of the Roches' less-than-commanding voices and acoustic guitars. Thus it underscores their vulnerability and occasional desperation and counteracts their flirtations with the coy and the fey. The result is not a perfect record, but rather one whose imperfections are lovingly mitigated.
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Hybert has suggested that his work explores ‘the enormous reservoir of the possible’ (Eyestorm 2007) via a deconstruction of language and communication. To this end he deploys a very wide range of media for the purpose of expanding the range of his creative practice, deconstructing language in order to present the viewer with puzzles. He abjures the coherent, instantly understandable, text and the consistent oeuvre in favour of a proliferation that reflects the fundamentally nonlinear character of cognition. This is art in the tradition of the Surrealist object and stream of consciousness.
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Matai Shang and Thurid unmask Carter's disguise and denounce his heresies, but the visiting jeddak, Thuvan Dihn of Ptarth, who is Thuvia's father, hotly defends Carter. Kulan Tith orders Matai Shang to deliver Dejah Thoris and Thuvia, but instead, he and Thurid take the women and flee to the north. After this treachery against his friend, Kulan Tith finally abjures the old religion and offers whatever help he can to Carter and Thuvan Dihn, but little can be done at this point. Thereafter John Carter follows them untiringly into the north polar regions where he discovers more fantastic creatures and the nearly forgotten Yellow Martians, who live on the north polar cap behind a ring-shaped ice barrier.
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Belknap, Michal, The Vinson Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy, ABC-CLIO, 2004, p 109, . Kemper, p 655. In his opinion, Hand wrote: > In each case they [the courts] must ask whether the gravity of the 'evil', > discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as > is necessary to avoid the danger.... The American Communist Party, of which > the defendants are the controlling spirits, is a highly articulated, well > contrived, far spread organization, numbering thousands of adherents, > rigidly and ruthlessly disciplined, many of whom are infused with a > passionate Utopian faith that is to redeem mankind.... The violent capture > of all existing governments is one article of the creed of that faith > [communism], which abjures the possibility of success by lawful means.United > States v.
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