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Allowing companies to choose their Sox compliancy would satisfy both adorers and abhorrers of the law.

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The conquerors found in Babylon an oppressed race -- like themselves, abhorrers of idols, and professors of a religion in which to a great extent they could sympathize.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

The host of petitions which Shaftesbury procured from the counties was answered by a counter-host of addresses from thousands who declared their "abhorrence" of the plans against the Crown; and the country saw itself divided into two great factions of "petitioners" and "abhorrers," the germs of the two great parties which have played so prominent a part in our political history from the time of the Exclusion Bill.

History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860

If, indeed, there was proof, either external or internal, that they had become reformed characters, and, of course, abhorrers of deceit, we might value their self-condemnation as evidence of truth; for what man of moral feeling would proclaim that he had been an habitual liar, except conscious that the avowal was incumbent on him to substantiate the truth?

The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821

Not content with this decision, which seems justifiable in a mixed monarchy, they fell with the utmost violence on all those abhorrers, who in their addresses to the crown, had expressed their disapprobation of those petitions.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. David Hume 1743

Thus the nation came to be distinguished into petitioners and abhorrers.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. David Hume 1743

Great numbers of the abhorrers, from all parts of England, were seized by order of the commons, and committed to custody.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. David Hume 1743

The representatives of the lower clergy railed at for disputing the power of the bishops, by the known abhorrers of episcopacy; and abused for doing nothing in their convocations, by those very men who helped to bind up their hands.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706

Again, apostatizing persons are counted abhorrers of God (Zech 11: 8).

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

They would take care, they said, to choose representatives who should no more endure those who had been for the Exclusion Bill, than the last parliament had the abhorrers of the association; and thus not only endeavoured to keep up his majesty's resentment against a part of their fellow-subjects, but engaged themselves to imitate, for the purpose of retaliation, that part of the conduct of their adversaries which they considered as most illegal and oppressive.

History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second Charles James Fox 1777