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"recant" Definitions
  1. recant (something) to say, often publicly, that you no longer have the same belief or opinion that you had before

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Solve for X. We've had so many public figures promise their votes, then recant, then repromise, then double down, then recant.
At trial, lawyers were forced to recant in humili­ating ways.
Analysts who predict turmoil are warned to shut up or recant.
Mr. Hebert subsequently had to recant his false testimony and apologize.
We couldn't at some particular point after the season recant victories?
Instead, the defectors are expected to recant all of their views.
If that happens, I will recant my opposition to this bill.
But it wasn't the sole driving factor behind my decision to recant.
He was admonished in 20153, and later interrogated and forced to recant.
And she would recant the declaration she had made in the car.
It has been updated to reflect that Swetnick did not recant her claims.
A lot of survivors recant for reasons ranging from fear to sympathy to sexism.
The real economic dynamic of the Republican Party is: Spend big today, recant tomorrow.
He had to recant his discoveries, which caused him much anguish until his death.
You might say, 'This isn't worth it, I recant, it didn't happen, leave me alone.
Intimidated witnesses often recant their initial testimony and refuse to co-operate with the prosecution.
She apparently tried to recant her affidavit when interviewed by the independent counsel, Kenneth Starr.
She has said Cypriot police pressured her to recant her allegation, a claim they deny.
She agreed to recant her complaint when she received an undisclosed settlement from the Hollywood magnate.
In the fourth stage, having elicited her sympathy and softened her resolve, he asks her to recant.
"One of the reasons why people would recant is to regain control in the relationship," he says.
If they recant or "forget," if they disappear or refuse to testify, the case may be over.
Thus, I cannot and will not recant, because acting against one's conscience is neither safe nor sound.
As the Duke, Mr. Bowie made statements about fascism and Nazi gestures and had to recant those, too.
I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
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Far-right members of Netanyahu's governing coalition demanded that Golan recant and accused him of dishonoring the dead.
Domestic violence victims recant their testimony as much as 70 percent of the time, according to some estimates.
Officials again changed the story to say Bradford had brandished a weapon, only to recant the word brandish.
Prosecutors say Carpentino wrote to the girl from jail, attempting to get her to recant her statement to police.
In the last few days, one woman attempted to extort me for $103,000 only to recant her ridiculous claim.
Elsewhere, Sharon undertakes a trip to Puerto Rico, where she tries to convince Fonny's accuser to recant her testimony.
His initial apology didn't really recant his core belief, rather more the way in which he had said it.
A few years later, Catherine reportedly tried to recant and take Audrey back, but the hospital blocked the move.
In an interview, she speculated that Mr. Nygard had paid the Smith sisters to recant — a notion they rejected.
Yetts told NBC News that he believes Hellickson was under pressure from Jordan to get the accusers to recant stories.
They have falsely claimed to have watched drug deals happen, only to later recant or be shown to have lied.
There is no solid evidence pointing to the fact that Manning's team was at all involved in Sly's decision to recant.
UHS presented a letter, signed by the two nurses, announcing their wish to "formally recant, retract and apologize" for their statements.
Mr. Schand eventually brought in investigators from the New Jersey innocence organization, Centurion Ministries, who persuaded a crucial witness to recant.
Asked to recant his views during his trial, the monk spent a sleepless night wrestling about his life or death answer.
Sly did recant his story, after all, and Al Jazeera doesn't have additional sources to back him up on his core claims.
The Catholic Church was deeply offended by Galileo's view that the earth revolved around the sun, so it forced him to recant.
He suggested that his decision to recant his insidious "birther" claims against President Obama was an insincere attempt to change the subject.
"You're here today having to recant every single strongly held belief that you've expressed, almost," the committee's Republican chairman, Bob Corker, noted.
Think about Galileo standing in the dock of the Inquisition, forced to recant his belief that the Earth moves around the sun.
We can try to respond less publicly, at least at first: Give people a chance to clarify, explain, recant or apologize — privately.
It gets published and within three days he doesn't just recant it, he goes out on the road and starts shilling for Facebook.
Research from the George Washington University School of Law found that as many as 80 percent of domestic violence survivors recant their testimonies.
