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denial

Denial is the act or process of saying that something isn't true or didn't happen. There is the complete denial that anything unusual is happening. The denial of something is the act or process of stopping others from having or getting it. The hospital's denial of care to the poor is unacceptable. The government's denial of her request means she will not be able to continue. If someone is in denial, they cannot accept an unpleasant fact. He has been in denial since the death of his father.

denial

the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges the act of asserting that something alleged is not true (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts (= abnegation) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others (= defense, defence) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him he gave evidence for the defense

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Simple sentences

She's in total denial about her husband's philandering.
I'm in denial.
Tom is in denial.
Some passages from the apostolic epistles may cast doubt on the Seventh-day Adventist doctrine of the denial of the immortality of the soul.

Movie subtitles

He would go away, leave England forever, live obscurely in a distant country. find peace in a life of humility and self-denial.
Well, I'm certain the government findings will be fair. and I shall abide by their official confirmation or denial.
Only the Son of God could have forgiven them as he forgave me for my denial of him.
Such love is good. for by denial and suffering the heart is purified.
In your position, it'd take 10 years of self-denial to set aside 15 million.
Longing and denial.
How can you not understand that this attitude of categorical denial can only make your situation worse?
No, not a denial, we'd look ridiculous.
I'll brook no denial.
Notice the wide sweep of colour, the balance, the brushwork, together with a certain denial of the accepted standards, the mock critical humour of the entire composition.
See? Clearly a denial.
Was this no denial?
Because this silence betokened. nay, this silence was not silence at all, but most eloquent denial!
This self-denial is killing me.
A denial now would create the impression that the crime was premeditated and.. Not self-defence.
It's a complete denial of life.
Oh no, not at all, though naturally I expected your denial but when you paid your visit to my rooms at Baker Street you carelessly left behind an another identification.
There's only one thing that'll pull the market together,.and that is a denial backed with suppression, total and permanent. - Hello, Mottram.
You can issue a categorical denial to the press.
Poverty and self-denial?
Clearly a denial.
Because this silence betokened nay, this silence was not silence at all, but most eloquent denial!
Hughes, why do you persist with this ridiculous denial?
Denial of what?
Self-denial's a great sweetener of pleasure.
Willebrandt included his denial.
Your whole life has been a celebration of self-denial.
Constantly in denial of a Therese who.
I see fields of agony, I sail seas of denial.
Through long years of rigorous training, sacrifice. denial, pain. we forge our bodies in the fire of our will.
Delaney's gonna issue some phony denial.
When the proletariat demonstrates. by its own existence in acts that. this historical thought is not forgotten, the denial of the conclusion. is also the confirmation of the method.
We must send a denial to that Groenevelt immediately.
What I can't figure out is, what is a real denial?
That's a non-denial denial.
Sloan expanded his denial to include his statements to the FBI. and to all federal authorities.

News and current affairs

Yet a majority of the Chinese population seems to support its' government's policies, including its brutal suppression of minorities and denial of democratic freedoms.
For years, Ellwanger published anti-Semitic books, such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as well as books of Holocaust denial, such as his own Jewish or German Holocaust: Behind the Lie of the Century.
Under any economic circumstances, denial of justice, and poor implementation of the country's laws, must be remedied as quickly as possible.
I used to believe that denial of Saudi complicity in the attacks reflected our distress with what happened on that dark day.
But despite the enormity of what happened, we remain in denial.
Of course, alarm bells have rung before in Saudi Arabia, but the ruling family remained in denial--deniability and repression being the political arts at which the al-Saud excel.
An Italian cardinal, who admittedly spoke intemperately, was accused of using the language of Holocaust denial.
Then again, many apparently sophisticated analysts may simply be in a state of psychological denial.
The longer the US remains in a state of denial, the more damage it will do to its interests and its global influence, which remains substantial, if more constrained than before.
Such denial is in no one's interest.
Responses to cyber war include a form of interstate deterrence through denial and entanglement, offensive capabilities, and designs for rapid network and infrastructure recovery if deterrence fails.
The world is only just beginning to see glimpses of cyber war - in the denial-of-service attacks that accompanied the conventional war in Georgia in 2008, or the recent sabotage of Iranian centrifuges.
Moreover, analysts should not limit themselves to the classic instruments of punishment and denial as they assess cyber deterrence.
For example, better attribution forensics may enhance the role of punishment; and better defenses through encryption may increase deterrence by denial.
In the American political lexicon, taxes are defined as a denial of liberty.
Yet denial is deep, and momentum is seductive.
Recent restrictions on microbloggers - especially denial of access to those who use untraceable aliases - have heightened concerns over Chinese Internet freedom.
Economic growth without social justice merely prolongs the denial of decent living conditions to the majority of Africa's people for the benefit of a tiny rich minority.
In 2007, when Estonia's government moved a World War II statue commemorating Soviet war dead, hackers retaliated with a costly denial-of-service attack that closed down Estonia's access to the internet.
More worrying is that many voters seem to be in denial about that fact.
Its first public statement came only after China issued a bland denial of the intrusion in response to Indian media reports quoting army sources.

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