They asked him to publicly retract the story, and Shahzad refused to do that, too.

But within days, she publicly retracted that statement and said she had given it under pressure from the District Attorney's office.

Rupp had to publicly retract five publications from the previous year.

If you did, we urge you to publicly retract them.

Bohley spent several days in prison because she would neither publicly retract the statement nor pay a fine.

Ginzburg was offered an end to all criminal proceedings against him in return for his explicitly and publicly retracting his offensive statements about Arabs.

"I hereby publicly retract anything and everything I have ever said about inland sailing," he said.

He had ordered me, as if he could, to demonstrate more sensitivity to African-Americans and publicly retract my bigoted professional assessments.

Sarsenbaev was also ordered to publicly retract comments he made in an interview with the opposition newspaper Respublika.

Administration officials have yet to explain why neither Mr. Bush nor any other official publicly retracted that charge once it was shown to be questionable.