Sentence examples for * renounced in from inspiring English sources

The Mormon Church contends that the show glamorizes a practice it renounced in 1890.

Accordingly, the islands were not included in the territory that Japan renounced in accordance with the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty after World War II.

Instruction in independent thinking had been renounced in favour of "the ubiquitous encouragement of everyone's so-called 'individual personality'" – a trend Nietzsche viewed as "a mark of barbarity".

Having put it behind him, he went back not to Broadway — which he had generally renounced in the 1960s — but to ballet.

In Germany, Matthias Erzberger, a Roman Catholic member of the Reichstag, had, on July 6 , 1917 proposed that territorial annexations be renounced in order to facilitate a negotiated peace.

The current American ambassador, James F. Jeffrey, has said he has seen no evidence that the Sadrists have renounced, "in practice or in theory," the idea of using force against opponents.

Ngugi renounced writing in English in July 1977 at the Nairobi launch of Petals of Blood, saying that he wished to express himself in a language that his mother and ordinary people could understand.

The fundamentalist community here evolved after members of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City officially renounced polygamy in 1890.

Leaders of the group, the Gamaa al-Islamiyya, who were held in Egyptian prisons renounced violence in 1997, a few months before members carried out a terrorist attack near Luxor, in central Egypt, that killed 58 tourists and four Egyptians.

Though the Brotherhood had renounced violence in the 1970s, in 1981 members of a jihadi group had assassinated President Sadat during a military parade barely 500m from where the Rabaa camp now stood.

The group has not carried out an attack in years, and says it renounced violence in 2001.