Denying Sentence Examples

What's the good of denying it, my dear?

He.d wanted to continue denying the words of his brothers.

Most cases were earlier tips as lately, the authorities were far more cautious with our information; often even denying a tip was involved when an arrest occurred.

In France, blasphemy (which included, also, speaking against the Holy Virgin and the saints, denying one's faith, or speaking with impiety of holy things) was from very early times punished with great severity.

The reading in public of his two treatises De Potestate ecclesiastica and De Reformatione Ecclesiae revealed, besides ideas very peculiar to himself on the reform and constitution of the church, his design of reducing the power of the English in the council by denying them the right of.

The statute De haeretico comburendo had just been introduced for the purpose of stamping out heresy, but it had not become law when Sawtrey was summoned to St Paul's and was charged with denying transubstantiation, with refusing to adore the cross except as a symbol, and with six other heresies.

President Jackson responded with a proclamation denying the right of nullification, and asked Congress for authority to collect the revenue in South Carolina by force if necessary.

In 1832 he was elected to the state House of Representatives, where, as chairman of a sub-committee, he submitted a report denying the right of Congress to exercise any control over the states.

On his side, again, the subtenant, by accepting that position, is estopped from denying that his lessor's title (whatever it be) is good.

It may be said that the author, while denying that wisdom (practical sagacity and level-headedness) can give permanent satisfaction, yet admits its practical value in the conduct of life.

He was a powerful preacher and teacher, who broke from Calvinism in denying imputation and teaching perfect freedom of the will, by which perfect holiness might be attained.

The mere retention of the same crystal form by homologous substances is not a sufficient reason for denying a morphotropic effect to the substituent group; for, in the case of certain substances crystallizing in the cubic system, although the crystal form remains unaltered, yet the structures vary.

The more cautious Cuvier adopted a view of the relationships of animals which, whilst denying genetic connexion as the explanation, recognized an essential identity of structure throughout whole groups of animals.

They blasphemed the Virgin, allegorizing her as the upper Jerusalem in which the Lord came in and went out, and denying that he was really made flesh of her.

Until corroboration was found in the Egyptian inscriptions themselves, not only were Manetho's lists in doubt, but scepticism had been carried to the point of denying that Manetho himself had ever existed.

On the 30th of July 1540 three Lutheran clergymen were burned and three Roman Catholics beheaded, the latter for denying the king's spiritual supremacy.

Similarly it only carried the doctrine of relativity to its logical conclusion in denying that there could be any absolute relativity.

After his resignation he was impeached for abuse of power as minister, but the supreme court quashed the impeachment by denying the competence of the ordinary tribunals to judge ministerial acts.

On this basis Bradley developed a theory of the Absolute which, while not denying that it must be conceived of spiritually, insisted that its spirituality is of a kind that finds no analogy in our self-conscious experience.

In 1 7931 79 6 he strongly criticized the administration for maintaining a neutral position between Great Britain and France, writing for the public press five papers (signed "Helvidius"), attacking the "monarchical prerogative of the executive" as exercised in the proclamation of neutrality in 1793 and denying the president's right to recognize foreign states.

Helmholtz also wrote on philosophical and aesthetic problems. His position was that of an empiricist, denying the doctrine of innate ideas and holding that all knowledge is founded on experience, hereditarily transmitted or acquired.

While they each have their own unique sense of style, there's no denying that they look great together as well.

Some of these divisions are mutually antagonistic, denying to each other the name of Christian and even the hope of salvation.

Denying any form of moral sense or conscience, he regards all the social virtues as evolved from the instinct for self-preservation, the give-and-take arrangements between the partners in a defensive and offensive alliance, and the feelings of pride and vanity artificially fed by politicians, as an antidote to dissension and chaos.

On the other hand, the mere unlikeness of any particular passage to the nine lines of the Hymn is obviously no reason for denying that it may have been by the same author.

This made Jackson Clay's lifelong enemy, and ever after kept Clay busy explaining and denying the allegation.

The question of Ali's right to succeed to the caliphate is an article of faith which divided the Mahommedan world into two great sects, the Sunnites and the Shiites, the former denying, and the latter affirming, his right.

It occasioned a long-drawn controversy between Pierre Bayle and Le Clerc, the former maintaining, the latter denying, that the Plastic Medium is really favourable to atheism.