When Maggie confessed that the whole thing had been a hoax, the reaction was so strong she was forced to recant her confession.
In previous cases, people who have been detained in North Korea and given a public confession often recant those admissions after their release.
But its message -- about the indifference of the authorities, prompting a young woman to recant her initial statements -- comes through loud and clear.
On Chechen television, he recently forced a young Chechen man who had criticized Mr. Putin on Instagram to recant while jogging in his underwear.
Feeling an acute responsibility for the millions of deaths, Will returns to his father in hopes of convincing him to recant his life's work.
Hoover police initially identified Bradford, 21, as the suspect, then recanted and said he brandished a weapon -- only to recant that statement as well.
In one scene, Tish's mother, Sharon (Regina King), has flown to Puerto Rico to try to convince Victoria (Emily Rios) to recant her accusation.
But Taguba's clarification didn't put Paolo and Manases in the clear because Taguba didn't recant receiving the text messages, opposition politician Antonio Trillanes said.
A 2011 study conducted by researcher Amy Bonomi and her colleagues identified a five-part manipulation used by abusers to get their victims to recant.
In exchange for Mayer and her team trying to be more conservative with Yahoo's spending, Smith agreed to recant his board nominations at the time.
" The other was told that he had 48 hours to recant his story or face damages which could "easily be tens of millions of dollars.
He apparently made her recant an account of being kidnapped, and he owns a telecommunications company, though he also has henchmen to do his bidding.
Brock told Savage that if she did not publicly recant what she said in Strange Justice, he would release damaging personal details from the litigation.
"Graham must apologize for his remarks in 2015 and recant his atrocious attempt at a joke on Fox and Friends this morning," the statement continued.
Last week, the company, which had long promoted its six-year string of monthly sales growth as a sign of strength, was forced to recant.
He told his judges there that he could not recant any teaching of his that could not be proved wrong on the basis of Scripture.
When Hus, then Luther, said he could not recant, did he feel as if he were acting freely or as he was destined to act?
It would be just like Scandal to get someone to recant important testimony only to have that person die before they can tell anyone who matters.
The government also revealed an extensive and vulgar dialogue between the two after Credico began urging Stone to recant his testimony to the House Intelligence Committee.
In Chile, the Pope was forced to recant his dismissal of an abuse scandal involving a prominent priest and bishops accused of covering up his crimes.
Well, first admit that he was talking to the Journal, and then recant what he had told the Journal and then name the Journal's other sources.
They were arrested almost two weeks after the bodies were found and originally confessed, only to later recant, saying their admissions of guilt were made under duress.
She might be an embittered idealist who joined Cambridge Analytica after years of thankless and poorly paid progressive activism, only to recant after realizing she'd lost her way.
It's also not uncommon for victims to recant allegations, which just speaks to how tricky and complex the dynamics of power and control in abusive relationships can be.
Just three days ago, Kesha claimed that Sony would let her out of her contract if she were to publicly recant her allegations against Dr. Luke and apologise.
They force their targets to sign loyalty pledges and recant remarks deemed politically unacceptable, even if those words were made in the relative privacy of a group chat.
He presents it mostly straightforwardly, then has Sveta recant her statement of being abducted before killing her by blowing her up with a (presumably government-owned) space laser.
Mr. Trump had encouraged Mr. Comey to say so publicly, but Mr. Comey refused — in part because he did not want to have to recant if that changed.
Responses such as "Oh, c'mon, not Uncle Joe," or "But I thought Coach Johnson was your favorite," can spark doubt in a youngster's mind, prompting them to recant.
Other Westerners detained in North Korea have previously confessed to crimes against the state, though many later recant their confessions after being released, saying they were made under duress.
The next day, two top Zulu lieutenants pressured Savage to recant, issuing veiled threats in intimidating conversations that were captured on audiotape by Savage, copies of which I obtained.
His advocacy of the heliocentric theory earned him mockery, censure and, in 1633, a trial in Rome, during which he was forced to recant before a jury of cardinals.
His advocacy of the heliocentric theory earned him mockery, censure and, in 1633, a trial in Rome, at which he was forced to recant before a jury of cardinals.
