Denial
in sentence
376 examples of Denial in a sentence
During the early post-war era, Germany went through various stages of
denial
about the horrors committed during the Nazi regime.
What is particularly disconcerting is that central bankers remain largely in
denial
in the face of this painful reality check.
For example, Nazi ideology and symbols are banned in Germany and Austria, and Holocaust
denial
is a crime in 13 countries, including France, Poland, and Belgium.
Last year, the French parliament introduced a bill to proscribe
denial
of the Armenian genocide, too.
Last month, the British writer David Irving, who was jailed in Austria for Holocaust denial, had the bizarre distinction of defending free speech in a debate at the Oxford Union.
It is tragic to watch that force for good be subverted by
denial
and myopia.
The entire planet seems to be in
denial
about what is about to occur in the eurozone.
So, instead of realism and emergency planning, we get
denial
and more happy talk.
Laws criminalizing the
denial
of the Holocaust or other crimes against humanity – the most common type of memory law – were first introduced in the 1980s and 1990s in West European democracies that had been implicated in those crimes, including Austria, France, and Germany.
Some Eastern European countries have likewise prohibited Holocaust
denial.
Le Pen accused the mainstream parties of ganging up on her, describing their cooperation as a
denial
of democracy.
But this new world apparently confuses and repels influential people -- and their response is one of
denial.
We are in
denial
about scenarios that could cause such devastation that even one occurrence would be too many.
In fact, wealthy elites in emerging countries live in a state of
denial
towards their poor, literally ignoring them.
Rather than exhibiting enlightened leadership, Western policymakers have consistently lagged realities on the ground, with a bewildering mixture of denial, misdiagnosis, and bickering undermining their responses.
Optimists cheer the departure of the Bush administration and assume that the arrival of the Obama presidency, which unlike its predecessor is not in
denial
about the science of global warming, will unlock the prospect of a deal.
In one of the greatest doping scandals of the twenty-first century, Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France winner, was found to have used it after years of
denial.
For Soroush, however, the
denial
of human rights based on “a person’s beliefs or absence of belief” is undeniably a “crime.”
Or perhaps economics will remain a discipline that forgets most of what it once knew and allows itself to be continually distracted, confused, and in
denial.
If the next German government seizes that opportunity, rather than aping Premier Jospin’s
denial
of reality, a start will be made.
Once again, Europe’s national leaders showed themselves to be in
denial
about what underlies the eurozone’s economic, banking, and sovereign-debt crises, and thus hopelessly unable to resolve them.
Then, on election night, when the television networks projected Romney’s defeat in Ohio and therefore Barack Obama’s re-election, the Romney campaign, in a further
denial
of fact, refused to accept the result.
Of all of the Republicans’ unreal beliefs, their full-throated
denial
of human-induced climate change was surely the most consequential.
Holocaust Denial, Nuclear DenialWhat connects Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Holocaust
denial?
How should Ahmedinejad’s
denial
that Iran intends to pursue nuclear arms be judged in light of his Holocaust
denial?
Some westerners, while lamenting Ahmedinejad’s insensitivity, have struggled to minimize the significance of his Holocaust
denial
as the fulminations of a misguided fanatic (as if misguided fanaticism were an incidental quality in a nation’s president).
Holocaust
denial
is not an argument about the past.
The point of Holocaust
denial
is to remove the taboo now associated with the original crime.
As a policy, the Holocaust was premised on
denial
– the physical
denial
of any legitimate religious, racial, or political difference within Nazi Germany.
The means of this
denial
were the annihilation of offending populations – the Jews foremost among them – in a merciless attempt at social purification.
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