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verbattack as false or wrong

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I can't remember off-hand if Paxo was one of the sneerers who impugned Jonathan's motives when he left the Major Cabinet to pick up the sword of truth and the trusty shield of British justice.
The Catholic monthly AD2000 saw this as part of a tendency of the media to "aggressively impugn the good reputation of distinguished persons on the basis of a mere assertion."
The amendment stipulated that Article 8 of the Court of Cassation Law issued by Law Decree 8/1989 be replaced as follows: (Litigants may impugn before the Cassation Court verdicts issued by the High Civil or Sharia Court of Appeals in its appeals capacity in the following instances: 1- If the impugned verdict was based on a breach of law or error in its application or construal.
'Hopefully, the members would realize that our role is not to impugn but get the factual circumstances that will really give us good basis whether she should be removed from office.
The under-fire boss said the force's legal team was never instructed to "impugn" the officer's integrity during the proceedings of the O'Higgins Commission.
that, in article, he have hoped to anything other impugn the Lord Brittain.
These and other misstatements of fact, tales, and quotes out of context are used to impugn the reputation of a public figure who dared to ask black parents and students to exercise a greater sense of responsibility.
But yesterday the BBC made it clear at London's High Court that it never had any intention to impugn Mr Wilkey's integrity.
His attempt to impugn olestra by noting that Stephen Glass once defended it suggests that logic is not his forte either.
Seeking to impugn the patriotism of those who challenged VMI's mandated supper prayer, Jones declared that "liberal organizations" are attempting to "take away the very freedoms that these students are willing to go to war to protect."
Many people may disagree with the views expressed by Dr Lewis, but to sink to the level of personal abuse as does Mr Fortescue, and - worse - to impugn the professional integrity of Dr Lewis is, in my opinion, outrageous.
In these articles we did not seek to attack or impugn the integrity of any of the above-named.
It would be wrong to suggest that the scandals impugn the character of millions of devoted Catholics.
When people impugn the outlaw credibility of the Sundance Film Festival -- which they tend to do strenuously and often -- they overlook a salient fact of the nearly 20-year-old event's origins: founded by sun-kissed movie star Robert Redford, and named after a studly gunslinger he once played in the hip-as-hell Hollywood western, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Sundance is only faux-outlaw from the spurs up anyway.
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