While denying the possibility of an absolute method and an absolute philosophy, as contended for by Hegel and others, Trendelenburg was emphatically an idealist in the ancient or Platonic sense; his whole work was devoted to the demonstration of the ideal in the real.

The deists, differing widely in important matters of belief, were yet agreed in seeking above all to establish the certainty and sufficiency of natural religion in opposition to the positive religions, and in tacitly or expressly denying the unique significance of the supernatural revelation in the Old and New Testaments.

Rejecting miracles and denying the infallibility of Scripture, protesting against Calvinistic views of sovereign grace and having no interest in evangelical Arminianism, the faith of such inquirers seems fairly to coincide with that of the deists.

While agreeing with the Eleatics as to the eternal sameness of Being (nothing can arise out of nothing; nothing can be reduced to nothing), Democritus followed the physicists in denying its oneness and immobility.

From the point of view of Orthodoxy the English Church is schismatical, since it has seceded from the Roman patriarchate of the West, and doubly heretical, since it retains the obnoxious Filioque clause in the creed while rejecting many of the doctrines and practices held in common by Rome and the East; moreover, the Orthodox Church had never admitted the validity of Anglican orders, while not denying it.

One almost wishes that critical reasons could be found for denying its authenticity.

Denying the possibility of innate ideas, he asserted that morality comes by revelation, and is therefore not only certain, but the only real certainty.

This question of the relations between the English and the Scottish crowns had been raised a dozen times between the days of Edward the Elder and those of Henry IlL There was no denying the fact that the northern.

The ministry asserted, what no competent jurist would now think of denying, that parliament is sovereign; but they went heartily with Pitt in pronouncing the exercise of the right of taxation in the case of the American colonists to be thoroughly impolitic and inexpedient.

Let us grant that there is as much intellectual absurdity in acting unjustly as in denying that two and two make four; still, if a man has to choose between absurdity and unhappiness, he will naturally prefer the former; and Clarke, as we have already seen, is not really prepared to maintain that such preference is irrational.'

Without denying the actuality or importance of that sympathetic pleasure in the perceived or inferred effects of virtues and vices he yet holds that the essential part of common moral sentiment is constituted rather by a more direct sympathy with the impulses that prompt to action or expression.

In 1533, he published his Invicta Veritas (with the fictitious pressmark of Luneberge, to avoid suspicion), which contained an answer to the numerous tracts supporting Henry's ecclesiastical claims. After an imprisonment of more than six years, Abel was sentenced to death for denying the royal supremacy in the church, and was executed at Smithfield on the Both of July 1540.

In philosophy Buridan was a rationalist, and followed Occam in denying all objective reality to universals, which he regarded as mere words.

Agnosticism, Phenomenalism, Rationalism, Materialism all manifest the positivist spirit, denying what may be succinctly described as the metempirical.

Lastly, we may mention a few distinguished men who ran counter to their age in denying stellar influences.

In the one case we are treating the ego as one of the objects of experience and denying of it productive efficacy; in the second case we are dealing with the unity of the ego as a condition of knowledge, of any experience whatsoever.

By supplying arms freely, Russia is denying the West the political leverage of the arms embargo.

To deny the centrality of the human position is tantamount to denying God, a venture never to be embarked upon without risk.

Amos is a real charmer, there's no denying that, setting up the perfect mood for his fairly straightforward autobiographical story.

It is all part of Labor's leveling agenda of enforcing monolithic conformity, and denying pupils choice by pushing them into tertiary colleges.

Pointing me at the retailer is fair but denying any problems smacks of self denial.

However, there's no denying the sector is slowing.

In denying the depravity of the human heart, liberalism also ruled out the need for our spiritual regeneration.

Denying self isn't about giving up chocolate for Lent and taking up our cross isn't about enduring backache.

If phrased as a constitutional enormity denying the rights of freeborn English then the answer is also implied in the question.

A feminist herself, Cronin nonetheless believes that feminism has got itself into a mess by denying the findings of modern science.

Chippy were hit by that, and Taha almost made it three, only a superb fingertip save from Harris denying them.

No confirming or denying anything they're saying beyond the occasional grunt.

Irving was formally charged in an Austrian court, November 22, with " denying the holocaust.

Joy is not about smiling all the time or denying what is not joyful.

