Object

• responsibility: Particularly dangerous, it seems designed to allow the White House to disavow responsibility for events in Iraq.

• knowledge: The kind where if you're caught, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

• intention: The Taliban have repeatedly disavowed any intention of taking their struggle beyond these frontiers.

• liability: I disavow any potential liability for the contents of this document.

• claim: I must disavow all claim to being an Arthurian expert.

• violence: At various times the ALF has disavowed violence to the person.

Used with why or when

• what: A person does not step out or belief except by disavowing what brought him into it.

Modifying Another Word

• expressly: Under Clause 6C of the Hire Agreement Anglo expressly disavows an agency relationship.

• publicly: The Central Intelligence Agency has publicly disavowed the likelihood of Mr Hussein's handing over his most prized weapons to Osama bin Laden.

• not: Comrade Thaelmann and others say: " We must come back with theses which do not disavow us.

• repeatedly: The Taliban have repeatedly disavowed any intention of taking their struggle beyond these frontiers.