At thirty, I renounced that other me and I went back to being me".
I trust I may rely on my fellow parents to renounce that proposition.
President Obama could have made a clearer statement: "I call upon Hamas to swiftly renounce that section of its charter that calls for the destruction of Israel and state plainly that it accepts the existence of a Jewish state".
While some of my fellow skeptalytics, if I may coin such a term to catalog us, may be inclined to renounce that first clause altogether, thinking there is no need for faith, I am obliged to disagree.
They are both of these things, and saying so means that I am the kind of hypocrite who laughs and then, later, attempts to explain away or renounce that laughter.
Or will he renounce that position, and close down that category?
Now, three years after his retirement, he suddenly feels moved to renounce that courageous move.
There are, however, several million people who claim the right to choose, and who do not accept that their Palestinian leaders have the authority to renounce that right.
When society is pushed to the brink — by war, violence, or disaster — some neighbors renounce that identity, while others embrace it.
They derive their powers from the fragmentation of the continent, and one cannot expect them to renounce that stance for the sake of the wellbeing of the masses.
President Obama has renounced that approach.