Although Galileo was forced to recant that the earth revolves around the sun, popular legend has it that he muttered "Eppur si muove" (and yet it moves) under his breath.
That evidence included confessions from Lamarr Scott, who has said several times that he killed Torriano Jackson, although he did once recant a confession in front of a grand jury.
Some years later, his girlfriend at the time, Marley Davis, befriended one of the prosecution's chief witnesses, a jailhouse informer named John Avitto, and persuaded him to recant his testimony.
Moreland then tried to obstruct the investigation by attempting to pay off one witness with $6,100 so she would recant previous statements made against the judge, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
She reportedly pushed back on some of the then presumptive presidential nominee's anti-immigration comments earlier this year, even urging him to recant them back in April, according to New York magazine.
"  Speier did not say how the Democrats would actually get the president to apologize for the allegations, but insisted that Democrats would "take action calling on him to recant and to apologize.
Police later issued another statement saying Bradford Jr. had brandished a weapon, only to recant those remarks as well, saying Bradford Jr. "had a gun in his hand" when police shot him.
Critics of Hebert note that he and another Justice Department attorney, Paul Hancock, were forced to recant testimony accusing Sessions of blocking a voting rights case in the southern district of Alabama.
Today, she took to Instagram to write about a new development in the case, stating that Sony offered her an out from her contract if she would recant her allegations against Dr. Luke.
Instead, in the following days, the team members were pulled into meetings with their bosses and pressured to recant their statements, according to text messages, emails, and arbitration documents seen by Business Insider.
Two years and millions of suicides after the discovery, Dr. Harber's estranged son Will (Jason Segel) returns home, hoping to convince dad to recant his findings to save the world from systematically offing itself.
Kalanithi died too soon to recant the insights that come with the gradual discovery of one's own consciousness, and his book is suffused with a proleptic nostalgia for a youth still in its efflorescence.
Married by then and known as Lauren McCulloch, she had recently discovered that Mr. Giuca had written a letter from prison to her father, begging him to ask her to recant her trial testimony.
Mr. Mueller's report details how, in June 2017, the president pressured Mr. McGahn to fire the special counsel and then pushed him to write a false document to recant what he had told investigators.
He held a private meet-and-greet last month with local Republican leaders in Iowa, where he lamented the plodding pace of Capitol Hill and declined to recant his past criticism of Mr. Trump.
But the lawyers expressed surprise last week at the president's assertion, telling a federal judge who had summoned them to a conference call that they would most likely recant their earlier admission of defeat.
He assigned one of his students, Sarah Hegi, to advise the family, and she told them that their argument would be stronger if Mallin agreed to appear in court and recant her initial testimony.
After Carey called the singer a "pedophile" on a radio show, he says, the singer and his team offered him money to recant his statement—an account corroborated by Bruce Kelly, the eldest Kelly brother.
This season finale did a good job at making ends meet, proving that love prevails, as well as grudges, and making almost every character recant their half season long plans at the very last moment.
She claimed the murders were done in self-defense, and that the men had tried to rape her—an argument she would later recant, although that may have been because she was eager to die.
She ran away only to return, filed charges only to recant — behavior that might look weak or mystifying, but Snyder reveals how carefully she was trying to assess the risks to her and her children.
They wanted the Thai governor to recant his critical statement and asked the Prime Minister or governor to say that the mini-sub would have worked and was a technically sound and a practical solution.
Zhang's lawyers were allowed to examine the case files last year, and said they discovered multiple forged signatures, and evidence of provincial authorities in Hebei pressuring Wang to recant his confession through mental and physical abuses.
"Forensic accounting is not afraid, math is not afraid, documentary evidence is not afraid ... We can tender that in court with no worry of recant due to fear from the community and the 'Ndrangheta," he added.
Mr. Trump's lawyers have homed in on his account of Mr. Trump's ordering the special counsel fired in June 2017 and later attempts to get Mr. McGahn to recant what he told investigators about the episode.
Once Johnny D. agrees to let Stevenson take his case, director Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12) shifts focus to Stevenson's efforts to get Myers to recant, and, like Foxx, Nelson commands every second he's onscreen.