The queen denying the legitimacy of her own son!

In other words, they're denying the omniscience of God, that He knows everything.

Conversely, focusing exclusively on African voices and denying the existence of the Western epistemology would be similarly skewed.

Perhaps a quick pass would have been best, but I opted for a responsive double, showing values and denying 4 spades.

Perhaps they were denying the sufficiency of salvation for all men.

In the same treaty, she recognized the independence of Korea, thereby denying Chinese suzerainty.

In 1557, a shoemaker in the parish of Syresham in Northamptonshire was sentenced to death at All Saints for denying transubstantiation.

Then something happened, there was an amazing turnabout, and they have been denying it vehemently ever since.

The psychological boundaries of the traditional thinker formed a perspective of denying validity to the material world.

By simply denying the historical veracity of these reports, of course!

Or at this time of year by denying the virgin birth?

Or it may be described as denying (i) that the apostolic office is perpetual and should still exist in the Christian Church; (2) that all church power should be vested in the clergy; (3) that each congregation should be independent of all the rest; and as asserting (r) that the people ought to have a substantial part in the government of the Church; (2) that presbyters, i.e.

Henry Preserved Smith, professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis in Lane Seminary, for a pamphlet published in 1891 denying the inerrancy but affirming the inspiration of the Scriptures, was suspended in 1892 by the presbytery of Cincinnati, and was unsuccessful in his appeal to the synod and to the General Assembly.

In his defence, whilst denying that he had received the money and appealing to his past services, he did not attempt to conceal the fact that according to his experience bribery was an acknowledged and universal custom in public business, and that he himself had been instrumental in obtaining money for others.

Of course that was not Mill's special or conscious motive for denying divine omnipotence.

This writer, by his conception of the world as will which objectifies itself in a series of gradations from the lowest manifestations of matter up to conscious man, gives a slightly new shape to the evolutional view of Schelling, though he deprives this view of its optimistic character by denying any co-operation of intelligence in the world-process.

There may also be a surrender, either voluntary or by operation of law, which will determine a tenancy, as, for example, when a tenant is party to some act, the validity of which he is legally estopped from denying and which would not have been valid had the tenancy continued to exist.

His declarations during the campaign were vague regarding the tariff and unfavourable to the United States Bank and to nullification, but he had already somewhat placated the South by denying the right of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia without the consent of the slave states.

There is much in this contention that is sound, but Rieder seems to go unnecessarily far in denying altogether that Merswin wrote any of the mystical books.

In the " seventies " of the 19th century feeling ran somewhat high over the rival doctrines concerning the origin of puscorpuscles, Cohnheim and his school maintaining that they were derived exclusively from the blood, that they were leucocytes which had emigrated through the walls of the vessels and escaped into the surrounding tissue-spaces, while Stricker and his followers, although not denying their origin in part from the blood, traced them, in considerable proportion, to the fixed elements, such as fibrous tissues and endothelia.

In 1787 he was misled by the prince's ambiguous assurances into denying the marriage with Mrs Fitzherbert.

Reinach, therefore, supposes that in the Stone age which succeeded, pictorial art was banned because it had got into the hands of magicians and had come to be regarded as inevitably uncanny and malefic. This is certainly the secret of the ordinary Mahommedan prohibition of pictures and statues, which goes even to the length of denying to poor little Arab girls the enjoyment of having dolls.

Again, he might be inconsistent; now, for example, calling a universal a substance in deference to Plato, and now denying that a universal can be a substance in consequence of his own doctrine that every substance is an individual; and so as to contradict himself in the same treatise, though not in the same breath or at the same moment of thinking.

At the same time, in his later view, Plato avoids the exaggeration of denying all positive quality of pleasure even to the coarser sensual gratifications; they are undoubtedly cases of that " replenishment " or " restoration " to its " natural state " of a bodily organ, in which he defines pleasure to consist (see Timaeus, pp. 64, 65); he merely maintains that the common estimate of them is to a large extent illusory, or a false appearance of pleasure is produced by contrast with the antecedent or concomitant painful condition of the organ.

But this is far from denying the seismic economic shifts which themselves served to recast the political debate about slavery.

Seeking asylum is a basic human right that government policy is denying.

He 's not denying that he 's a sinner in need of forgiveness.

We become unknowing victims of this game by denying the deeper meaning of our experiences.

