deny an accusation

Classic Labour spin - denying an accusation that nobody is making.

In the conversation she found herself denying an accusation that the militants had been allowed to wage their fight from inside the library itself.

Other times, he would deny an accusation, then immediately reverse his position when the accuser reaffirmed the statement.

The guerrillas also denied an accusation earlier this week by President Fujimori that they were holding the hostages for ransom.

Schott last night denied an accusation made last week by Sharon Jones, a former employee of the Oakland Athletics who is now a college executive.

Yesterday, Mrs. Whitman denied an accusation leveled by Mr. Trump that her chief of staff had threatened to revoke his casino license.

The memory recoverers retort that such "perpetrators" are in a state of denial, that denying an accusation of sexual abuse is virtually a confession of guilt.

Earlier today, Mr. d'Aubuisson, El Salvador's leading rightist politician, strongly denied an accusation by the country's President that he was involved in the 1980 killing.

Then, Bryant admitted to adultery as he denied an accusation by a woman that he sexually assaulted her at a lodge, and some buyers felt suckered by false advertising.

The Paul, Weiss lawyers have denied an accusation made by Judge Pollack that they may have used confidential information from a client in order to make the conflicts motion.

Alex Kelly's father said today that his son denied an accusation of rape in the early-morning hours after he drove a 16-year-old girl home from a party in Darien a decade ago.

The attorney denied an accusation Monday by the Riverside County Coroner, Raymond Carrillo, that Dr. Daniels deliberately misrepresented the cause of Liberace's death.

The Kroger Company, one of the nation's largest supermarket chains, denied an accusation made in a television report tonight that it knowingly sold adulterated orange juice produced by a Chicago company.

In August 1998 he denied an accusation by Liberian President Charles Taylor that ECOMOG was planning to send more troops to distabilize the Liberian government.

Three leaders of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, denied an accusation by Ireland's justice minister, Michael McDowell, that they sit on the guerrilla group's seven-member command.

It was on Mr. Kupcinet's television show, for example, that Gen. Douglas MacArthur denied an accusation by President Harry S. Truman that the general wanted to drop a nuclear bomb on China.

San Francisco Giants outfielder KEVIN MITCHELL has denied an accusation that he raped an acquaintance at his winter home in Chula Vista, Calif., a police detective said yesterday.

New York Newsday, meanwhile, denied an accusation made Thursday by Lisa G. Robinson, a News spokeswoman, that two News delivery trucks had been deliberately rammed by a New York Newsday truck.

C5 Spat Over Honeywell Deal The chief executive of Airbus Industrie denied an accusation by the Boeing vice chairman that Airbus lobbied European regulators to block General Electric's purchase of Honeywell.

At the same time, the officials and aid providers denied an accusation by an advocate for the homeless that the plan was a scheme to remove homeless people from the streets surrounding Madison Square Garden in time for the Democratic National Convention in July.

As Solicitor General, Boyd was responsible for the prosecution of DC McKie after she denied an accusation by Scottish Criminal Record Office(SCRO) fingerprint officers that she left her thumb print at a murder scene in January 1997.

Soviets Deny Supplying Arms ROME, Nov. 30 (AP) - A Soviet official today denied an accusation by Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d that Moscow had broken its promise that no Soviet-made arms would reach Salvadoran rebels.

PAGE A22 Priest Denies Abusing Child A Roman Catholic priest suspended by the Boston Archdiocese denied an accusation that he molested a child three decades ago and, in a challenge to Cardinal Bernard F. Law, is refusing to step down.