I know the poem; it's interested me, because I suppose of its complete repudiation of everything in Christianity, the idea of an imperishable soul, an afterlife, redemption.

He called the panel's conclusions "a complete repudiation of virtually every legal theory that the Bush administration has offered for its controversial detention and interrogation policies."

This was also a complete repudiation of the idea that the American public has the right to know what its government is doing.

But the plan falls far short of the complete repudiation of the old rules as the Bell companies, and the agency's chairman, Michael K. Powell, had hoped.

Despite troubled relations with the Roman Catholic Church, Richelieu did not support the complete repudiation of papal authority in France, as was advocated by the Gallicanists.

However, in October the half way house policy was abandoned and a complete repudiation was decided upon.

"Your complete repudiation of your past record makes our job very difficult," he said.

However, the decision was not a complete repudiation of the Federal judge's approach.

"It's a complete repudiation of what the Secret Service said," said George Stephanopoulos, a senior adviser to Mr. Clinton.