All 10 Uses of
denounce
in
Half the Sky
- But Mukhtar's mother and father kept watch over her and prevented that option; then a local Muslim leader--one of the heroes in this story--spoke up for her at Friday prayers and denounced the rape as an outrage against Islam.†
Chpt 4
- Mukhtar denounced the Pakistani government for doing so and refused to be intimidated.†
Chpt 4
- Farooq continued to denounce the persecution of Mukhtar publicly, so we asked him why he risked his career to stand up for a woman he was supposed to have punished.†
Chpt 4
- People around the country were exasperated by the social conservatives' campaigns against reproductive health--the defunding of UNFPA, the denunciations of condoms and comprehensive sex education, the attempts to cut off support for family planning by aid groups like Marie Stopes International--and they were eager to do something concrete to help.†
Chpt 8
- After all, the apostle Paul wanted women to keep silent in church, and the early Christian leader Tertullian denounced women as "the gateway of the devil.†
Chpt 9
- The implication is that instead of denouncing sweatshops, we in the West should be encouraging manufacturing in poor countries, particularly in Africa and the Muslim world.
Chpt 12 *denouncing = strongly criticizing
- The United Nations took up that terminology, and international conferences were convened to denounce FGM.†
Chpt 13
- As we were driving through the Somaliland capital of Hargeisa, she pointed suddenly to a banner across the road that denounced cutting.†
Chpt 13
- Indeed, the international denunciations of FGM prompted a defensive backlash in some countries, leading tribal groups to rally around cutting as a tradition under attack by outsiders.†
Chpt 13
- In the 1700s, a few Quakers vigorously denounced slavery, but they were dismissed as crackpots and had no influence.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(denounce) to strongly criticize or accuse publicly
or more rarely: to inform against someone (turn someone into the authorities)