By simply denying the historical veracity of these reports, of course !

You could see it like two work colleagues denying they were having a relationship and dating.

The adolescent stage of life is an awkward one, there's no denying it.

If you obsess about making the original idea work and rationalize that you're demonstrating stick-to-itiveness, you're just denying yourself access to a better opportunity.

There is no escaping a bad score and no denying the benefits of a good score.

There is no denying that change is occurring on Earth.

Long lasting There's no denying that this is long-lasting eyeliner.

When you sneak a peek at Luminess Airbrush makeup kit, there's certainly no denying that this isn't your grandmother's foundation.

While airbrush makeup kits are definitely a pricey indulgence, there's no denying that the coverage is flawless.

There's no denying it; 12x12 paper is oddly sized.

There's no denying that scrapbooking can be an expensive hobby.

Ignoring the issue or denying that there is a problem essentially gives the person permission to continue.

Their research has shown that when dieters learn to recognize the physical signs of hunger, stop denying forbidden foods, and start separating food from emotional comfort, their weight will eventually stabilize.

Although the crystal meth side effects experienced by each individual user can vary, there is no denying that this particular drug can have serious and dramatic effects that can last long after the drug use has stopped.

Whether you decide to go with a fun cartoon print dinosaur or a more realistic dino style for your toddler's bedding, there's no denying the fun feel of this prehistoric pattern.

These stars aren't always on the list of best-dressed celebrities, but there's no denying that each one rocks his or her own sense of style.

There is no denying that Oprah Winfrey is the most influential woman in entertainment, and arguably, she could also be the most influential woman in the world.

While some argued that Lopez possessed more technical skill, there was no denying Smith's charm and grace.

However, he was criticized in October 2006 for making and later denying a homophobic slur made against fellow cast member T.R.

Despite the rumors about the status of her job at Teen Vogue, Conrad is denying that she was fired.

Love or hate Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus, there is no denying that she is currently a great role model for young tweens.

There's no denying that the promise of a naked celebrity photo or movie scene encourages fans to pick up a magazine or purchase a theater ticket.

Kidman was on celebrity baby watch denying pregnancy rumors, as it seems that most celebrities do these days, for a short time until finally confirming that she and husband Keith Urban were expecting.

Though the former Culture Club lead vocalist admits that he was angry with Carlsen, he is denying the false imprisonment charge brought against him.

While no one in Marie Osmond's camp is confirming or denying anything, many people have been speculating that Osmond underwent some plastic surgery.

Whether you choose to use a stone for healing purposes or simply wear it because you like it, there's no denying that gems are significant.

There is no denying the comfort a men's short sleeve dress shirt with a button-down collar, and that's the first and foremost argument in their favor.

There's no denying that these shirts are meant for casual wear in most cases.

Whether its guns in school or the selling of drugs, there's no denying it -- teachers are on the frontlines of our waxing and waning crime rates.

Under this law, employers are barred from denying benefits to older workers.

There's no denying the appeal of the Chloe line; stylish, glamorous, chic, it's all there.

There's no denying it, Dita offers exceptional quality of product, a factor that is reflected in both its price and in its celebrity fans.

There's no denying who they were targeting with this game!

If you have enjoyed other hockey games from this series, there is no denying that you'll fall in love with NHL 10 as well.

However, Sony is denying those reports, being quoted in Bloomberg Asia as saying that "there is no change in our original plans to release the console in spring 2006."

There's no denying that Nintendo has a lot of fantastic franchises that have entertained us over the years.

There's no denying that the iPhone has been a huge success for Apple.

This stage is usually resolved by denying or hiding homosexual feelings, repressing same-sex attraction, or taking on a homosexual identity.

Since patients are adept at disguising and denying the symptoms of trichotillomania, the condition may go on for years without detection or treatment.

Sure, they may not spark the same sort of enthusiasm as a hit song or a your favorite tipple, but there's no denying the allure of a strand or two of unexpected pink lacing its way through a mane of healthy hair.

I am afraid that the employer is capable of denying that they ever employed me.

You can also contact the U.S. Department of Labor at (866) 487-9243 if you are unsure of your rights or believe that your employer is wrongly denying you maternity leave.

Pregnant celebrities frequently wait until there is no denying that they're expecting.

