Recant in a sentence

This is one of the angles we see — they were used as bait, so they surrendered only to recant their statements later.

But Vallejo police announced they believed the kidnapping was a hoax and asked Huskins and Quinn to recant their statements and apologize to the public, per ABC7.

If people, whether Republicans or foreign representatives, are prepared to recant and kiss his ring, he has demonstrated an ability to forget past transgressions.

Doing more is the BRF Way to make the other class of critics – those “who make comments about things they are not aware of” and “those who do not believe anything” recant.

I get that they may offer closure, and a chance for those affected to confront him, which is important, and I hope it helps them in some way, but do they expect him to suddenly start begging for forgiveness and recant his despicable beliefs?

The pope warned Luther to recant his errors within 60 days, lest he be condemned as a heretic and turned over to secular authorities for punishment.

I’ve been asked to recant the song and it’s like, I’m not recanting the song.

Regardless, the state apparatus is attempting to force Manning to recant her previous testimony in order to assemble new “facts” that can be used against Julian Assange.

With the media’s close monitoring of certain individuals, their missteps become news and an indelible part of the public record- even when they recant.

He said some things that he later had to recant.

In “,” for instance, he would recant some of his and Engels’s more brash pronouncements from the “Communist Manifesto,” like the idea that more exploitation coincides with more immiseration.

That kind of comment is disgusting even if it was a joke how could you recant something like that?” parent Jessica Spoonemore said.

The Nigerian President was soon forced to recant however when one of the participants asked about the trending video of the present Governor of Kano, Ganduje taking bribe.

After the trial on 8 June, several other attempts were purportedly made to induce him to recant, which he resisted.

A total of 21,475 citizens refused to recant their beliefs and were expelled from Salzburg.

Even Soviet music critics who had praised the opera were forced to recant in print, saying they "failed to detect the shortcomings of Lady Macbeth as pointed out by Pravda".

Found "vehemently suspect of heresy", he was forced to recant and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", forced to recant, and the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems was banned.

He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.

He was imprisoned for 11 years in a Baghdad prison, before being tortured and publicly dismembered on March 26, 922. He is still revered by Sufis for his willingness to embrace torture and death rather than recant.