But you, who are doing the disowning, you know what you're doing.

In Roman law the term was also applied to the disowning of a family member, such as the disinheriting of a son.

The disowning, however, is likely to remain a symbolic act rather than legally enforceable disinheritance, given India's modern inheritance laws.

- and his guilt over past offenses, including the disowning of his former teacher at the dismal end of the older man's career.

This disowning of historical truth, the deliberate upholding of the crimes of the Communist regime, is humiliating.

He is the author of "Disowning Knowledge: In Six Plays of Shakespeare."

The main reason for the immediate disowning of him was that, his arrest could lead to termination of the CSK franchise.

His grandfather then ceremoniously crossed out Plath's name from the family Bible with a pencil, symbolizing the disowning of Plath from the family.

This leads to Luther Strawn's death, Henry (the youngest brother) being shot, the burning of the barn, and Abagail's disowning of Will.

Critics have almost unanimously agreed with James' disowning of Watch and Ward as his first novel in favor of the infinitely more substantial and impressive Roderick Hudson.

Lord believed that the reissuing of the SCUM Manifesto and the disowning of Solanas by "women's liberation politicos" triggered a wave of radical feminist publications.

Considering the accomplishments of the National Laboratories, he could see no reason for his colleagues' half-shameful disowning of all their own work in favor of a completely unknown culture several hundred million light years away.

Both of them joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) before Joseph Stalin's death but left the party in 1956 following Nikita Khrushchev's disowning of Stalin.

In 1954, she helped form the National Federation of Indian Women, the women's wing of CPI but left the party in 1956 following Nikita Khrushchev's disowning of Stalin.

There is absolutely no hint of the close relationship between Pip and his brother in law Joe (admittedly, rather unattractively portrayed by Shaun Dooley), which renders Pip's later disowning of him neither here nor there.

The French Government, recalling Gloucester's effective disowning of the Treaty of Picquigny and refusal to accept the accompanying French pension, would not have welcomed the accession of one known to be unfriendly to France.

This is quite an exceptional number for a city that is neither the main seat of a university, nor of a college, and has its explanation in the disowning of local monasteries, abbeys and convents during the French Revolution and the subsequent gift of their collections to the town.

This amounted to a disowning of the budget director, Richard G. Darman, and a public rebuking of two loyal friends, Nicholas F. Brady, the Treasury Secretary, and Michael J. Boskin, the chief White House economist, who had already made clear their intention to leave after the election.

RSF refused to do so on the grounds that such an oath "calls for the public disowning of the Irish Republican Army, Cumann na mBan, Fianna Éireann and a repudiation of the right of the Irish people to use force of arms to end British occupation".

From the overheated disowning of a congresswoman's convention-week fund-raiser at the Playboy Mansion to the excessive use of his wife and children as props to his lofty rhetoric about "values" (five such vacuous sermonettes in debate 2 alone), this campaign is not only holier-than-thou but preachier than William Bennett flogging a book of virtues.

He has yet to disown the university as a whole.

Even the children, if they were not brought back quickly, he might disown.

Even the few people he'd actually thought of as friends had disowned him.

My friends from the old neighborhood are going to disown me.

Save me from that part of myself which I disown.

Great arguments, old man used to keep disowning the boy.

I got a letter from my father completely disowning me.

As a result, all those people had to disown the land separately.

Harris has come out to his father, only to be disowned.

The plans were later disowned by the Government and abandoned.

"Would I might disown my own hands which trained her."

They must disown the action through writing to all members who could be affected.

You see, I prefer to own and disown it at the same time.

The rest of the family disowned him and he died aged just 51.

If necessary, he must even disown the son of his mate.

My parents would disown me if they knew I was dating a man that worked for them!

He was involved in several major scandals which led to him being disowned by some members of his family.

It was most unlikely that he would disown her now.

- enough not to be disowned or anything like that.

We own and disown our relation to it, by turns.

He'd know in seconds if my maker had disowned me.

As a consequence of this marriage his family disowned him.

Because of this, Liu is also disowned by his father.

Though reviews were very positive, he soon disowned this book.

There were also reports that her father disowned his daughter because of the marriage.