| She must curdle the milk, make Macbeth abjure his good qualities, if he is to act as she wishes. |
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| After a long and wearisome trial he was condemned on June 22, 1633, solemnly to abjure his scientific creed on bended knees. |
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| Thus, Muldrow cannot help but abjure spiritual claims to universal enlightenment. |
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| I want to look closely at the first lines of the poem, in which Smith seems to abjure any claim of authority. |
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| He alone of all men must for an uncertain time abjure this field of endeavour, however great his interest. |
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| The severity of the law was modified by a felon's right to abjure the realm if he succeeded in reaching the sanctuary of a church. |
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| Even while abjurations were in force, such a criminal was not allowed to take sanctuary and abjure the realm. |
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| If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission. |
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| And as the shadows deepen I light my candles and abjure the cold evening by gripping the picture and mouthing a litany of His name. |
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| He's been forced to abjure his most important achievement as governor, his healthcare plan. |
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| Haqqani invests great hope that a decision by Pakistan's military to abjure politics may correct these trends. |
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| To persuade Iran to abjure weapons, the United States will have to make some kind of deal. |
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| He eagerly concurs in the prince's vow to abjure the throne and marriage. |
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| Just as many modern restaurateurs think you should do without a cruet, some modish winemakers abjure oak, preferring to let the grapes speak for themselves. |
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| He would be sentenced to abjure the realm or suffer death as a felon. |
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| If the same offender is again convicted, he shall be punished as before and also abjure the city for a year and a day, as well as paying damages to any complainant. |
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| To embrace a purely formal approach to analogy and to abjure formalization entirely are two extremes in a spectrum of strategies. |
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| They must abjure inflammatory language, resist overreaction and collective punishments and stand up to radicals in their midst. |
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| Canada should return to the values that emphasize diplomatic solutions, and abjure violence. |
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| So any macro-economic strategy which seeks to reduce the incidence of poverty must consciously abjure, or mitigate, these effects. |
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| He has also been instrumental in initiating a Yoga competition, which purists would abjure since it goes against the grain of the underlying philosophy. |
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| Today's most interesting social practices employ the Pessoan heteronym and abjure the pseudonym. |
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| However, the entire region, including Serbia, must first abjure its pessimistic vision, which led Edmund Stillman to say that: The Balkans are exactly the opposite of easy optimism. |
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| I gather that the present American system does not contain the realism which you believe ought to attend national drug policies, and that it does not abjure the use of myths as a basis for those polices. |
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| A minor cannot abjure without the consent of his father and mother. |
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