We should consider him "heroic" because Bukovsky spent 12 years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and "special psychiatric hospitals," rather than cease his dissident activities or recant his condemnation of the Soviet suppression of basic human rights.
But the star witness who helped Chicago prosecutors send five innocent men to prison for decades — shattering families, betraying crime victims, and leaving the real killers on the street — told BuzzFeed News he was ready to recant.
Trump should denounce the divisive things he's said "He needs to really address all the divisive, hateful things he's said in the past and recant them, denounce them," protester Nick Truesdale told CNN in New York on Friday.
An expert medical witness, Dr. Nancy Kellogg, testified that photographs of the two little girls' hymens showed clear signs of trauma—a claim that more recent medical research has since demolished (leading Dr. Kellogg to recant her testimony).
Its first episode depicts a young Washington woman who is raped in her own home by a man she does not know, then shows how her town's police force systematically works to get her to recant her story.
Anyway, at first Cyrus is just desperate to talk to Tom and get him to recant his story, but that's proving difficult, since literally no one except the guy who ate his family wants anything to do with Cyrus.
When the true bully emerged—one of a pair of twins whose mother, Celeste (Nicole Kidman), received regular brutal beatings at home from her husband Perry and so began to mimic his father's violent behaviors—Renata had to recant.
Since going public last month, Mr. Baimurat has received anonymous telephone calls warning that his relatives in China would be placed into camps if he did not recant, said Serikzhan Bilash, an activist who helps ethnic Kazakhs from Xinjiang.
Appointed imperial legate to Bithynia, in what is now northern Turkey, Pliny was taken aback by how many Christians were there and decided to round them all up, relying on secret informers, and eradicate them or make them recant.
Despite the alleged recant, Eric Lee Roberts was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held on $1.5 million bail in the death of Nancy Moyer, who vanished without a trace from her Tenino area home in May 2009.
He said he had arrived at court ready to recant, but moments before he was called to testify, a public defender pulled him aside and warned him that doing so would open him up to perjury charges, and maybe prison time.
A final step toward freedom But the district court in Bexar County would not go so far as to declare them innocent, due to the lack of "hard scientific evidence," and because the other girl did not recant her version.
"But this is a pattern we've seen from senior-level Trump officials that has gone back months, where they deny these contacts or meetings with Russians until the proof comes out and then they have to recant," Warner continued. Rep.
The authorities knew they would have serious trouble if they killed him, and the Church gave him one more chance to recant, at the upcoming diet—or congregation of officers, sacred and secular—in the cathedral city of Worms in 1521.
An official working on the impeachment inquiry cited Mr. Mulvaney's admission during a White House briefing — which he later tried to recant — that there was a quid pro quo to hold military aid hostage for the investigations Mr. Trump wanted.
On the island to which Kichijiro brings the priests, a group of Kakure Kirishitan ("hidden Christians") live, practicing their faith in secret to avoid scrutiny from the government — especially Inquisitor Inoue (Issei Ogata), who will torture them until they recant.
In 26.33, at the Diet of Worms—an assembly called to discuss Luther's teachings presided over by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V—Luther was asked to recant his heretical view that men and women are saved by the grace of God alone.
" Bauerlein describes the increasingly common practice of treating students as customers who are always right, rather than offering new perspectives that might expand their worldviews: "If mentors are so keen to recant their expertise, why should students strain to acquire it themselves?
Over the phone, he passed on three demands made by the police: recant my kidnapping accusations against the authorities in Sichuan; withdraw my recent Deutsche Welle article relating to President Xi; and pledge not to write any commentaries critical of the Chinese government.
" Bloomberg has sought to recant on his past criticism of Dodd-Frank despite insisting in 2014 that it would prevent banks from making enough money to "provide the financing that this country and this world needs to create jobs and build infrastructure.
After Khashoggi spurned Mohammed bin Salman's attempt to reconcile the Saudis probably decided to snatch Khashoggi, return him to the kingdom, and pressure him to publicly recant, similar to what they did in 2017 by forcing Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to resign on television.
Senator Kelly Ayotte, the Republican up for re-election in New Hampshire, demonstrated the vise she is in this week when she said at a debate that Mr. Trump would represent a good role model for children, only to recant a few hours later.
