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Перевод: recant

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Тезаурус:

1. The fact that the rector of the Aberdeen grammar school, Robert Marshall, was teaching Lutheran ideas from 1521, before having to recant in 1523, shows how quickly they had spread to Scotland; it was only four years earlier, in 1517, that the little-known Augustinian monk had first startled Europe by sensationally nailing his ninety-five theses to the door of the castle church of Wittenberg.
2. Lukcs (1967, p. 1), a Hungarian Marxist who was forced to recant his political beliefs under the pressure of Stalinism, once argued that orthodox Marxism was defined exclusively by its method .
3. Whilst More was Chancellor, heretics were sought out, and burned if they would not recant.
4. He was also ready, during the proceedings over Lady Chatterley's Lover , to go into the witness box and publicly recant his previous attacks upon Lawrence.
5. The churchmen published Galileo's recantation throughout Europe to demonstrate their power to make men recant.
6. Cardinal Glemp was persuaded to recant in meetings with British Jews who, to their credit and in contrast to many of their American compatriots, took the route of quiet persuasion rather than shrill denunciation.
7. Martin Luther, excommunicated by the Pope and defending himself before the Emperor, closes his statement with the celebrated words: "My conscience is taken captive by God's word, I cannot and will not recant anything.
8. They were given the chance to recant, they did so, and they went on with their work.
9. PLAYER: Lucianus, nephew to the king usurped by his uncle and shattered by his mother's incestuous marriage loses his reason throwing the court into turmoil and disarray as he alternates between bitter melancholy and unrestricted lunacy staggering from the suicidal (A pose) to the homicidal (Here he kills POLONIUS) he at last confronts his mother and in a scene of provocative ambiguity - (A somewhat oedipal embrace) begs her to repent and recant - (He springs up, still talking.)
10. He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters, protesting - in this case to the journalist William Archer - that "The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general, that it was immoral, that characters who recant their opinions come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk."
11. Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical, he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz.
12. Kulin abandoned Rome and embraced the Bogomil heresy, but was forced to recant a year before his death, under pressure from Hungary.
13. When the Islamic authorities discovered this, he was charged with heresy, refused to recant, and was crucified in Kano market place thirty years before a Christian preacher arrived in the country.