With such a strong focus on females and - there's no denying it - great bodies, too, it stands to reason that the company holds annual bikini contests.

You can say anything you want about Ms. Simpson, but there's no denying that this girl has got style!

Whatever the reason you peek at the pages, there's no denying the quantity of beautiful women inside.

There's no denying that mens thong swimsuits offer plenty of styles and a lot of freedom to move and flex your body anyway you want.

However, there's no denying that this type of swimwear is fun to look at and fun to wear!

While these styles do lack a lot of fabric and material, there's no denying that micro bikinis are very sexy.

On a much more practical level, there's no denying that the galleries offer plenty of eye candy, so if you are interested in seeing models in swimsuits, then this might just be your site.

While the effectiveness of such pills is still being studied, there is no denying that a diet rich in antioxidants is a beneficial one.

The addition of an accessory or two can work miracles and instantly make just about any outfit look more intriguing, but there's no denying that shorts, tees and tanks aren't fodder for the most creative looks in the world.

Their purpose was to shape and maintain the posture and figure, but there was no denying that they were attractive and even sexy.

There's no denying the power of the tongue.

I know she loves me but she hasn't been able to forget her friend which she is not denying.

Going ahead with the wedding and denying your feelings of uncertainty will likely result in a newly married woman who might have great difficulty acting as partner to her husband.

You decision to grant that desire depends on your relationship with the niece, nephew, or cousin, and how you feel about denying them the privilege.

While there is no denying that the heart's romance perfectly symbolizes the impending union, many people consider the flagrant use of the shape far too bold and cliché.

Being technologically proficient is no excuse for denying your feminine right to loud pink colors.

While variety is the spice of life when it comes to accessories, there's no denying the allure of a reliable piece that carries you unfailingly from season to season.

Taken in its entirety, there's no denying the beauty of this look.

When it comes to romance, there's no denying that this is a sexy sign, although most Virgos might find that fact surprising.

People of this sign need to fight their battles and act courageously; not doing so is like denying a large part of themselves.

Even so, there's no denying Gemini's alert gaze and sharp wit.

There is no denying that Elmo is great fun and will amuse many children endlessly.

There's no denying that computers and technology have radically affected the way we enjoy new films, theatrical productions, live concerts, and industry trade shows.

Whether you love chick flicks as a genre or are just a fan of romantic comedies, there is no denying that these type of films certainly make their audiences happy.

In terms of psychic abilities, people can be their own worst enemies when it comes to denying when something happens out of the ordinary.

While plenty of speculation regarding the actual existence of this creature abounds, there is no denying the captivating nature of this particular legend.

There is no denying that babies are expensive, and free samples of baby wipes can help parents save as much as possible while finding just the right products.

There's no denying that soap operas have played an extensive role in entertainment culture.

If you're a fan of yoga, there is no denying that it can heal, and in a powerful way.

Regardless of your situation, there's no denying that the Canadian Auto Black Book is a respected source for car values.

Denying yourself an occasional treat is unrealistic and it can lead to binge eating in some cases.

Of course, there is no denying how great you will feel about having lean, sexy legs.

Whether you own an elliptical for home use or this is your favorite fitness club equipment, there's no denying the numerous benefits it offers.

No matter what type of bike you choose to ride, there's no denying the fact that cycling targets the thighs and butt.

While Greek culture retains many of its own attributes and history, there is no denying that the reign of the Ottoman Turks in Greece has left its mark behind, the most prevalent of which is the cuisine.

While the name itself leaves something to be desired, there's no denying that the Baby Doll with G-String Open Cup, available at NightmareFactory.com, is quite captivating.

However, there is no denying that, while a lot of men look great in a pink shirt or silk boxers, it's the rare man who is going to wear pink briefs, if they can even be found.

There's no denying that the luxurious feeling of silk panties can make any woman feel sexier.

That's not true, of course, but there's no denying that white satin bustiers and corsets paired with matching panties, a garter belt, and thigh highs makes for a classic bridal lingerie look.

Whether you've seen it on television, or only know of it through word of mouth, there's no denying that Cami Secret is one product that has people talking.

There's no denying it, silk feels wonderful and luxurious against the skin and that can be quite an advantage, particularly during the warmer months of the year.

Despite her early success, there was also negativity as a racy photo shoot in Rolling Stone magazine fueled her already controversial status as a sex symbol and had her denying rumors she'd had breast implants.