But so far, there is no sign of the arch-Remainers doing so: Too many still believe that all that's needed is another lecture on the horror of Brexit and the Leavers (poor, simple-minded folk) will finally realize how stupid they've been and recant.
On Monday, both men walked into a packed courtroom to hear the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., ask a judge in State Supreme Court to vacate their convictions based on newly discovered DNA evidence and the woman's decision to recant her testimony.
"Yes, with two conditions, however: that they keep a signed but undated letter of resignation in their desk office (as I did when I was in government), and that they not recant a word of what they have said thus far," Cohen wrote. Rep.
"It's also a continuing pattern that we've seen since the election of Trump campaign and Trump administration officials who have conveniently forgotten meetings with Russians, only when they are then presented with evidence they have to recant and acknowledge those kind of meetings," the Virginia Democrat said.
This limited series, based on a real case, follows the story of Marie (Kaitlyn Dever), a young woman in Washington State who reports that she has been sexually assaulted by a home intruder, only to recant later after detectives investigate and believe that she made up the events.
I would also suggest that the media professionals covering the event — who often treat Trump more like groupies at an Elvis Presley concert than professional journalists — directly ask Trump whether he is willing to recant, retract and apologize for his insult of American POWs earlier in the campaign.
" Asked about Northam's walkback, Richard Cullen, a partner at McGuireWoods, told reporters on Wednesday that "the best we can conclude is that (Northam) erred on the side of caution initially, and immediately regretted not having denied, and then, in his mind, tried to recant or correct the record the next day.
Indeed, if Clinton truly wanted to stick it to her critics and make them eat crow, she could smilingly step aside, temporarily, and make it clear that she will formally resume power and take back the reins under the 25th Amendment only if her critics themselves formally recant and ask her -- beg her!
I have several tattoos, and there's a tattoo I'm thinking of getting, and I don't know if this story is correct but it's when Galileo, he had to recant all his correct things about the universe, and I'm sure it's just a fake story just like the eBay Pez dispenser story was fake.
We find it more likely that only Zach Smith met with Coach Meyer in 2009, and that Courtney Smith likely did not recant her allegations of abuse at that time to Urban or Shelley Meyer, although it is clear that Courtney Smith decided not to pursue charges and that none were ever filed.
Once presciently interested in climate change—the scientist Thatcher had organized an early conference, in 1989, devoted to "Saving the Ozone Layer," and a subsequent seminar at which she sat with the environmentalist James Lovelock—she appeared to recant it all in the book "Statecraft" (2002), a dull collection of right-wing speeches and anecdotes.
I think we're up to, like, a dozen people — sometimes people like [White House press secretary Sean] Spicer and others, who've made one set of explanations about not meeting with Russians or the reason [former FBI Director James] Comey has been fired — that have all had to then, when evidence came out ... recant and/or amend their papers.
Rose also denied Dowd's allegations, and subsequently sued Dowd for defamation, claiming that the defense lawyer had long shown a bias against Rose in previous interviews; that he refused to recant the statutory rape statements when given the chance in private; and that Rose lost a $250,000 endorsement deal with Skechers footwear as a result of Dowd's comments.
Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE by relying on recent claims of a discredited former U.S. Justice Department civil rights lawyer, Gerald Hebert, who 2628 years ago had to recant false testimony about Sessions.
Just a few months ago, DNC chair Tom Perez was forced by pro-abortion rights donors and activists to recant party support for Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE-endorsed Nebraska mayoral candidate Heath Mello.
The new policy has been in the works ever since The Times published (and then had to recant major parts of) two articles within six months that were based on anonymous sources: One reported that the Justice Department had been asked to do a criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton's email practices; another described the supposedly out-in-the-open social media support for jihad by one of the San Bernardino killers.
While Mr. Meyer told Ohio State investigators that in 2009 the Smiths had met with him, and that Courtney Smith had said Mr. Smith had not hit her, the report could not corroborate such statements and concluded: "We find it more likely that only Zach Smith met with Coach Meyer in 2009, and that Courtney Smith likely did not recant her allegations of abuse at that time to Urban" or his wife, Shelley Meyer.

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