retractation


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Synonyms for retractation

a formal statement of disavowal

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La Redactrice/le Redacteur scientifique doit etre pret a publier des corrections, des clarifications, des retractations et des excuses si necessaire.
(245) La CJUE doit determiner si la pratique qui consiste a rendre accessible par un hyperlien les informations obligatoires (notamment concernant le droit de retractation) est conforme aux exigences de l'article 5 de la Directive 97/7/ CE.
Enfin, les commentaires negatifs sont la plupart du temps accompagnes d'une forme de retractation, valorisant presque toujours le quartier ou le rendant << ordinaire >> : << Ces problemes se retrouvent partout.
Cette greve vient en reponse a ce que les grevistes ont appele la retractation de la direction quant a l'application de plusieurs revendications professionnelles telles que la prime de danger et de depollution.
(43) He further decreed that anyone who pertinaciously rejects such a proposition and who does not make a retractation after being admonished by the apostolic see or the ordinary is to be punished with a just penalty.
Selon Hobbes, le contrat originel est un contrat sans retractation possible (23).
In so doing, Teske engages in a kind of Augustinian retractation (toward the end of his life, Augustine reviewed and commented on virtually all his previous writings and collected these notes in his work called Retractationes 426-7 C.E.).
This behavior could be explained by the strain-induced crystallization which could "lock" the chain relaxation and by the competition between chains relaxation and crystallization kinetics, as explained with the reptation and retractation times by Mahendrasingam et al.
The new draft directive limits itself to a uniform approach to essential' legal elements, such as pre-contractual and contractual information, right of retractation, early repayment and the annual percentage rate of charge.
When Jerry Falwell died, the secular media inevitably harked back to the time he blamed American gays and feminists for 9/11 (he later issued a retractation).