Rolesets - deny

deny

deny.01 - turn down, reject

DENY-V NOTES: Member of VNcls conjecture-29.5-1. Comparison with 'approve'. (from deny.01-v)

Aliases:

deny (v.)
denial (n.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: denier
ARG1-PPT: thing denied
ARG2-GOL: anti-benefactive: entity being denied arg1

transitive, no benefactive

Earlier this yearARGM-TMP
,
the FedARG0
deniedrel
an application by Continental Bank Corp. to purchase Grand Canyon State Bank in Scottsdale , Ariz.ARG1
,
on grounds that Continental had n't fully complied with the Community Reinvestment ActARGM-CAU
.

deny an S

In affidavits filed yesterday in the Los Angeles courtARGM-LOC
,
Mr. Ross , Warner Bros. Chairman Robert Daly and President SemelARG0
denyrel
that such an oral agreement was ever madeARG1
.

ARG0 and ARG2 and ARG1

Lawmakers in MoscowARG0
voted to
denyrel
the Communist PartyARG2
its 100 guaranteed seats in the Soviet CongressARG1
, meaning Gorbachev and other aides might have to face voters .

deniable

deniable.02 - able to be denied

DENIABLE-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-6, relation to deny.01. (from deniable.01-j)

Aliases:

deniable (j.)
deniability (n.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: denier
ARG1-PPT: thing denied
ARG2-GOL: hearer

arg1

Nagoya 's Mayor Shintaro Ishihara uttered total nonsense : "
when the ' Nanjing Incident ' happened in 1937ARGM-TMP
,
normal acts of warARG1
are
notARGM-NEG
deniablerel
,
which is a pityARGM-ADV
, but the so-called ' Nanjing Incident ' could not have happened . "