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Recent Examples of apostatizeSavannah's mom left the church in 2015, when leaked official documents confirmed their policy of apostatizing same-sex couples.—Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 20 June 2017 The conundrum is one that has nothing to do with Rodrigues’ decision whether to lay down his life, but with his reluctance to apostatize, even in the face of others’ deaths.—Michael O'Sullivan, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017 In one of the more powerful sequences, three older men are hung from crosses positioned deep in the ocean’s waters — the thrashing waves killing them slowly for their refusal to apostatize.—Lindsey Bahr, Orange County Register, 6 Jan. 2017
Hamas members who renounce violence will be granted amnesty or safe passage, while those who continue resistance will be excluded from Gaza’s future governance.
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Morgan Phillips,
FOXNews.com,
13 Oct. 2025
Hamas has yet to accept key parts of that proposal, to include renouncing power and giving up all its arms.
The drama is set in the mid-1990s and follows a pivotal day in the life of Murphy’s eponymous character and his students amidst a world that has forsaken them.
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Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2025
But for the past few decades the message to young people was to urge them to forsake manual labor jobs for a college degree.
The council had already rejected Allied once before, months earlier, over settlements — including back wages — that the company has had to pay out to current and former employees.
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Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
17 Oct. 2025
Teachers, students, and parents alike rejected the $850 million effort.
As well as finding comfort on arrival, Smith is determined that those who move on do not feel abandoned.
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George Caulkin,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
The novel can get busy—Taylor introduces each of Wyeth’s studio mates in the first chapter, then all but abandons half of them to squeeze in more significant characters—but there’s a warmth in the overcrowding.
Staff at The Free Press are eager to start working with CBS News; reporter Olivia Reingold appeared on CBS News Friday morning to discuss her report that anonymous NYPD officers had been threatening to quit the force if Zohran Mamdani is elected New York City mayor.
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Max Tani,
semafor.com,
13 Oct. 2025
Apparently, many workers crash out and quit on the third Wednesday at the job.
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