Cub broke up in 1997, explaining via handwritten notes posted on the Mint Records site that continuing Cub was denying them the opportunity to explore other aspects of their lives.

Although the incident is caught on tape and film, Hoffman took to denying it ever happened.

With their positive bent and popular style, here is no denying the band's success.

Although not all of Bono's plans get the thumbs up in academic circles, there is no denying that his star power is a great tool for bringing attention to social issues.

Whether you love Katy Perry for the fun colored jewelry and clothing she wears or for her music, there is no denying that she has become quite the household name like Gwen Stefani (who she is frequently compared to)!

Elizabeth Hasselbeck - You either love her or hate her, but there's no denying that Elizabeth Hasselbeck somehow turned a stint on Survivor into sitting next to Barbara Walters on The View.

She instantly became a household name, and whether you love her or loathe her, there's no denying that she is one of the best-known female political figures in the country.

You'll see the same addiction patterns in a "freaky eater" as you would in any other type of addiction, namely trying to hide the behavior and denying that it's become a problem.

While the original Star Trek series was ground-breaking, there's no denying that a number of the episodes were, frankly, real dogs.

Despite being common, there's no denying that age spots may be rather unsightly at times, too.

There is no denying that social bookmarking takes time, and is sometimes tedious.

There was little point in denying her attraction, but he'd best learn to keep his distance.

Howie always has the option of quitting and denying he's the tipster if someone comes close to revealing him.

There was no denying the sensation of sweat dripping off her body.

While he was instantly embarrassed and wore stunned look on his face, he saw no point in denying his activity.

He pulled her close and spoke into her hair, You are denying me nothing.

There was little point in denying the fact that she was watching Alex - and enjoying what she was seeing.

Dean felt cheated, doubly so because yesterday, a comp day off, it had rained as if St. Swithin was ticked off at the world, denying him the pleasure of biking the Pennsylvania countryside.

Alex did like to be in control, there was no denying that, but he certainly didn't dominate her.

There was no denying the pleasure in his amber eyes as he boldly surveyed her from head to toe.

Their armies thought they were mother and son, and she stopped denying Xander was anything else.

Giolitti scarcely improved matters by creating Tanlongo a member of the senate, and by denying in parliament the existence of any mismanagement.

With reference to Automathes he is much more reserved in his praise, denying alike its originality, its depth and its elegance; but, he adds, " the book is not devoid of entertainment or instruction."

All blasphemies against God, as denying His being, or providence, all contumelious reproaches of Jesus Christ, all profane scoffing at the Holy Scriptures, or exposing any part thereof to contempt or ridicule, are punishable by the temporal courts with fine, imprisonment and also infamous corporal punishment.

Persons denying the Trinity were deprived of the benefit of the Act of Toleration by an act of 1688.

An act of 1812-1813 excepts from these enactments "persons denying as therein mentioned respecting the Holy Trinity," but otherwise the common and the statute law on the subject remain as stated.

An extreme school, the Aktistetae or Gaianists (Gaianus was bishop of Alexandria c. 550) even held that from the moment the Logos assumed the body the latter was untreated, the human being transmuted into the divine nature; and the Adiaphorites went still further; denying, like Stephen Barsudaili, an Edessan abbot, all distinction of essence not even between the manhood and the Godhead in Christ, but between the divine and the human, and asserting that "all creatures are of the same essence with the Creator."

To deny the Linnaean, or later the Cuvierian, classes was very much like denying the Mosaic cosmogony.

Whilst it can hardly be allowed that Xenophanes, so far from denying, actually affirms a plurality of gods, it must be conceded to Freudenthal that Xenophanes's polemic was directed against the anthropomorphic tendencies and the mythological details of the contemporary polytheism rather than against the polytheistic principle, and that, apart from the treatise De Melisso Xenophane et Gorgia, now generally discredited, there is no direct evidence to prove him a consistent monotheist.

He now obtained a settled home for many years, and, taught by his numerous brushes with the authorities, he began and successfully carried out that system of keeping out of personal harm's way, and of at once denying any awkward responsibility, which made him for nearly half a century at once the chief and the most prosperous of European heretics in regard to all established ideas.

