(a.) To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of.
(a.) To escape from; to avoid.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is a man who eschews personal publicity and interviews, prompting him to be once described as Britain's answer to the late Howard Hughes, though his love of a night out proves he is no recluse.
(2) In line with his modest and humble public image, Francis exhibits a strong taste for Italian neorealist cinema, which eschewed Hollywood razzle-dazzle and told morally powerful stories set among the working class.
(3) While each is moving forward to develop strategies and programs suited to its circumstances, all eschew the bunker mentality that comes to mind in tough times.
(4) He sais: This is the key proposal and it eschews the learning from all other governance models outside those of the Plc.
(5) First off, unlike Bob Bradley, Klinsmann has favored a 4-3-2-1 Christmas tree formation that eschews width for possession.
(6) LGBT-friendly cities, hotels, restaurants and clubs: readers’ travel tips Read more Some 60,000 people descend on the spa town of Lisdoonvarna every year in September and October, eschewing dating apps and Match.com for a more traditional, personal approach.
(7) A native Chicagoan and Harvard graduate, Garland excelled in private law but chose to eschew fat salaries for the less lucrative but arguably more exciting world of public criminal prosecutions.
(8) Curettage with examination of curettings or documentation of falling hCG can be used to prevent unnecessary laparoscopies in patients undergoing spontaneous abortions and can make possible definitive diagnosis and medical treatment of EP completely eschewing anesthesia and surgery.
(9) Eschewing the usual political reactions, Mensch issued a press release.
(10) Without legislation to back this up, however, too many will eschew their moral responsibilities.
(11) The current assumption seems to be that the world can have a rising population, ever-higher per capita meat consumption, devote less land to food production to help hit climate change targets and eschew the advances in science that might increase yields.
(12) Secondly, the problems concerning usage of embryologic terms can be easily circumvented by eschewing all embryologic considerations in naming these malformations.
(13) This essay eschews reductionist, dualist, and identity-theory attempts to resolve this problem, and offers an ontology--"monistic dual-aspect interactionism"--for the biopsychosocial model.
(14) Most of Chibana's music eschews the sanshin and other traditional instruments, but his background looms large, he said.
(15) Opinion polls suggest Obama's campaign promise to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan remains popular among the US public, but his last-minute decision to eschew military intervention in Syria and apparent impotence in the face of Russian aggression in Crimea are giving growing ammunition to conservative critics who say US deterrence has lost credibility and will herald a new era of instability in the world.
(16) He could even eschew both sides and sit his party on the crossbenches.
(17) David Alexander, analyst at retail researcher Conlumino, applauded Primark’s strategy of focusing on “one corner of the USA, eschewing prime locations like Manhattan, to ensure that it meets consumer expectations in the States head-on before rolling out nationwide”.
(18) And beautiful Beyoncé tells us that since becoming a mother, she eschews big primping routines, opting for "no make-up, just sunglasses and lip gloss".
(19) It's impossible to imagine, say, a believable political drama coming out this autumn that eschews ferocious use of Twitter; anything scheduled for spring that doesn't foreguess the next big "phone thing".
(20) The film-maker has already signalled he will eschew the CGI-generated environments seen in the unloved prequel series of movies in favour of real sets.
Repudiate
Definition:
(v. t.) To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
(v. t.) To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
(v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus the data were unable to repudiate earlier evidence regarding the significance of the private fee-for-service framework in predicting affective behavior.
(2) The first official repudiation of Stalinism came in Nikita Khrushchev's now celebrated speech to a closed session of the 1956 Communist party congress.
(3) On Monday, Trump, who leads opinion polls in the race to be the Republican nominee for president in an election in November next year, called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States , in comments widely repudiated by other US politicians.
(4) Both of which the Australian government is slowly but surely repudiating.
(5) And for a country founded on the repudiation of history, they were all, of course, obsessed with the weight of the past.
(6) The predictive values of gain or output may be inferred from current research and the Powell & Tucker paper confirms the previous work rather than repudiates it.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On Thursday morning, Hilary Benn pays tribute to the RAF as UK airstrikes on Syria begin Unlike his father, Hilary did not repudiate the experience, though he is humble enough to acknowledge errors.
(8) Senators should insist that Comey explain his role during the Bush era and repudiate policies he endorsed on torture, indefinite detention, and illegal surveillance.
(9) Susan Collins announced she would not vote for Donald Trump on Monday, joining the few other Republican senators to repudiate the party’s nominee for president.
(10) Following weeks of angry internal debate about how to handle the issue, Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, on Friday issued a strongly worded complaint about "disturbing new tactics" and called on the Iranian government "to repudiate the actions of its officials".
(11) The Warner suit states: "Because of the repudiation, Warner has not entered into license agreements for online games and casino slot machines in connection with The Hobbit – a form of customary exploitation it previously had utilised in connection with the Lord of the Rings trilogy – which has harmed Warner both in the form of lost license revenue and also in decreased exposure for the Hobbit films."
(12) For these reasons we repudiate the view that organ sharing is now superfluous.
(13) For the primiparous, then infertile women because of hypopituitarism, the repudiation becomes often the only social way of life.
(14) On Tuesday he said he would issue an apology to the Chinese embassy and repudiate Palmer’s comments.
(15) This platform enabled us to win the confidence of the Greek people,” Varoufakis said, insisting that the logic of austerity had been repudiated by voters when the far-left Syriza party stormed to victory in Sunday’s election.
(16) 'An epochal change': what a Trump presidency means for the Asia Pacific region Read more Most explosive of all, the new US president has planted a trade war at the heart of his policies: a 45% tariff on imports from China and a repudiation of the Trans Pacific Partnership which was supposed to have been proof positive of America’s pivot to Asia.
(17) Medical personnel must carry out a whole complex of measures aimed at community involvement into dispensarization activities, promotion of population's readiness to follow doctor's indications and prescribed regimen and diet, to stick to a more active mode of life and to repudiate bad habits.
(18) The chances of the Greek public electing a government that repudiates the terms of the bailout is deemed to be high.
(19) In a calculated repudiation of the economic philosophy of Ed Miliband, who resigned in the wake of Labour’s devastating defeat at the polls last month, Leslie argues that during the election campaign the party failed to grasp the power of consumers.
(20) But some commentators regard Corbyn’s ascent and the defeat of “Blairite” candidates as a repudiation of his legacy and return to old Labour values.