Eisenhower refused, saying privately "nothing would please him McCarthy more than to get the publicity that would be generated by a public repudiation by the President."

Nobody deserved this kind of public repudiation.

I felt I was about to be forced into some public repudiation of my childhood beliefs, and I shrank from it.

That is his first public repudiation of the violence and an indication that the Palestinian leader may be trying to steer the conflict back to the negotiating table.

They were only expelled from the choir - pretty mild, I would say, given their very public repudiation of church teaching.

But the results, many Algerians agreed, constitute a wide public repudiation of the party's authority and of its right to continue to govern.

Another was for freedom in return for his public repudiation of armed struggle against white rule.

Since the public repudiation of Dr. Glueck's Pediatrics paper last week, scientists have wondered about the validity of some of his 379 other scientific papers.

As a public repudiation of the plonked poster, it is appended to the end of one's reply (or may constitute the entire reply).

Harry is given a white feather by four of his friends, a public repudiation.