Had he not joined the conclave of autocrats at Gaeta, and, above all, had he not summoned Austrian assistance while denying that he had done so, in 1849, he might yet have preserved his throne, and even changed the whole course of Italian history.

The answer to dogmatic atheism, that it implies infinite knowledge, has been well stated in John Foster's Essays, and restated by Chalmers in his Natural Theology, and its force is recognized in Holyoake's careful qualification of the sense in which secularism accepts atheism, " always explaining the term atheist to mean `not seeing God' visually or inferentially, never suffering it to be taken for anti-theism, that is, hating God, denying God - as hating implies personal knowledge as the ground of dislike, and denying implies infinite knowledge as the ground of disproof."

Aristippus and his followers seized upon this, and made it the prime factor in existence, denying to virtue any intrinsic value.

Denying the existence of a deity, and refusing to admit as evidence all a priori arguments, Holbach saw in the universe nothing save matter in spontaneous movement.

A court decision denying the legal tender quality of the notes issued by the Bank of the Commonwealth gave rise to a bitter controversy which had considerable influence upon the political history of the state.

We have seen how anxious Aristotle was to be considered one of the Platonists, how reluctant he was to depart from Plato's hypothesis of forms, and how, in denying the separability, he retained the Platonic belief in the reality and even in the unity of the universal.

But however vague and uncertain might be the meaning of Hoadly in regard to several of the important bearings of the questions around which he aroused discussion, he was explicit in denying the power of the Church over the conscience, and its right to determine the condition of men in relation to the favour of God.

The author himself says that it is transfigured realism - which is realism in asserting objective existence as separate from subjective existence, but anti-realism in denying that objective existence is to be known.

But, while it differs from both in denying the reality of body, it differs from the former in extending conscious soul not only to plants, as Stahl did, but to all Nature; and it differs from the latter in the different consequences drawn by materialism and idealism from this universal animism.

But the idealists are only too glad to get any excuse for denying bodily substances and causes; and, while Leibnitz supplied them with the fancied analysis of material into immaterial elements, and Hume with the reduction of bodies to assemblages of sensations, Mach adds the additional argument that bodily forces are not causes at all.

Yet, in denying the importance of the emotions in moral judgment, he is driven back to the admission that right actions must be " grateful " to us; that, in fact, moral approbation includes both an act of the understanding and an emotion of the heart.

While holding this office he was selected to officiate as preacher when the friar, John Forest, whom he vainly endeavoured to move to submission, was burned at the stake for denying the royal supremacy.

Denying the continuance of the soul, Buddhism affirmed a continuity of moral consequences (Karma), each successive life being determined by the total moral result of the preceding life.

Accordingly the Pensees have always been a favourite exploring ground, not to say a favourite field of battle, to persons who take an interest in their problems. Speaking generally, their tendency is towards the combating of scepticism by a deeper scepticism, or, as Pascal himself calls it, Pyrrhonism, which occasionally goes the length of denying the possibility of any natural theology.

That there are gods Epicurus never dreams of denying.

Many people had been surprised to see a man of his genius and learning stooping to every drudgery, and denying himself almost every comfort, for the purpose of supplying a silly, affected old woman with superfluities, which she accepted with but little gratitude.

While denying all knowledge of the supersensuous, Mansel deviated from Kant in contending that cognition of the ego as it really is is itself a fact of experience.

But a serious blemish was his persistent separation of trees from herbs, a distinction whose falsity had been exposed by Jung and others, but to which Ray tried to give scientific foundation by denying the existence of buds in the latter.

The country was governed by fifty-six members of the Estate and by the dreaded commission of the General Assembly, for now the kirk dominated Scotland, denying even the right of petition to the lieges.

There is no sufficient ground for denying that these sayings were uttered by our Lord, but the fact that they were now first placed upon record harmonizes with what has been said already as to the more settled condition of the Christian society which this Gospel appears to reflect.

A disability charity has condemned Alnwick's high school for denying a 12-year-old boy a place at the school.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change.

Denying it seemed fruitless yet I couldn't bring myself to confirm what she was saying.

There was no denying that Brandon was a private person - or that he had confided in her more than Rachel or Julia.

There was no denying the contented expression on his face.

He told Lydia about Fitzgerald buying the vodka on the morning of the Fourth of July, denying it, and saying at the debate that there was liquor in Billy's vehicle when he, Dean, felt there wasn't.